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The battle of Crete is known for being so disasterous for German paratroopers that Hitler never committed to another major airborne attack, why did the battle go so bad for them?

Was it contemporaneous with the Revolution or something we started using much later?

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Studies of the Monotheistic religions often argue from Orthodoxy, but when you look at popular practise in the areas where these religions meet you can find ideas and rituals where elements from various religions bleed into each other.

This got me curious about how where our understanding of Roman paganism comes from. When for example Hercules and Melquart were likened to each other, would this be equivalent to Muslims trying to gain favour of a Christian saint? Would the traditional religious elite consider such practices heretical?

I am writing a paper on my grandfather, my mother and uncles father. This is just for them and not school. I have contacted my local historical society and will be visiting. I am putting an ad in his hometowns paper for anyone who knew him to call me. How else can I find information? He was a WW2 infantryman. Depending on info, I'm thinking 4-10 pages. I want this paper, barring the conclusion to contain 0 of my personal opinion. The purpose of this is that I'm not a wealthy man, not very crafty but want to give them a nice gift. Thanks in advance.

Furthermore, if they were not authorised in military regulations, were they ever worn by veterans off-parade throughout the communist era?

At a time when animation was still in its infancy, did people already think that it was mostly for children when it was still unheard of? Or this was a perception that gradually established itself? And to early pioneers like Walt Disney, to whom did he intend to sell or market his work at the start of their career?

Did the notion of a ''natural'' animosity between the two a have a place in mediaeval Europe? Or was it more due to the rise of nationalism that it was popularized?

Was taught that the Fall of Constantinople cemented the Ottoman's monopoly over the Europe-Asia trade and this economic vulnerability forced the Europeans to search for another route to Asia. How much of this is true?

Came across a line about this when reading about the history of Yemen but the wording was unclear.

The Italian Borgia families we're incredibly influential in Catholic/Papal politics. As a lay-historian, I can't necessarily find any modern branches of the family that are still active. Did the family die out during the Renaissance or did they "rebrand" and marry into other Italian families as a way to hide their influence in the Middle ages?

I saw a post on tumblr a while back (that i can't find unfortunately) about how the automated system of telephones (the one that eventually extinguished the need for switchboard operators) was invented because some guy who owned a funeral home was mad because his wife's competitor was a operator and kept connecting the calls received for his funeral home to her husband's. So he found a way to connect the calls directly, just out of spite. I was wondering how truthful that is, or if it's just another fun anecdote with no accuracy whatsoever.

I recall reading that CS Lewis was deeply troubled by the casual acceptance of usury, but I remember feeling baffled at the time since borrowing is now so ubiquitous and it never occurred to me that it had been otherwise. As I got older and read more, I came across the trope of the Jewish money lender in historical literature (Shakespeare's Shylock is probably the most famous). At any rate, I realized that the Christians were borrowing money from the Jewish guy since it wasn't considered acceptable for Christians to lend money. Lending, as recently as the early 19th century, was as abnormal for Christians to engage in then as it is normal today. Clearly there are plenty of Christians in banking today, and the western economy is largely based on borrowing and lending at interest. At some point the paradigm shifted. So, I'm curious, when did the Christian attitudes about lending change? How did it go from being an awful sin for Christians to a normal 9 to 5 job. Was there a major historical event that ushered in the change?

Did anti-Semitism decrease once the American public learned of the Holocaust?

My brother asked me this question and it got me thinking. The term is so ubiquitous with presidential speeches but I have no clue how far back it's use goes.