To demonize one's enemy in conflict seems to be a common trait. Fostering resentment to a rival to better justify conflict with said rival. In Greek or Latin, did ancient Romans have any demeaning nickname or slurs for Carthage in particular? If so, what were they and how frequently or rarely were they used during the period of conflict?

I've been combing the internet for interesting cases of murders of preferably common people, but I can't seem to find anything... of course, I could just be looking in the wrong places.

I assume they all spoke versions of English, though nothing we could understand?

Was there some sort of Greek-like pagan religion?

There's an old joke in my field that if you want to be an expert in Arabic and Islamic studies, you should learn German.

How do you keep up with scholarly developments in third languages other than English and your language area of study?

I've recently (as in last Thursday recently) been offered to teach an "American Pop Culture" class at my local college. There is no book and not much direction which makes planning for this both easy and difficult. I was given a week between when classes ended in one quarter and when they start again for the SP17 quarter. While I feel I have a half-decent understanding of what pop culture is, I could use some help in its manifestations throughout the 20th century.

I'm primarily an arts and (for the last 4 years) art history educator and approaching this, mostly, as popular arts/pop art history class with smatterings of major events in history as helping shaped what was popular when. I am planning some projects like "If Jean-Michele Basquiat had Twitter, what would his Tweets look like" or "What would Warhol's Snapchat consist of?" filling a contemporary pop tech culture and pop art niche but aside from a few points here and there, I could really use some of the decades between 1900-1999 fleshed out.

I'm not looking for a quarter's worth of material to be planned out for me but rather some talking points that I can relate and flesh out on my own. I am currently considering anything pre-20th c. as well if you might have anything that could fit. Any help is much appreciated!

This has been an argument between a friend and I for a while (the argument mostly centers on the question "does an advance in any/every technology automaticlaly mean an advance in weaponry?"). Is it true that when gunpowder was first discovered in China, it wasn't thought to use it as a weapon, just as a toy/decoration/aesthetic thing?

While searching my computer for a certain e-book I found a small one about Columbus. The author is a professor and a faculty member with over 100+ books to his name, so I don't think he would make this up. Also the book is more like a high school book (light reading). In it was this:

'When the ship landed at Galway, on the western coast of Ireland, Columbus may have been an eyewitness to a curious coastal landing. One day, a small boat drifted onto the shore, carrying the bodies of two people. As the dead pair were examined, they appeared to have faces different from the local Irish residents. In fact, they did not look European. Various witnesses decided they had an Oriental look; some said they looked Chinese.

I've just run across a thread mentioning Hiram Maxim and immediately got interested enough to read more. A quick Google around the interwebs didn't yield any autobiographies, so I'm wondering if anyone here could recommend one.

Is he worth reading-up on in the first place? Maybe there's a larger historical story he's a major player in that would make a better read?

Thanks in advance for any help!

I know the Western Allies doubted the stories of the concentration camps

Let's assume that historical hangul means around the time that hangul was introduced and allowed some number of decades to settle in and proliferate among the population. So maybe anywhere from 20-200 years after its conception and introduction to Sejeong's society?

Could a modern Korean speaker, if time traveled into historical Korea (pretend you're a consultant for a K-drama!), be able to effectively and easily communicate with the people of the time?

I was looking at a map that showed the extensive road network Rome developed, but it made me wonder if there were ever special roads that acted as freeways/highways. I know in Game of Thrones, the books mention the Kings Road that goes from the capitol to the Wall, and is described as a much larger road than other roads in that world. Did Rome have anything like this either?

And who was the man to coin this term?

Reigning for almost 300 years, they obviously did something right, but what were their wrongs/what happened that made their dynasty end?

Was there significant travel between the two? What was the relation of the two governments? Was Gibraltar in any danger of occupation at any point? General info as well.

Wouldn't the ideas accepted under Nazi Germany continue on through all the people raised as "Hitler's youth" after WW2? It seems like the German people moved away from those ideas fairly quickly after the war, but maybe I just don't know enough about postwar Germany.

I figure this question is appropriate for this sub because I'm mostly asking what kinds of historical notes are being struck by the game.

Super Mario Bros. features surly traitor-mushrooms, green and blue turtles, black turtles that can't be hurt by fire, hammer-throwing turtles and giant, spiky dinosaur turtles, along with red-and-orange mushrooms that make you grow, green-and-yellow mushrooms that give you a chance to recover from failure and bouncing stars that make you impervious to damage.

SMB2 has a pink, cross-dressing lizard that spits eggs, and is arguably even weirder than SMB1.

How much of these were riffs on Japanese legends (or perhaps something more contemporary?) and how much was just weird videogame stuff?