When I was younger my dad told me about me grandpa´s past, saying he was taken to Africa as a prisoner of war (WWII). I don´t know anything about who put him there, where this might have been or what exactly he was doing there. The only thing I know is that he must have been doing some kind of physical labour there. I have not been able to find anything about this and since my grandpa and my dad have already died I am not able to obtain any more information about this from them. I hope someone can shed some light on this for me.

Is there any data, in order to compare different armies? Which soldiers were the tallest? Which ones were the shortest? Was there a difference between, let's say Soviet soldiers and Hungarian or Romanian soldiers?

E.g: Monday comes translated from latin, dies lunae or day of the moon, Tuesday comes from the old English Tiwesdæg, for the germanic Tiwaz (aka Tyr). Likewise Wednesday comes from Old English Wōdnesdæg, for the germanic Wodan (aka Odin), Thursday comes from Þūnresdæg, for the germanic Þunor (aka Thor), and Friday from Frīgedæg for anglo-saxon Frīge (who is likely derived from either or both of the germanic Freyja and/or Frigg). However Saturday and Sunday both come from latin, from dies Saturni (or Saturn's day) and dies Solis (or day of the Sun), respectively. Since German follows this same pattern roughly (except for wednesday, which is Mittwoch, or midweek, and saturday, which is either Samstag, which derives, through a roundabout way, from Sabbath, in west and south german, or Sonnabend, or roughly Sunday eve, in north and east central german), so I'd presume whatever change came fairly early in the development of proto-germanic language, but how did it come about that only some days derived from latin and others from germanic gods?

I'm not really sure how to phrase the question but I've never learned how historians publish their research. As an example I hear books cited on here all the time in fact that's pretty much all that was cited.

But for something like physics on a physics equivalent of r/askhistorians if you cited "A brief history of time" you'd be looked at pretty funny.

Do historians have like just straight papers like other sciences do? Or is most historical research put into books for the general public?

The gap between HMS Vanguard and the QE class carriers saw the RN downsize both its fleet and ship sizes. While we can't talk about the current class of carriers due to the 20 year rule were there those in the navy who attempted to preserve the capability to construct large warships at some point in the future?

Hello, I know this might sound like a stupid answer that could be easily answered by doing a Google search but I don't really know how the UK governing system works and it's terminology do How big was Oliver Cromwell ? Was he like napoleon big ? Alexander the great big or just like any other known person big Thanks and advance

It was first Simpson's episode, but i remember hearing it much earlier.

Also, are they consistent with/do they support the Jesus of the Bible?

Didn't read FAQ, thank you for the responses regardless.

After digging into my ancestry I'm tracing back to a lowland Scottish clan prior to the Plantation of Ulster. I'm not finding good information about where these people originated though.

Would anyone be able to help me understand which group of people became known as the lowland clans? They seem to be distinct in some ways from highland clans.

We have the slang for "buttocks" on one hand, and the archaic term for a "donkey" on the other.

Is this pure coincidence? Is there some connection that links the two terms -- and if so, which "ass" is the original?

All I ever hear about is how terrible the Soviet Union was at pretty much everything, such as the rampant corruption, collective farming not working, and that sort of thing. My question is, in spite of these problems, how did it become a super power?

I have read a lot on traditions adopted from pagans into the Catholic Church but why was Christmas a feast about the returning of the light of God to the world not placed on the solstice to replace the pagan festivals?

If not in actuality, were there at least formal plans for the two nations' armed forces to link up and execute an allied strategy against their enemies? If not, why do we refer to these nations as having had an alliance at all (beyond the simple formality of the documents they signed)? It often seems, when I study the history of the war, that the two nations were "doing their own thing" completely independent of each other.

Hi folks 😊 Asking on behalf of my dad (whom I'm teaching and sharing the value of Reddit with)

Q: Who financed Oliver Cromwell's army, equipment etc during the English civil war?

As the title says. Eratosthenes says the Siege of Troy lasted from 1194 to 1184 B.C. Wikipedia says the modern dates are 1260 to 1180. That's 80 years? If someone could answer the reason for such a big difference, that would be cool.

Also, How does a town last that long under siege? Even basic grain storage couldn't last 10 years of continual use could it? Where did they get supplies? Food, Water, Ect.

And, What are some of the longest sieges in history? Do we have first hand or second hand accounts of what living and possibly growing up under siege was like?

Thank you guys!