I love to read Homeros "The illiad" and "Udyssén", but are there actually any other "proofs" that the Trojan War happened?

I've searched for it, but I've not found anything good about it. So I want to ask here. Hopefully someone here knows something about it or have a good link to somewhere!

Given that a president had just been assassinated, wouldn't securing the line of succession by appointing a new VP have been a top priority?

If it was, in what ways did it differ from the European concept?

When fencing was used in the military rather than a sport there would be no playing field, so moving sideways would be allowed.

Also, when swords were used what would stop a soldier from stabbing an opponent if they were rolling?

In 1945 the US only had 2 A-bombs ready for use. The fat man and the little boy. And they used them both. But the only other information I could find was that the US had factories at the ready to make more. This probably would have forced the US to pause a bit whether they wanted to or not.

If they had say, 25 bombs at the ready instead of 2, how many would they have used? What is the mindset of the military leaders in 1945? Would Groves and Truman have waited to see what happened after the first 2? It appears Groves was very eager to use the bombs he had. Was the damage being witnessed making anyone in the us military leaders think twice? Or would the US have bombed much more if they could have?

I know it's wrong, but where did it come from? Did someone argue this in a book written around Sagan's time? Is this his own theory? How could the people who made this show be so completely wrong and not discredit this with some basic research?

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I post this realising that this is probably a very loaded topic of the get-go. Briefly about myself: A mere two years back I was much more intelectually inclined towards conspiracy theories, and being German the ones about the Third Reich were never far from reach. Through an excellent history teacher I have learned to assess these claims more critically, but I find it hard to collect unbiased information on some of the topics that came up frequently. One of them are allied warcrimes, in particular the supposed purposeful starvation of more then a million German PoW at camps in the Rhine river, most often called Rheinwiesenlager. Is there truth to these claims? How big were these camps really, and did the prisoners suffer unusually high mortality? And if so why?

From what I've read of confino. It sounds like it merely involved being moved to another town. What was it that made this punishment unbearable for many people?

Most of the sources I can find describe aspects of the schools other than this. My great grand mother supposedly was a teacher in one in rural connecticut. If you had elementary age kids, did they all get the same lesson, or was there no common lecture? How did they deal with people aging out and entering?

Share your stories of people and plots that failed...and what came next.

(And obligatory shoutout to fellow Gemini 3 crewmember John Young.)

*Next time: People of color in western Europe

Using al andalus as a convenient phrase for the successive political entities in the southern Peninsula following the Arab conquest.

The books forward mentions many translations from German into other languages so I'm wondering if my confusion is due to it not being called the artillery terms I'm used to hearing. They are in a salient so I know the flanks have something to do with the angle of the gun trajectory?

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With novels, movies, comics and games, the Shinsengumi are everyone's favourite death squad. But how well known were they when they were active?

Were they known outside Kyoto at all? They don't seem to actually have done very much - Every pop culture version I've seen seems to struggle with a lack of actual exploits.

In Satow's 'Diplomat in Japan' (my go-to source), he mentions them in passing, but only as "a newly raised unit of infantry".

So, were their deeds famed in song & story? Or were they obscure until the 20th century and 'Moe o ken'?

Paging u/NientedeNada :)

I'm talking about the achemenid empire, it was huge and it didn't have a sea in the middle that let them communicate with ships like the roman empire, how did they communicate to the different satraps and in case of revolt how much time did it take to send troops ?

I'm reading Food in History by Reay Tannahill and on page 47, it say:

"it is worth noting that in Egypt land put down to grain in 1000BC is estimated to have yielded as rich a crop as it did in the 1950s."

What exactly does this statement mean? Crop variety? Crop quantity? Nutrients within those crops from those lands? How was that determined?

It is cited from A Dictionary of Egyptian Civilisation by George Posener. Can't find PDF or a local copy.

I have recently moved to Singapore where I am surrounded by the remnants of Britain's colonial past. From decidedly British road names to statues of Sir Stamford Raffles, the impact of the company seems pervasive. My knowledge of our colonial past is limited at best; there seems to be a huge gap between the vaguely jingoistic love of empire that is popular back home and what I have read in books like Orientalism by Edward Said.

who has it right?

I searched online and came across people who think he almost certainly existed, and others who are skeptical.