And if there was any public debate about it, it'd be great to see the primary sources (en francais ou en angalais, bien sur).

While looking for a historical event that happened on my birthday, I came across this on onthisday.com, but I haven't seen this exact date listed anywhere else. Can anyone confirm or deny if this is true?

It seems to me like it would be easier for the Allies to supply a landing force there and open a new front like Stalin wanted than France where they were relatively close to the heart of Nazi-occupied Europe. Since as I understand Norway provided a lot of ore that was needed for the war effort it would be a worthwhile place to retake and it would be good for launching shorter range bombing runs on Berlin and such. Also I would imagine since the Reich had to use it's relatively small fleet to move soldiers and material back and forth that Allied submarines would have relative ease cutting their supply lines.

Well you see the title. I was browsing a kids book on history (My mothers a primary school teacher and I was just flicking through their kids books to pass the time) and there was this little factoid about the Cantabrian War that made me raise my eyebrows.

It took Caesar about 8 years to conquer all of Gaul, and Claudius only used about 4 legions and a similar amount of auxiliaries to invade Britiain.

So who exactly were these Iberians and can be attribute anything that helped to describe how they were so successful. This seems to have been a significant military campaign yet there doesn't seem to be that much information about it.

I've never heard of any triumphs for their defeat, monuments to its success or even the name of the Iberian leaders.

What came before and after? Why did communities stop using them as punishment?

1. How insane do my fellow villagers think I am? Am I even likely to draw support for my plan?

2. Assuming we do surrender, how likely is it the English will kill us anyway on general principal?

3. Assuming they don't kill us (maybe the knight commanding them is in a good mood today or the local priest convinces them killing us would be the mortal sin of murder), how likely are we to die of exposure or starvation over the next year because we have EDIT: no houses, no food stores, no livestock, and no money?

4. What kind of repercussions might we face from our own countrymen? Could we be arrested and executed for betraying our local noble or showing cowardice in the face of the enemy? I know about the Count of Armagnac being rebuked by the Constable of France for showing cowardice when he holed up in his castle rather than take the fight to the enemy but he was a military leader and my hypothetical villager is not.

As I understand it, the Byzantine Empire is a historian's label. But I wondered if western Europeans wouldn't call it the Roman Empire, because to them that was the Holy Roman Empire. So did they call it the Eastern Roman Empire? The Greek Empire? Something else?

Simple enough question, I think. What was the logic for making participation in ROTC mandatory at so many US colleges and universities in the late 19th to mid-20th century?

It seems like they'd be more or less the same, from the point of view of a layman.

I want to read a general description of that independence. Nothing too in-depth.

I've read about the opening of the Coliseum in Rome where they had thousands of animals killed and I was wondering how they actually captured them for transit to Rome.

If I were a typical mercenary captain, would I just travel with all my belongings from place to place like a nomad? Would there be a place that you could place your savings to go after you became too old to fight?

My university has year long introductions to French, German, Italian and Spanish and I thought it might be useful to know one of these for reading foreign works. E.g. last year I had trouble with an essay on the ancient understanding of depression because a lot of the scholarship is in German. So would German be the most useful or is there quite a lot of French/Italian scholarship on Rome that I'd be missing out on?

Thanks for your help!

It seems like Kim Il-Sung went the way of self-reliance as a nation, but as I understand it, it was far from communism. Surely the whole point of N Korea being soviet backed and S Korea being US backed was the war of ideologies, especially during the Cold War.

Why didn't the Soviet Empire use the opportunity at the end of WWII to set up a proxy soviet empire in Korea?

I've always wondered about this case seeing as many Greek people I've met tend to associate the Byzantine Empire as a part of Greek history. This is understandable as Greece was an essential part of the Byzantine Empire at its zenith. However, I wondered where those who lived in the Byzantine Empire back in the day identified as Greek or not? Their roots are from the split between the Eastern and Western Roman Empire, and, if I recall correctly, the Roman Empire aggressively conquered Greece into their empire.

For instance, there is the Han dynasty (206 BC - 220 AD), the Southern Han (917 - 971), the Han insurgent state (1360-1363), the Han state in the Warring States period (403 BC - 230 BC), and so on...