Hello, I'm new to reddit. I had a family member involved with D-day and operation market garden and would like to know more about the 501st during that period. I know the division went on to liberate Dachau subcamps after market garden and bastogne, I'm looking for information between those periods like paths, towns, engagements, etc. Anything helps, thanks

Pirates tend to be depicted with an eyepatch which people claim is so they could have one eye always used to darkness to easily go below deck which has no or limited light level

but why aren't others depicted in a similar fashon? sailors of the brittish navy, french navy etc. did they posses a lightsource the pirates did not?

How strong was place-of-origin vs citizenship/home in the Roman Empire, when was a Syrian or German just "Roman" if ever. Did this change from the Principate to the Byzantines?

Was ethnicity less important in the Byzantine Empire because it seems like they have more high-ranking non-Romans but I might be wrong.

I haven't watched really any movies about Ptolemaic Egypt or Cleopatra in general, but Rome blew me away when it came to production value, attention to detail, writing quality you name it. Assuming that Assassin's Creed lives up to its high standards I am hoping it will give me some serious Rome vibes but then realized I have no idea whether Rome is the 300 of Egyptian movies and I have seen it vaguely trash-talked on this sub a few times.

What do you fine internet historians think of how it portrays Egypt? How about Cleopatra's story arc (she was really hard to like but at the same time I think of her life as ancient Wolf of Wall Street which is chill af.

George Martin and Stephen King describe this periods influence on them and id love to learn more.

Found it in a John Reed text speaking about the russian revolution and i don't really have clear what it means... Is it a journal or a political party? Haven't found any conclusive information thus far. Any help would be appreciated from someone who has experience on the topic ;)

In Daniel Branch's Kenya and he mentions how in 1965 and 1971, two attempted coups were thwarted but he implies that in reality there was little too them; how developed were these plots? Were they a serious threat?

For example, with regard to 1965, he quotes one intelligence source as saying hundreds of weapons were obtained from Odinga's office but then goes on to say that no substantive evidence was ever presented? Also, with regard to 1971, although he states that a plot definitely existed, that it was little more than a 'one in a million' chance of success.

TLDR: Were the 1965 and 1971 coup plots against the Kenya government genuine threats or were they not really credible?

Thanks.

I was watching a rerun of Pearl Harbor and started to wonder. Since the whole premise of the film is that a couple of pilots who first fight the Japanese with fighters during the attack on Pearl Harbor are then picked to participate in the Doolittle raid.

How common was it during WWII for pilots to switch the type of the aircraft they flew during the war? Like from fighter to bomber, or vice versa? (In the American military or perhaps other nations?)

I was talking to my friend about British Israelism and was able to argue against it pretty successfully. The best point he made, which actually was a point he brought me to socratically, is that the king of Scottland in 1113 was King David. The only king David I'm aware of is Israeli, and the name is definitely a Jewish name. How did the king of Scotland come to have a Jewish name - especially on an island a thousand miles from Israel who was born 50 years into the diaspora?

I'm researching Jeju for a book I'm writing and I read that Jeju was usually called Tamra (Tamna?) but sometimes called a few different names like Tagra, Tammora, and Seomna (탁라, 섭나, 탐모라)

I was wondering what the purpose was for the different names? English documents haven't gotten me very far and my Korean isn't good enough to read native documents >.<

Thank you!!

In "Commando Crusade" by Major-General T. Churchill, the author describes searching a home previously occupied by German soldiers, and notes, "There was also that characteristic German smell which, I have always noticed, pervades any house or room which they have occupied."

So what was this characteristic German smell? Has this been mentioned elsewhere?

E.g. If you told a Roman in the consulship of Q. Servilius Caepio and C. Atilius Serranus that X happened during the consulship of C. Popillius Laenas and P. Aelius Ligus as a response to Y, which happened during the consulship of L. Cornelius Lentulus and P. Villius Tappulus, would they be able to intuitively know the timeline? (N.B. I randomly chose pairs of consuls from a list without an indepth knowledge of Roman history; if I accidentally picked really famous pairs, substitute for less prominent ones)

A lot of war movies that depicted Americans in world war 2 has limited communications and relations with international allies and that got me wondering.

One scene in particular from band of brothers where Americans drove by soviet soldiers that were executing German soldiers; Americans just kept driving like they were strangers. Got me thinking a bit.

Many surname types have understandable origins, like occupations (Miller, Smith), or "son of" (Jackson)

But people with the last name Black, White, Green(e), Brown, why did their ancestors get these family names? It happens in at least English and German, so might be a Germanic name thing?

I think a rule-change to prohibit follow-up questions until at least one good answer has been posted would help increase the quality of the subreddit. Too often there are three or four "follow-up" questions on a post that has no answer in the first place. This detracts and distracts from the OP. Let me know your thoughts please.

Here is a simple one did General Custer fight at Gettysburg?

I read in a textbook that the Crusades changed the way Muslims thought about jihad, or at least refined it. I would like to know more about this. Is it related to contemporary terrorist movements?

To elaborate.

Did anyone keep them in good conditions, fed them, allowed them some privileges?

I suppose anyone who looked down on a human so much that you would enslave them wouldn't have much compassion, though I would like to think it was because they didn't know any better and some weren't as malevolent as their practice would seem.