Like when Jesus drank wine with the Apostles, that verse at the Wedding of Cana when He turned water into wine, and that verse at the Last Supper when He drank wine also.

As Protestant Christians are influential in the Prohibition, how did they reconcile the movement with these verses and its use in the Christian communion?

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Singapore is a country often spoken highly of, with frequent references to its wealth, growth and functioning low-tax free market system. Regardless of the various factors that allows Singapore to be especially prosperous, it is unquestionable that it is quite authoritarian. Criminal punishments are harsh, political speech is heavily restricted, and there is a strong personality cult centered on Lee Kuan Yew. This brings me to wonder what degree of injustice, suffering and oppression was caused by Yew's government, i.e., how oppressive was it, and how were those harsh policies justified? Were there systematic persecutions of groups in society, confiscation of property, re-writing of history, or a suffering underclass? How important was the country's wealth/growth in keeping citizens "happy"?

Thank you in advance!

I know you get them all over Europe (and the world) but there seem to be a disproportionately high number of surviving ones in the Netherlands compared to elsewhere, considering how small the country is. Is there a reason for this?

With the invention of a proper radio in 1894, the Marconi Radio, why didn't these, or other variations become popular to the military? For example, those radios should serve better than a wireless telegraph on a large naval vessel such as a dreadnought right?

A while back I was reading Yuval Harari s book Sapiens and came across the idea. Now, having read both works of serious history and works like "A history of English speaking peoples", I got a feeling that the work was more akin to the story telling rather than history - which by itself is not bad. The only caveat there is perhaps, that one should hear the same story through other perspectives to gain the understanding of history.

With that in mind, is it a valid idea? What does it constitute ? And what were the causes and effects of the cognitive revolution among humans and could we possibly see something similar happening to another mammal - if not our other great ape cousins ?

To be more specific, technical class as in a group of people whose livelihoods and status are based on the creation of technology and its maintenance.

This was a anecdote in the context of soldiers avoiding battle. The quote is as follows:

"The wastes of the ‘old Somme battlefield’, pitted with dug-outs and trenches over many square miles, were, during 1917, colonized by a freebooting gang of Australians, who lived by raiding military dumps and eluded the search of the military police for many months, some say until the end of the war."

I am very interested to know more about these battlefield colonizers.

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Since city-states were independent and even made war on each other, and they spoke different dialects (I'm not sure how close different Greek dialects are, or if, say, an Ionian could understand a Dorian), where does this broader idea of Greek identity come from and what were the properties a city/community had to have to be considered Greek?

I'm writing a story in which the protagonist sits at an inn in Venice and hears word of the Peasants' Revolt in England. Would this be accurate? Would a commoner in those times hear of news like this, much less care?

My grandfather served in WWII. I know he enlisted prior to Pearl Harbor and served until 1946. Late in his life, I heard a few stories about the war, but never any locations or specifics. After his death, I've tried to find where Grandpa actually was and put together his story.

Unfortunately, in the 1970s, a large fire destroyed many Army personnel records - including my grandfather's.

Are there any other avenues for an amateur researcher like me to piece together a WWII story? (I have his service number, if that's helpful.)

I'd hate to see his story lost forever.

Many thanks.

Title. Always have been curious, no idea how it came about...thanks!

In school, I always hear about speeches given by Americans, but never Native Americans. Were there any insightful Native American speeches?

He died April 30, 1945 yet the bombs dropped on Japan which ended the war happened 4 months later?

My impression of the time preceding the American Industrial Revolution--possibly totally wrong--is that families had plots of land and were somewhat self-sufficient (especially relative to modern families). If that is so--what motivated them to move into cities? What economic/social pressures or opportunities am I ignorant of?

I'm listening to Hardcore History: Blueprint for Armageddon by Dan Carlin (which is riveting and everyone should listen to it) and he is emphasizing the size of these armies and how Germany's is the size of the roman empire at its height. This is all fascinating stuff but it is leaving me a little bit perplexed. If Germany is mobilizing 750,000 troops, what does that look like, and how are they formed? Do armies of this size walking in a straight line? If so wouldn't someone be able to trace it back to their headquarters like a trail of ants? Also where do they stay when they are waiting to fight? Couldnt they easily be spotted on their way to the fighting? Also How can they store millions of men collectively and still have a competition going on? Wouldn't it be easy to just find a way INTO the barracks if they are that large? Or at the very least shell them to bits? I just can't imagine how the manpower was organized for this and how it all ran smoothly enough to even put up a fight. And to clarify I am not talking about rallying the troops with propaganda. I am asking specifically about the battles already in progress around August 1914 and the troops that are ALREADY in position