This is a pretty cool story. My aunt found it in an old family history book about one of my relatives. The claim was that he nearly killed George Washington in battle and that after missing his point blank shot an American soldier intervened and was about to kill him. The claim is that he flashed a Masonic sign to George Washington and that because of this Washington told the soldier to spare his life and insisted that he be taken in as a POW. The story continues that Washington came to visit him and ensure he was being treated properly. The last name of my ancestor was Darley if this helps at all.

I know that verifying the story itself would be difficult but in particular is there a history of soldiers of opposing sides of the American Revolution sparring one another because they were both Masons?

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My second proposal would be hiding removed posts in a thread.

Another handy thing could be unanswered and answered flairs. A more wide use of flairs overall.

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I'm building a diorama of the Battle of Berlin. What models of aircraft were flying over the city in the closing days of the war? What kinds of formations were flown? Were Dorniers and Me-262s in the air? Should I include Soviet, French and/or RAF craft? If so would they be flying in formations with each other and the USAAF or flying separately? I know this a pretty broad question, so any further reading anyone would recommend would be definitely be considered! Thank you!

The Iraq war gets talked about a lot in us politics with one side say it was justified and the outer side saying it wasn't. I don't really want to take a side on that without knowing the actually history of his reign witch most people don't seem to know much about. Two of my friends got into a heated debate about it, one for the war the outer against witch got me curious about the topic.

I am looking for a history of him and his rule of Iraq. I am also looking for a good book on his opposition within Iraqi during his reign, in peculiar the kurds. Are there any good books on the kurds in general?

I am also curious about his family, there doesn't seem to be much information about them at least on the internet or wikipedia.

Wasn't it kinda the other way around during the Classical Antiquity?

Samson famously asked his Phillistine guests: "Out of the eater, something to eat; out of the strong, something sweet". The answer is "What is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a lion?".

The riddle is unsolvable, and unfair by contemporary standards, because it's based on Samson happening to see a dead lion with a beehive in it.

How much do we know of the riddling tradition of Samson's time/the time people were writing about Samson? Would Samson's contemporaries/the original audience for the story consider the riddle unfair?

Hi All, I'm an academic in the field of computer science. My colleagues and I have recently started asking, in very non-academic terms, what would happen to our field (and the internet) if there were to be a generalized collapse of the society that our tools and systems were built in. So aide my reasoning, I'm hoping that you all can explain how this happened during the biggest fall in the west, Rome's decline into the middle ages.

1. What are some examples of technology that were lost during the decline of Western Rome, and why did those technologies, in particular, fade away?

2. Are there any works I should know about dealing with technology loss during a societal decline?

My intuition is that technologies are lost when they are no longer relevant to the new situation (and this is seen in computer science broadly, see the number of COBOL programmers in the world) but I'm a layperson and could be wildly off base.

In the History of the World Part 1, Caesar is portrayed as overweight. Is this accurate? If not, which is what I'm assuming, why has the idea of Caesar being fat developed?

I've been pondering this question for quite a while. If the Male version had both cannons and machine guns, what was the point in creating an exact copy solely with machine guns?

Merlin and Morgan le Fay are often potrayed, in the present, as the wizard/sorcerer archetypes, doing everything we associate with magic: pointy hats, spellbooks, wands, and appearing in Harry Potter (by name only). Obviously that's not how they first would have appeared in the 11th or 12th centuries.

So: what was the nature of their "magic" when they first appeared in literature and how does it relate to contemporary conceptions of the "supernatural?" Also, as suggested by her name, is connected Morgan le Fay connected with fay, as in fairies?

I see that the 1903 a3 was issued along side the m1 garand so how did they chose who got the m1 garand and who got the 1903 a3 and also how did the Germans and Russians chose who got the semi automatic rifles and who got the bolt action rifles.

I had a lecture today and I didn't quite understand or catch some of the reasons the progressive Left supported eugenics.

Usually, eugenics is seen as some sort of right-wing idea, but what reasons did the left have for supporting it?

I read the The Horse, the Wheel and Language recently and was bedeviled by the discrepancy between the BP and BCE dates given. BCE dates are Before the Common Era, meaning dates relative to the our current calendar and generally derived from non-carbon-dating methods. BP is Before Present and means years before 1950. BP dates are carbon dated. The 1950 reference is because that was when the carbon isotope distribution began to change because of nuclear testing.

The problem is that when the author gave both BCE and BP dates for an event, subtracting 1950 from the BP date did not give the BCE equivalent. There are some known sources of error in carbon dating, but these did not seem to be nearly enough to explain the large differences in the dates.

What explains this discrepanacy?

I think I heard it on Hardcore History as an explanation for why German troops didn't invade Paris directly, but it was only mentioned briefly.

Any pictures, maps, or other explanation would be very much appreciated!

To my understanding Europe was unaware that there was a continent across the Atlantic. Given the relatively narrow Bering Straits and the Aleutians, was the same true for Eastern Asia and the Pacific?

While I have no doubts he was harsh in war, I have never heard the claim the claim that he ordered the rape of children until recently. I have my doubts about this, but was ordering is there any evidence that points to this being true?