For how long have we been burying our dead? Do we know the first example of an actual burial or entombment, or is it to difficult to know if something was buried or covered over time?

It seems like a very pervasive idea in comedy in particular. Was there a wave of rural Americans claiming to have been abducted at some stage? Also, where does the anal probing come from?

Hi,

I'm aware that the Romans typically woke up at sunrise and retired at sunset but did they have any method for specific time keeping?

For example, would there ever be an instance such in modern life where they'd arrange a meeting for say 2pm or would they keep broader time frames such as when the sun is at a certain point in the sky?

On that note, perhaps sundials were the answer?

Curious to hear your expert knowledge :)

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Does anyone know how you would handle a situation where a train broke down, in the middle of nowhere, during the 1920s?

Did they have radios with them? Did they sit and wait for the next train? Push it with manpower and the power of friendship all the way to the next station?

Hi reddit, I have to make a presentation for school about the prohibition of cannabis. When I read about it on the internet I saw that cannabis was first prohibited by the International Opium Conference, but then against through the Marijuana Tax Act (in the USA). I think this is really contradictory. Could you help me, please?

I was explaining to my daughters that the French conquest of England led to the English language gaining lots of words. I used as an example of cow and beef. With the cow being the English word and beef being the French. I also pointed out the French were eating the meat and naming it while the English were spending more time raising it. One of my daughters pointed out chicken was chicken and duck was duck both in relation to the animal and the meat. We had some ideas about this but does anybody have a fact?

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Hi guys, I was watching a movie called "Raise the Red Lantern" which is based on "Wives and Concubines".

In the story, a wealthy master has 4 concubines, and one of them is executed for having an affair.

I don't seem to understand because it was never explicitly shown that the master was of royalty (though he was indeed wealthy).

I would like any leads for me to understand why he had the power to execute one of the concubines, unless this was pure murder rather than execution due to law.

The master has servants, so I don't know if this is just from wealth or if this is from royalty.

Please let me know of how Concubines lived during this time, and laws and punishements. I'm looking for context to understand this film and book better.

Hi everyone. I'm seeking more information about what it was like (conditions, treatment, etc.) to be interned as a German and Italian alien in the U.S. during WWII.

I've certainly found ample information on Japanese internment--how both aliens and U.S. citizens were interned (this distinction not necessarily made with Germans/Italians), what camps were like, how they were forced to evacuate the West coast, etc etc....also one of my family members was interned.

But I'm looking for more info as to what conditions were like for the Germans/Italians. One of my professors mentioned how there was one German "internment camp" in the east or something, and how they had actually integrated into society...I might have mis-remembered what they said, but I also can't find any information on it.

Thanks so much!

Hi everyone at AskHistorians! I am a Vietnamese American college student. It is my dream to become a filmmaker and tell the story of my parents, about how my dad fought in the war as a young South Vietnamese man and how both my father and my mother came to America as refugees. The thing is I don't really know much about the Vietnam war and I am worried that some of the history books we get here in America are really biased towards the American side. So I would also like to get a bunch of resources on the Vietnamese perspective as well as the American side. I also don't know too much about Vietnamese culture so maybe someone could offer some resources about that. Just anything that you would think a filmmaker would need to know, not just history, but photos, interviews, etc. But I think most of all what would help are interviews on what it felt like emotionally for the Vietnamese people during that time since I will be writing a drama. Thank you so much.

Which country was the first to introduce this concept?

I'm aware that there isn't one canonical work of Arthurian legend, and I've had 'The Once and Future King's recommended as one to look at, but I was wondering what books are considered to contain the most of what we know/the stories about Arthur. Either from a strictly narrative point of view, or explaining it in historical context.

For example the book I mentioned above has had some criticism for mixing and matching some aspects from two stories, missing out some details from each.

I heard some tales about soldiers, both German and British alike, abandoning their trenches to hide out in No Man's Land, coming out only at night to scavenge for food and resorting to cannibalism while releasing blood curdling sounds (likely from Shell Shock).

I know this all kinda sounds romanticized, and I tried looking up as much as I could with no avail. Is there any truth to this myth? Thank you!

it seemed like augustus had the means and will. did he not want to edit julius caesars works? we seem have no decent gaps in antonys story.