I had the theory that thy were from the animators hair or cloths fiber but why so many?

For example, we might be able to say, given a bunch of events or documents of the 17th century, when most of them happened or were written, but we might have no idea whether something happened in 2000BC or in 2001BC (just random numbers, I have no idea where this distinction might appear).

I know a lot has been written on this topic but with today marking 50 years since the start of the conflict, I'd like to learn more about it.

So I'll start by asking, what were the key strategic areas that allowed the IDF to so totally defeat a numerically superior combined Arab military from Syria, Jordan and Egypt? I guess conversely you could ask what made Arab militaries so ineffective in this brief but hugely important conflict?

So I love history but it annoys me to no end that I have no idea on how to know if someone is accurate from internet/books, is there some things I can do to lower the margin of inaccuracy?

Why are large parts of the Middle East still so very backward compared to the west while places that were backward in Asia (Japan) before World War 2 no longer are?

What were they trying to achieve by continuing to fight when they knew they had no chance of winning? Or was there no end goal other than to preserve their nature of honor, never to surrender, and to fight until the last man?

So I'm reading DAI (which was written in the 10th century) for a uni essay and in it Constantine says "From their migration from Salona to Ragusa, it is 500 years till this day, which is the 7th indiction, the year 6457."

Where does Constantine get the year 6457 from?

I recently was reading a copy of "Woman's Day Encyclopedia of Cooking" (1965), which claimed the following (Vol. 1, pg 134):

Until quite recently, there was a close connection between baking and cleanliness. Our female ancestors had definite days for doing their chores, and Saturday was reserved for baking and baths. In an age when hot water did not simply come out of a faucet, the kitchen range provided not only the heat for baking everything from meats to cookies, but also the hot water needed for cleaning up for Sunday's churchgoing. The baking began Saturday morning, the baths Saturday afternoon

This struck me as a bit of an odd assertion. I would assume that cooking with heat happened multiple days of the week, and it sounded kind of like a "just-so" story.

I've done some initial searching, but I haven't found any other source describing this link, whether as rumor, fact, or myth. There's many references to bathing historically being a more difficult, time-consuming endeavor, and similarly many references to the general amount of effort required in food preparation. But I haven't found anything linking the two, particularly.

Was there a period, particularly somewhere in the 18th-20th centuries, in Western Europe or North America, where Saturday was considered both the day for bathing and also the day for baking?

If so, was the sharing of the day related to sharing a heat source?

If not, in the 1960's, was there some belief about history held then, but not as common today, that would lead to this assertion?

So I've got one more year in cégep (college) and in university I'm sort of leaning towards history or art history or archeology. There's this other program called art conservation. I'm just wondering what are some of the general requirements for those programs. Do I need science for archeology and art conservation? PM me if you wish to.

I was having a discussion about how the concept of weekend as holiday started. I am suspecting that the sabbath is the origin of the sunday as holiday. But if it has a specific religious origin, how did people outside the Judeo-Christian belife observed regular holiday?

It seems pretty natural to me that people need some time off from work regularly, but in ancient agrarian culture, it might not be as natural as it sounds today.

What is it about a story, within the text itself, that makes historians think it came from an oral tradition originally? What elements or devices or other aspects are usually shared by (or indicative of) a story from oral tradition that was later transcribed?

If I wanted to write a story that was supposed to be from oral tradition, what would it include?

For example, would, say, a shepherd living in Gaul during the reign of Trajan or Hadrian have seen himself primarily as Gaulish, Roman, or something else? How about a farmer in Egypt?

Also, I've read that the Byzantines viewed themselves as ethnically Roman, but I get the impression that in earlier times the Greeks were seen as a separate culture from the Romans. When and how did this merger between Greek and Roman identity take place? Did anyone still view themselves as Greek but not Roman in the Byzantine Empire?

Did language play a role in identity? Did speakers of Coptic or Aramaic see themselves as different from the Latin- and Greek-speaking elite of the empire?

(For this question, I am ignoring the new trend of bringing reusable bags to the store.)

When I watch shows or movies set long ago, the people at market carry bags or baskets for the things tbey are purchasing. Now, with the exception of one store (Aldi's is the one store I know, there may be more), customers expect that the store will have free bags for them.

When/Why did this happen? Was it a form of advertising?

I know Russia had false propaganda campaigns aimed against the US, but has a similar thing been done in the US? I'm looking for examples of an exaggeration of a US victory. A time when the government censored the truth to keep the public calm.

Such as the Cuban missile crisis, it is not well known that the missiles in Cuba were removed by Russia only under the terms that the US would also remove their missiles in Turkey. Most assume that the US came out as the victor in the situation, while in reality, it was a mutual agreement between the two nations.

What I'm looking for is maybe a newspaper or some sort of example of the sort published around the cold war era that hides the truth from the American people by lying about an American victory. if necessary it could be from almost any period in time, and from any country, but my focus is on the cold war.

I posted this before on r/coldwar but received no answer

I have seen it stated in virtually every documentary and article that many different causes were blamed for the plague, witches, cats, Jews, sinners etc. but the rats that were ferrying plague fleas and eating plague corpses were completely overlooked. Is this true and why would no one have associated such obviously filthy and dangerous creatures with the plague all around them?

There's a pervasive internet meme that pirates wore eyepatches so they could adjust to the light below decks when fighting. As far as I know there is very little historical basis for this even if it is a plausible theory.

I am sceptical that seafaring warriors even wore eyepatches aboard ship with the pirate eyepatch thing being a Hollywood invention.

I guess te old sea dogs with missing limbs and eyes were more likely casualties of conventional naval warfare where cannon fire would produce fragments that could put out an eye.

So what is real? Did active pirates or naval marines routinely wear eye patches and if so was it to adjust to the light rather than an old war wound?

Some people keep saying that Serbia was under Ottoman rule for about 500 years, and some say it was about 300, give or take some years. I don't know who to believe anymore.

So, when exactly did the Ottoman empire establish its rule in the central Balkan peninsula, and how long did it last before it retreated?

Thanks.

How were naval mines stored on ships in WW2? Were they towed behind the ship (which seems highly unlikely and HIGHLY dangerous), or were they kept in some sort of rack aboard the ship?