What were the M.E. equivalent to Duke, Count, Baron, etc? Tried to look some up, but couldn't find any.

Assuming that a soilders age was somewhere between their 18-30s during 1777 they would have lived into the 1860s?

People as in Men. Good examples of this in popular culture is depictions of Vikings(sic) or Medieval inspired fantasy like Game of Thrones.

Has the USA ever had a General or Admiral taken prisoner by a foreign nation? If so, how did they happen to be taken prisoner, and what was their treatment like?

I've been reading a bit about Japanese industrialization and am somewhat surprised by how quickly it took place and how easily to Japanese defeated China in the first Sino-Japanese War. One particular part that stood out to me is willingness for most clans to sacrifice their land ownership for government positions.

Say I am a young nobleman in 14th Century Japan (i.e. the Ashikaga Shogunate prior to the Ōnin War) and I want to hire a samurai. How would I accomplish this?

Here are a list of things I would like to consider:

• Will I have to search for rōnin or will the rōnin come to me?
• Is there a way I can find out the quality of a rōnin? Would I ask other noblemen, samurai, or would I just make the rōnin audition?
• How would I advertise that I need a samurai?
• Is the need to hire a Samurai a common occurrence or is it rare? During what occasions would one be more likely to hire a Samurai or not?
• Would this hiring process change for other periods of Feudal Japanese History?

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Do we have any record of the magnetic compass' history of use? Do we know who first hypothesized that you could navigate using it? And were there any points earlier in history where someone attempted to prove that it could serve a practical purpose besides divination?

I've seen Kurlander cited here a couple of times, and the reviews I've seen online in newspapers etc are positive. However a book about Nazis and the occult makes me wary that it's going to be sensationalist speculation.

Does anyone know if this book is actually reliable? Or where I can find reviews to check the reliability of this book?

I asked this the other day and didn't get much of a response, so I'll try again...

And maybe "nickname" isn't the right word. "Mascot" maybe? Why are North American teams typically known as the "Springfield _______s" whereas outside of North America, particularly in soccer/football, clubs are typically known without a nickname, like "Springfield F.C.", or "Springfield Rugby Club"?

I know that some Association football clubs do have nicknames, but you usually don't hear them. The wiki page tells me that Manchester United are nicknamed the "Red Devils" but that mascot wasn't adopted until the 1960s, and you rarely see a "Manchester United Red Devils" headline. Whereas, North American teams like the New York Giants and Boston Red Sox have been referred to like that since the early 1900s, at least, and are quite often referred to in headlines as simply the "Giants" or "Red Sox".

Has this always been the case? Why do clubs outside North America, particularly football/soccer clubs, not use team nicknames to the same degree as they are used in baseball, basketball, hockey, and American and Canadian football? Or put another way, why are team nicknames used so extensively in North America unlike elsewhere? What is the history of this tradition?

As far as we know leather armor didn't exist and yet in popular culture myth of leather armor as cheap armor for average foot soldier was born. Historians however have evidence that people who couldn't afford mail or full plate were using gamberson (I know knights also used it under plate or mail).

So were myth of leather armor was born? Games? Movies? Somewhere else?

I know Hitler hated Jews for their religion but what happened to Jews who didnt practice Judaism or didnt even want to be associated with any religion? Were they forgotten about because they didnt practice Judaism?

Would they just call themselfs Polish or whatever country they came from or Israeli?

Yes, I know Hess was there longer

Would they have connected this witch magician? (I'm thinking of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone here.)

Thinking about a debate I had with my family over breakfast. My dad was watching a movie about Nazi occupation of France. My mother said "oh it's a holocaust movie" while my father said, "no, it's a World War II movie." What separates actions made by the Nazis in the theater of war and their actions in carrying out the Holocaust?

Her radical music was produced during the height of the Cold War, when government agencies spent much of their suppressing left-wing organization. How did she escape prosecution? Did the FBI ever attempt to silence Nina Simone?

Recently read an article that went a bit more in-depth about the cleaning day that mentioned stuff like nose hair removal, hair bleaching with strong soap, removing dirt from nails and more.

This made me wonder if thralls followed at least parts of their owners saturday rituals.