I've been thinking about the ways that some religions portray their End Of Days myths as great battles with distinct sides. In a world where some exposed to Christianity choose to worship Satan, this makes me wonder if similar practices arise in other religions where some might choose to worship their traditional Gods' enemies directly.

Were there worshippers of the deities and beings that opposed Odin, Thor, and Heimdall at Ragnarok? What form did their worship take?

The answer might just be chance but it's something I noticed in that for all the Presidents after Eisenhower until the chain is broken by Reagan and then even George H.W. Bush afterwards all has served in a US navy in some capacity.

Assuming it's not the vagaries of chance, why is the navy relatively over-represented especially amongst the Second World War veterans considering it was by manpower the smallest service during the conflict?

I’ve seen people and books mention the fact they existed in passing but nothing ever delved deep into what they might have looked like. The idea of lost settlements in the lesser known isolated deserts of Eurasia frequented by people from around the continent working the old transcontinental trade networks sounds so otherworldly and full of mystery that I’m surprised it hasn’t made its way into popular media before. Did they actually exist or was it just passing words and exaggerated stories of people returning home from foreign lands? Thank you.

I'm a 22 year old line cook, in the US. I wanted to become a sous chef but I love history.

What do I do to become a historian? Do you get to specialize in a field of study? How much does it cost?

While other nearby countries may have same-sex marriage (Taiwan) or limited legal recognition (e.g. China, Japan, and Vietnam), they tend to not be as open to LGBTQ people as Thailand, especially in their culture. What is the historical basis behind relative Thai openness to LGBTQ people?

just find a curious little thing while searching for other informations in some encyclopedias.

between 1953 and 1954, Italy lost about 500 km² of territory but there is any war treaty for italy during this period? how tat happened?

And I guess, also, what lead to its decline?

I'm curious, I can't seem to find an article on it but I remember reading something that historians being the nerds that they are (love you all)

Tend to use the "they were roommates" so there is no disputing with other historians and arguing over modern labels.

If one historian wants to say the person of interest was Bi-sexual and another wants to argue lesbian or sapiosexual, etc then you can bypass all arguments by not making any assumptions, sticking to the hard truth and just say roommates and "lovers" if you are confident enough about letters between them.

Obviously this would also naturally be an issue of sex education and feminism to boot. But I remember there was reasoning on way it's still done this way barring extreme evidence even in college curriculum and even in liberal source materials.

So Question #1 ) Longshot : anyone remember reading something like that or better at googlefu to help find it?

Question #2) Is there anything someone could point me to for like ethics of historians or something like it where it would support what I'm remembering? Basically that it's bad form to presume sexuality?

I'm curious as to why Germany delayed their invasion of France for over half a year. It would seem more rational to me for them to immediately turn west after Poland fell while France was still mobilizing that fall and catch them even more off guard than they did IRL. Was Hitler afraid of getting bogged down in winter and stuck in a WW1 scenario, or was the Manstien Plan not fully developed after Poland's fall? Giving France an extra 8 months to prepare seems kind of risky from a military point of view.

What was it like getting to and from work as a Soviet worker?

I've heard that the Nuremburg trials were recorded. Where could I watch them?

Would someone familiar with both of these religions (e.g. a trader or diplomat) have been able to recognize that they worshipped the same God? I'm not talking about society at large, and I imagine clerics on either side had reasons to ignore the evidence, where perhaps an educated (or worldly) layperson might not?

This might sound stupid, but did people get health problems like cholesterol or high BP and other problems we see today linked to high intake of alcohol consumption and did they die of alcoholism?

Most people know that in Pre-Colombian America; advanced Native states were typically city-states more than anything. While pretty intriguing and presumably very fortified for the time, did the Natives ever build anything like castles in their time?

If so, what are some (good) examples of this?

I've been getting into druids lately but i heard that everything we have on them can fit a a single sheet of paper ill gladly read the author that writes that sheet the best can anyone recommend some?

Or am I the only one that feels like questions don’t get answered 😓