I was listening to a lecture and the speaker mentioned that dental abscesses were both common and deadly in ancient Egypt. What was the case of so many abscesses and why were they deadly?

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A good example (and the one that made me ask this) is the crest of the Canadian province of British Columbia.

Any historians of modern Christian traditions around? There's a news article going around on social media about a Wisconsin company introducing implanted microchips that use RFID technology, for their employees to use as access codes. It's voluntary and evidently replaces company ID cards.

I have the relevant religious background to know how this story would be received by a particular Christian demographic, and the responses I have seen confirm it: this technology is being linked to Christian eschatology and causing some people a fair amount of alarm.

Anyway, it got me wondering. I have seen numerous similar responses from the Christian community over the past several decades in regards to various technologies relating to ID and electronic records. I've heard that social security cards and UPC bar codes triggered similar worries. Anecdotally I can confirm from personal experience that some Christian groups point to UPC barcodes as a precursor to the Mark and the rise of the Antichrist of Revelations. But I'm curious how far back this goes? Is it actually true that Christian groups or individuals associated social security numbers with the Mark of the Beast ? Or is it even earlier than that? I guess what I'm asking is, what have the cultural trends of this phenomenon been like over the past few decades, when did it actually begin, is it usually linked only with technology, or are there other factors involved?

Additionally, has any of this anxiety ever had a significant effect on the implementation--or not--of certain technologies?

I'm most interested in Western Europe between the 11th and 13th century.

In North America you have two "anglo" counties of USA and Canada and one Spanish country of Mexico. In South America you have one portuguese county of Brazil. But why are there more than a dozen independ Spanish counties in central and south america.

When did restaurants which specifically serve foreign food, especially with an exotic atmosphere first become a thing? As I understand it the first restaurants and taverns just served whatever was in season locally or local specialties, so at what point in time did ethnic restaurants start to become an established part of the competition eatery wise?

This extends from history, to mythology, paganism and heritage. European art is so heavily inspired by GrecoRoman motifs and the European aristocracy took such an interest in figures like Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great, so did Islamic scholars and aristocrats take a similar interest in ancient history of Rome, Persia, Mesopotamia, Hellenism etc given that historically they had an even longer amount of contact with these influences than say, Germany, France or Britain?

Did they compare themselves to the ancients in the way their European contemporaries did?

I was having a discussion with a friend and they had said that in ancient times there weren't any real STD's or STI's. I personally think that with so many bathhouses and brothel's there had to be some form of disease running around. Were there any STD's or STI's at that time?

Were they adopted by the Chinese and/or Koreans during or after the wars? Did it affect how they conducted warfare in any other ways?

Were they ostracized from society? Were they treated the same as blind people?

Saw this posted on /r/wma but they're swordsmen not historians so I'm posting it here.

How would a man have gone about joining a late Medieval/early Renaissance German mercenary company? What about joining a fencer's guild like the Marxbrudders or Federfechters? Considering Medieval guilds were roughly equivalent to modern unions, was guild membership a requirement to work as a mercenary? Once hired, would he have to purchase his own weapons and armor or were they provided? What about incidentals like travel expenses or food when he's on tour? Any other questions I should have asked but didn't?

Thanks in advance!

I am looking into graduate school for either history or museum studies. I have already spent about $40,000 on my undergrad, so imagine my hesitation in applying for larger schools for my graduate program going into a field that isn't exactly for the money (I just absolutely LOVE it). I have a long resume because I have always worked full time and now also have a job as a development assistant in a museum. I am wondering if employers in the museum/history fields really look at where the degree comes from. Does it really matter if it was a local school that was less expensive for me? I have always had above a 3.5 GPA. I am just nervous about applying for schools before I know what to expect. (I have also messaged r/MuseumProfessionals as they are a private group now). I will, however, move to another thread to ask if it would be better. TIA.

I imagine digging a trench and hitting rock after a foot wouldn't turn out well under machine gun fire.

I'm curious as to the state of their activities during this time period. Some of these clans are hundreds of years old, but with the way the imperial Japanese government ran things I can't imagine they were too keen on just allowing criminal organizations to exist semi in the open as they do today.

Did the government make any serious attempts to suppress the yakuza, or was their relationship with the government more or less the same as it had been prior to the political changes in the lead up to WWII?

I imagine they operated in command posts far from the enemy and sent orders by radio, but what exactly would they do in a position so far away from the front? How could they view the battlefield? What did their command posts look like? Did they ever travel in jeeps or tanks?

Why didn't cider get the same boost over beer as coffee did over tea? There's a mythology built around Johnny Appleseed, it's a frontier drink as you don't need a grain harvest, very popular in the early days...