I've been to Venice, and right now, there's no land for farming. Even back when some of the land was still exposed, it seems too small to sustain a city-sized population. So has Venice been trading with neighbors for food since the earliest days? They can't have had farmers on the mainland, because the whole point of going to the island was to avoid raiders on the mainland, right?

In modern times in many places casual sex is normal. It isn't unusual for people to have 5-10 (or more) sexual partners before they get married. Is this a modern phenomenon due to effective contraception, or did people in the past also have multiple partners? I'm not talking about kings who kept harems and concubines, I'm asking about the regular citizens.

I hope this is the right place to ask this. Why is Stonehenge not buried? Why did it not have to be excavated like so many other ancient sites?

Hi there,

I read that Roman Legionaries retired after 20 years of service.

My question is what percentage of Legionaries made it to retirement? Also how many engagements would those men have to live through over that 20 years?

I'm asking because of people and youtubers (Skallagrim for example) have an interpretation of combat I don't think necessarily gels with the idea of retired Roman Legionaries.

Surely if their interpretation is correct almost no-one would make it through more than one engagement. (This is a different question for a different time)

Thank you.

Daniel.

If possible I would love to know the exact time and mean of change and how the new methodess spread.

TL;DR: What're your favorite books on WWII and/or military history?

Hello!

I'm finally finishing up my BA in history and I'm thinking ahead to grad school. I'm considering specializing in WWII or military history and I would love to read your favorite/recommended books on the subjects. If you have time, I'd especially love to hear from anyone who's a history professor and your experience in the field as that's currently my end-goal.

Thank you!

After searching online and finding nothing I have now come here to see if there's anybody knowledgeable with these types of gadgets.

On it reads OHNESTROM, TURBOZET, and PAT MADE IN W. GERMANY

Any information would be greatly appreciated

Why when people talk about the "awful art" of today they call it modern art and not contemporary art? Modern began during the 19th century. So why this continues to happen? Did something happen during the 20th century and so people confused these two types of art? Or am I wrong? (Sorry if it's not the right place to ask, new here)

More specifically, is there any way of finding out what weapon he would have been issued? I will hopefully be buying an Enfield rifle next week, and I'd like to get the type that he would have had. I have seen photographs of other battalions in his regiment with both Long Lee Enfields and SMLEs, but I haven't (yet) found one of his battalion.

For reference he was in the 8th Battalion, The Border Regiment, based in Carlisle, Cumbria (UK).

After an attack was ordered, and soldiers went over-the-top, crossed no-mans land and were able to successfully clear and occupy the enemy trench, what happened next?

Did that newly taken trench become the attackers new front-line trench, pushing no-mans land back?

I'm having trouble picturing how this worked, considering there were several lines of trenches on each side, and they went on for hundreds of miles from Switzerland to the North Sea. I know that the front line moved very little in this war, but it seems unlikely that it would even move at all with both sides dug in like they were.

Can we make any socio-economic generalisations? I mean, was it more popular with rich, middle or poor people, urban or rural, slave or free, Italian or Hispanian or Greek, etc?

I had read the other day that Mussolini was reluctant to commit to Nazi race laws and that only in 1938 did he strip Jews of their citizenship. How much of this was from external German pressure vs local/personal desire?

A bit of background - my parents moved to Canada's Northwest Territories in 1971, and spent three years there as teachers in Fort Providence and Fort Resolution. I was born in the summer while they were down south again, but I spent most of the first year of my life in Fort Resolution. So I'm interested in how these locations came about.

With the Inuit being nomadic (as far as I know), it seems likely that these locations were chosen purely by the Europeans. But maybe they were previously selected by the Inuit as known fishing areas or something like that.

Edit: I mistakenly said Inuit throughout when I should have said Dene. Same question though.

In cities like London and Pittsburgh, the impacts of industrialization were immediate and obvious. Was there any talk at the time of this phenomena affecting the world - or regions - on a more general scale? In short, what did the scientists of the day believe would be the consequences of mass industrialization?

I remember reading about a post concerning a particularly horrible Japanese "concentration camp". I don't have a lot of information on it but I think they tested diseases and unconventional warfare tactics there. The Japanese govt doesn't teach any students about it, but that's all I remember.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

With food shortages and rationing, what was the availability of dog and cat food? I'm interested particularly in urban dwellers, as rural/farmers likely had more locally provided sources of food for their pets.

Either info on Axis or Allies would be interesting, but as stated before, especially near the end of the war with bombed out areas and severe infrastructure damage, did that hamper the availability of food sources for especially pets?

Thanks for any insight.

I am confused on who the "citizens" are in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen because I know that it was not referred to the woman during that time since their declaration came out 2 years after. Please help, Thank you.

I know there were plans to continue the war so I don't mean in an alternate history sense, my research has just failed to find anything about Allied plans post A-Bomb failing a surrender?

Would the US have continued to drop atomic bombs? Would they have considered the A Bomb strategy a failure and continued to plan the invasion of the Japanese mainland?

Seeing how planets don't shimmer/blink, did they ever think it was something else than a star?