I've bee fascinated for a while by the medieval ballad, and I'd be much obliged if someone could enlighten me on its standing and history across Europe. For Britain, it seems to me that most ballads I come across are Scots. Is this true for, or just a folly on my part? And if it is true, what is the reason behind that?

From the time of the Republic up through the Empire, how did Rome go about spreading the Latin language to its new provinces? Were there some sort of schools for it? What types of people would need (or have the option) to learn it? Who would teach it?

Secondly, I realize the answer to this question may look very different in the Eastern provinces where Greek was already widely spoken and the "civilized" infrastructure was better. Yet, I'm still curious, what types of people would have needed to learn Latin in the East in order to do their jobs effectively under Roman administration?

Finally, did the methodology of spreading Latin education change, say from the time of Julius Ceasar until Trajan's conquests were being incorporated into the Empire?

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Let's not ask too much about how I got onto the ship, or how I went unnoticed as it left.

Let's just say it was dark out, and in a classic moment of drunken genius I just sorta wandered on unseen, got to a lower deck and then decided to sleep off the booze. Is this going to be the longest hangover of my life?

How much trouble am I going to be in now? Would I be put into some brig or be expected to work off my poor decision making? Would I be dropped off at the next planned stop, or would I become a part of the whole voyage? How do I even get back to Britain from wherever I get dropped off at?

I assume the response to my action would probably be different depending on if I was going to somewhere in Europe compared to somewhere like Hong Kong. How might it differ?

Any info on this would be appreciated, but especially appreciated would be any entertaining stories about drunken stowaways who did not realise what they had just signed up for.

So it sounds silly but I'm currently working my way through Alexander Dumas 'Three Musketeers' for the millionth time and I find myself really enjoying the descriptions of court intrigues and political machinations. Are there any well-written accounts of what court life was like, and any notable plots (both failed and successful) of nobles vying for royal favour?

I realise there were big wars between countries going on at the time, but I'm more interested in the smaller nobles and individuals floating around the court at the time.

Thanks in advance!

It seems like many of the hit rock and roll songs around the 50s and early 60s were originally written and performed by one artist and then popularized by another.

Nowadays it seems like re-using other groups songs and "old standards" are more rare in mainstream pop music. When did the shift occur to each artist being expected to perform mostly original material?

I'm just thinking....everyone says that Russia, France, and the UK just drew up the agreement by drawing lines in the map (considering rivers heavily I believe) without considering ethnic groups, tribal affiliation, religious denomination, and so on. Did they not possibly do this intentionally in some places to help ensure regional weakness in the future? That they perhaps on purpose drew the map thinking they'd rule over it now and that a planned regional instability would be intended consequence of their choices?

Specifically, how was CCR seen in the Southern United States? As I assume their accents are exaggerated, was this an issue at the time?

My university teacher says that he married with kids and had wives as young as 6. He said that Muhammad had sex with Aisha a girl that was 9 years old.

Where there any other names considered? Where did Windsor come from?

(First, I would like to mention that I wasn't entirely sure where to post this, so if this doesn't fit here, it would be appreciated if you could direct me to a different subreddit.)

Recently, my art teacher assigned us a project to create a representation of a historical mask and create a Prezi about how it was used, what purpose it served, and stories that involve the mask. (He wanted something more in the realm of Iroquois false face masks, ancient African masks, etc., but I was able to convince him to let me do a WWI gas mask, since the topic is a little more familiar to me, and I felt like I could get a higher grade this way.) I've been trying to find information about these masks, and have had a difficult time finding sources.

It's been especially hard finding stories from the war that involve these gas masks. I haven't been able to find any accounts of people that survived a deadly situation due to these gas masks. It would be greatly appreciated if someone could tell me a few facts about these gas masks, because I haven't intensively studied WWI very much at all. Also, if someone could suggest a link, PDF, book, or anything that could help, it'd be much appreciated.

Title. It seemed like he was a good leader who cared about his people. He wasn't as brutal as the successors