This question stems from fictional battle, namely GoT, but would a line of archers continue to fire into the field of battle after engagement. Would there still be an onthrought of arrows when both sides were engaged in the field?

Also assuming I'm anti-fascist, would them coming to power majorly effect my life (before the outbreak of WWII)? What kind of things would I have to be most likely worried about?

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When writing a script I like to be as accurate as I can be, both historically or otherwise. The script I'm writing at the moment has a scene in it (which takes place during the near end of world war 2) in which a British fighter pilot collides with an enemy plane, causing them both to eject and land safely over an area in Peru where the Andes mountains meets the Amazonian rainforest.

What I really need to know is:

1.	Is there an event during the war in which a US cargo plane would have been flying over this area (imagine a shipment from Argentina or Chile to New York).

2.	Would it have been possible that British fighter pilots could have been escorting said cargo.

3.	If it would have been attacked, which of the enemy countries would have been most likely to engage in the attack (I was on the fence between Japan and Germany).

Any helpful contributions would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you.

I'm watching a BBC series about the progression of weaponry at the moment, and, having just got to the invention of semi-automatic pistols, it occurs to me that they must have existed during the tail-end of the period thought of the Wild West. However, obviously, the revolver is most commonly associated with this period/area, as far as pistols go; does that mean they just weren't really in use, or is it just a fiction that everyone was always toting a pair of revolvers?

My Step-dad and I were remarking at how silly Trial by Combat sounds in the 21st century, and he claimed he heard something somewhere that there were professional champions. Something about very skilled duelists who would be hired to champion a person in exchange for a large fee. Is there any truth to this? Some Googling turned up nothing.

EDIT: I just realized I used the wrong "there" in the title. I am more ashamed than I ought to be.

Full disclosure, I am in the camp that the bombings were justified. However, are they any documents or evidence from Soviet leaders that suggests had the US not had the atomic bombs they would have started a war with the Allies over conflict points such as the Berlin Airlift or the Korean war?

I know that a lot of what 'is known' about Vikings is largely a myth i.e. the fact that not every Scandinavian went 'a Viking'. For those that stayed at home, or were not warriors, did they aspire to enter Valhalla? Was there a separate heaven for non-combatants? Also, I guess, what would the ratio be of warriors to civilians? (I'm sure that warriors would have returned to fishing or agriculture during the winter, but I'm specifically enquiring about those who never fought).

Thanks!

When tractors and steam engines and other agricultural machinery became available, perhaps slaves were less necessary for farm work.

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I stumbled upon this passage in a speech of Maria M. Stewart, the early 19th century American abolitionist, entitled "What If I Am a Woman?"

In the thirteenth century, a young lady of Bologne devoted herself to the study of the Latin language and of the laws. At the age of 23 she pronounced a funeral oration in Latin in the great church of Bologne; and to be admitted as an orator, she had neither need of indulgence on account of her youth or of her sex. At the age of 26 she took the degree of doctor of laws, and began publicly to expound the Institutes of Justinian. At the age of thirty, her great reputation raised her to a chair, where she taught the law to a prodigious concourse of scholars from all nations. She joined the charms and accomplishments of a woman to all the knowledge of a man. And such was the power of her eloquence, that her beauty was only admired when her tongue was silence.

As far as I can tell, it's more or less a lift from a book called Sketches of the history, genius, disposition, accomplishments, employments, customs and importance of the fair sex, in all parts of the world : interspersed with many singular and entertaining anecdotes.

But the original book doesn't include a name. Does anyone with a more substantial understanding of 13th century Bologne have an educated guess?

Since the U.S. was going through it's westward expansion and Manifest Destiny phase, and since one of the goals of the early war of 1812 was to annex Canada, it seemed like this would of been in the interest of the U.S., especially since we did capture the capital of Mexico City.

How would soldiers in the 16th century train/drill? How would this be different for, say, halberdiers, pikemen, arquebusiers, and sword-and-buckler-men? Would I need to be especially strong to wield a Zweihander? Additionally, how would I have joined/been recruited?

Maybe as just a drummer boy or something?