If so, how did the US manage to reimburse such a large group of people?

And as a follow up, How did the German public view the Junkers? Were they viewed with contempt, removed from most of German society?

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I am a writer, and me and a friend are planning on writing a story set during WWII, but what should we keep in mind when writing it? For example, is there slang that was common during that time? What should be kept in mind for battle scenes? If this isn't the best place to ask, where should we go?

I don't mean Tibet as a political entity, nor do I mean Kashmir as a political entity. I know Ladakh is still fairly Tibetan in terms of cultural influences, but was the "Tibetan-ness" more spread out than that? How far back are we talking for Tibetan cultural movement into the area?

This question came about because a friend was telling me about the oral tradition of his particular group having come from Kashmir, and "India" before that, and while I'm highly suspicious of the accuracy of oral migration traditions in therms of broad place names, I actually don't know all that much about Tibetan culture in the Kashmir area. I'm much more familiar with more recent migrations into areas like the Brahmaputra Valley or settlement of groups like the Monpa in Tawang.

In the case of Paul and Jesus, there seems to be certain urgency in the coming of the end of days. Did such urgency exist in early Islam and what happened to it later on? What time frame might early Muslims have had in mind for the coming of the apocalypse?

Is it feasible that a sitting president's approval rating be so low that his/her own party would choose to nominate someone else to run for the office? Has this ever happened?

Was the idea of welding together a bunch of pulp fantasy for a tabletop game fresh and new at the time, or was there a precedent Gygax and Arneson were building on?

I'm thinking about infantry or even Pog units. Was what we consider hazing now more prevalent back then? Did they have weekly liberty breifs and formations on what not to do? Did they have their version of death by PowerPoint? How did leave work? What was bootcamp like? How was the culture inside the military? These are all questions I'll like answered and interest me.

I've read through the FAQ, but non of the questions really fit, so I hope this one is okay.

From what I've read, it seems like being born female during the middle age is the worst destiny someone can possibly have. They had basically no rights, were treated as objects, got burned for being witches and genereally were the source of all evil.

I find that hard to believe, if it really was that horrible, I don't think that the first wave of feminism would have occured so much later.

So, how were women really treated in medial times? How many rights did they have? How was the power divided between men and women in a medival household? Simply, how sexist was society really? I'm mostly interested in europe, but answers for other parts of the world would for sure be interesting too.

Second attempt at this.

I've just finished reading 'Skunk Works' by Ben Rich about Lockheed Martin's special project division (great book, highly recommended).

During the section on the development of U2 spy plane, Rich mentions how spy planes that flew at a lower altitude, prior to the introduction of the U2, were being shot down by Soviet MIGs, to the point that they introduced fighter escorts, which then engaged in dogfights with the MIGs with both sides suffering casualties. Rich mentions how the waste of the lives of young American pilots was a driving factor at Skunk Works for the success of the U2.

Now I think I'm fairly aware of the basic 'semi direct' engagements of the Cold War (Soviet pilots in Korea and Vietnam, Bay of Pigs, CIA in Afghanistan etc.) but all of these had an aura of deniability when it came to NATO and Warsaw Pact forces directly engaging each other.

But with something like the downing of Gary Powers or the death of Major Arthur Nicholson in the DDR, it seems it was a massive deal at the time and was widely known to the public.

So did these pre-U2 engagements really happen and if so, how did they, if you'll pardon the pun, fly under the radar with neither side publicly acknowledging them? And were there other similar events that were also not public knowledge?