As it says. As an example event, if I were an Athenian who lived during the conquests of Alexander, what year would I have said it was? As an extension, what would my yearly calendar have looked like?

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I keep hearing how medical research on trans people was destroyed by Nazis. I know that the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft's research was burned and destroyed and that they viewed Magnus Hirschfeld's work as degenerate. If the work he and his institute did included research on trans people was destroyed, was it completely lost? Was it not copied and shared with other scientific institutions? And was the research it did, regardless of subject, saved and preserved elsewhere? If it wasn't preserved, why not?

Catching a king sounds like a pretty great deal, but does one do with one once you have him? Where was Francis kept while he was in the Emperor's custody? What level of confinement was he under, and under what sort of security? Was he permitted to send letters or receive visitors? Was he provided with the sort of food and finery a king was accustomed to? Were there any escape attempts or breakout attempts?

Forgive me if this question isn't framed correctly, it's my first time! Thanks in advance for any answers!

Is he just an amalgamation of several people, or is there some compelling evidence that points to him being a real person?

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Why were the native americans so ravaged by european diseases but the europeans were not equally sickened. I understand that the slavery and malnutrition that natives suffered as a result of european conquest added to the issue, but shouldn't there have been some widespread sickness present in europe as a result of contact?

How were the recipes recorded and passed along? What time period did they come from? And what culture, if any. What foods were used? etc.

This question came across my mind yesterday when I was imagining the process of creating a completely new recipe from scratch, for something no one has ever made before.

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The Wikipedia article explains that in the strict sense the last use was in Burma in 1943. Why did shrapnel cease being effective? I understand its limits in a trench war, but surely there was enough movement in WW2 that would make shrapnel useful. Or was it superseded by something else?

I'm specifically talking about knights in full plate- but I'd be interested in others as well.

Would they have attendants help them? Would they just 'go' in their armor? When in battle could they be able to take the time to do this?

Every time I see a classic movie (when the telephone was already invented), and for some reason it's taking place outside in the city, I never see those which make me curious if they actually existed back then, or some other technology made it possible to make phone calls.

I am very interested in the history of the Hansa, thus I have been looking for books to learn the subject. Sadly, I can´t seem to find any with even a minimum of exposure. All that Amazon lists seems to be either fairly old or not highly regarded. Are there any accessible books on the subject by proper academic publishers (Oxford, Cambridge, Yale, etc.)?

In modern-day political discourse, it seems axiomatic that the younger you are, the more likely you are to tend towards leftist politics and parties, or support traditionally leftist causes (feminism, anti-racism, decolonistion, etc.). The elderly, as a result, are usually stereotyped as being politically conservative. I was reminded of this quite prominently in the recent UK election -- there's been great talk of 'the youth vote', essentially always with the implication that it would benefit the leftist parties alone.

But has this stereotype, or conception of politics, always been the case, and is it universal? Are there times or cultures where the young were considered more likely to be conservative, and the elderly more liberal? When did people first start talking about this idea?

Note: I'm aware that terms such as 'leftist', 'conservative', 'liberal' and such are often ambiguous and problematic, especially when we try to map these concepts onto times and places other than our own. That's why, if it came to it, I'd be satisfied with an answer along the lines of "this notion's existed since there first existed a political right and left".

Or rather, who ruled the country during the Revolutionary War (1776-1783) and who ruled between victory and Washington's term (1783-1789)?

Seems like a straightforward question but I can't find a proper explanation because of how mythologised this war is.

Napoleon was a great military mind, he had a numerical advantage over Russians - at least at the beginning. We don't usually think of Kutuzov as one of the greatest generals of all time so it's not like Russians were genius. There's usual memetic explanation of General Winter but I prefer to think one of the greatest minds of the age knew that winter may be cold. Popular explanations in media (think War in Peace) say something about strength of Russian spirit and something wrapped in enigma but this is beside the point. From any point of view I can imagine Napoleon did something wrong.

I'm interesting not so much in reasons for French loss but in what decisions made by Napoleon were wrong.

We see the Lighthouse of Alexandria and Roman armour clad warriors, so the exact time frame shouldn't be too hard to narrow down. What did the Pyramids of Giza look like around that time? When would they have appeared similar to how they are today?

Mary Beard's style makes for a great read, and she successfully blends a larger scope with charming details of everyday life. I wanna learn more about Greece in its classical heyday, touching on politics, philosophy, warfare, etc, but I'm unsure where to start. Are there any books that are reminiscent of Beard's book on these subjects? Thanks a lot in advance.

To avoid blisters, modern hikers/backpackers often wear 2 pairs of socks with their boots. How did Roman soldiers who presumably marched more than 10 miles in a day in leather sandals, avoid debilitating blisters. While the average person who doesn't hike might think they could just "toughen up", once you've seen a blister the size and shape of an egg on someone's heel, one tends to change their mind.