Does anyone have any information on what happened to the Dunkirk survivors once they got back to Britain? Did they get sent back to their barracks? Or did they immediately get reassigned elsewhere?

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I've heard that prior to the settlement of the US, the native population was massive, but the first visitors (e.g. Columbus) introduced diseases that wiped out massive parts of the population. Is that true?

How was Europe called by other cultures in the antiquity? I couldn't find anything on wikipedia. It only has information for Europe, at least that's what I found.

So what were the names for Europe from other cultures? The Egyptians and the Middle easterns should have had a name? What were they? And if you incidentally know something about its etymolgy, feel free to tell it.

Thx in advance

I know there was no writing (is that correct?), but did any North American tribes have oral histories that they later wrote down? Or are there other ways we might know what was happening politically in the century or two before Europeans arrived and brought plagues (which, I think I'm correct in saying, severely disrupted the political situation?). For example, artwork about famous leaders?

As opposed to say, what kind of pottery they used or whether they were farmers or hunter-gatherers, which presumably you can find out reasonably easily via archeology.

Legally-speaking I mean, not culturally. I know it would be politically unpopular.

Bear in mind I'm British, not American, so I'm not very familiar with the intricacies of American constitutional law. (We had the right to bear arms in the Bill of Rights in 1689, but we just changed it later like any other law)

Would people such as William Wallace, Llewellyn the great and Owain Glyndwr have been seen as terrorists by the English? For instance, Glyndwr sacked and burned many marcher towns such as Welshpool. Would they be considered terrorists by the English? How would the Welsh have seen characters such as William Wallace, and the Scots have seen Owain or Llewellyn? I think this also interesting as many Welsh nobles fought against Scottish rebellions. How would continentals have viewed these characters too? Can a link be made between how modern terrorists in the middle east are viewed by Europeans? That's all for now, thanks in advance!

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By WWII Western Front, I mean only the 1944-45 period. And by casualty rate, I mean per same amount of troops(if WWII had more troops of course it can be more dead). I somehow have notion that WWI was more of brutal all-out strikes involving more men and bigger fronts, resulting in a meat grinder, while WWII(Western Front) was more of maneuver warfare with more precision strikes and more small unit tactics, so less deadly for an average soldier. How true is that?

According to Pankaj Mishra, Frank Ditkotter's works in regards to the Cultural Revolution are "boldly and engagingly revisionist." Is this symptomatic of a wider questioning of Dikotter's works at large, or is this more a squabble between two feuding historians rather than a divide among the Chinese historical academia as a whole?

Was the plan merely to take European Soviet Russia and dig in at the edge of Asiatic Soviet Russia? Or was there an eventual plan to take and hold all of the Soviet Union?

There were reelections in the state houses for one third of the senators just 2 years after the constitution was ratified, but why were these senators chosen to go up first. The constitution gives the senators 6 year terms, but it also stipulates that a third goes up for reelection every 2 years, so how was this done? I can't find any good sources on this question anywhere, and my professors didn't know. Any help appreciated

Like, were the blacksmiths driven to deafness ostracized, were there any inventions to help them, stuff like that. This is more of a showerthought than anything, I'm just curious.

I was just eating raisins, and thought of wine then wondered if they drank it at churches.

If they didn't drink it, what was the substitute?

This is not necessarily based on military strength only, but also in terms of other aspects of a tribe such as its resources, geography, allies, etc.

I heard somewhere that 1000's of things have been proposed as amendments, but only the 27 ones we have actually passed. If 1000's have been proposed, then I'm sure most of those just immediately got shut down or so. But some have to have reached the later stages without passing, right?

Given that they were supposed to go into battle wearing just skins, battle in frenzied manner (potentially drug induced) and be immune to fire and steel.

Were these troops real and how often would they be deployed if they were?

Assuming they were real, what about them was accurate, and how would they enter the battle trance?

I'm the member of an equestrian performance group. One of my jobs this year was a Pony Express act. It was one of the most fun sets of shows that I've done (and also very questionably safe, LOL...I performed with a serious case of post-concussive syndrome and wore nothing for head protection but a wool hat).
I have since become completely obsessed and would like to know everything about the life of the boys who were brave enough to live that lifestyle. I would love to see a firsthand journal if one exists, but even well-researched and accurate fiction would be a great find...my performance season ends in two weeks and it might be fun to read or maybe even write something during my break.