Stereotypical jewish names like Goldstein or Rosenberg are often composited of german words like "Gold" and "Stein".
Since the religion orginally started in an hebrew-speaking area, I'm wondering why german names are now associated with them instead of hebrew names.

Hello /r/AskHistorians,

I've wondering about the battle harness found in some fantasy sub genres. They type work typically by by fantasy barbarians e.g. He-Man or John Carter. It's a harness that goes over the shoulders and crosses in the front. I was trying to figure out if this was drawn from history at all or a invention of fiction authors. Thank you for your time.

“in 100 years, God will raise up a man whose calls for reform cannot be suppressed.”

Hi guys i tried looking for some info on this subject.

Is there any historical evidence that this statement was really made or is this a later claim (after Luther).

Any interesting side info you have on Hus or the Reformation is a bonus

Sorry for any mistakes I am not a native English speaker

In Thomas Kyd's "The Spanish Tragedy," (written in 1587) there is a character called the Duke of Castile. However, at the time the lands of Castile were part of the Dominion of King Philip II.

You can't be the Duke of an entire Kingdom, can you? That's having a Duke of England as well as a King of England. Philip II wouldn't have needed a Duke to act as a Viceroy, because he lived in Madrid, which was in Castile.

Why did Thomas Kyd name the character Duke of Castile? Was he just uneducated, or would there have been an historical Duke of Castile who the character would correspond to irl?

Why do people "swear like a sailor", what was it about sailors that made them swear more than the average person?

I have a strong understanding of axiology. Decent grasp on the main figures in philosophy of science. However, I have little knowledge of everything else. Would love to learn about any philosopher(s) that stands out to you.

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I'm specifically looking for sources discussing the Battle of New Carthage. I've been looking for other primary sources but I've found none. Even the bibliographies of all the secondary sources I've looked at have nothing relevant. So, am I missing something, or are those two really it?

In other words, did Shakespeare ever write of 'going to the hospital?' Or did George Washington ever write that a soldier must 'go to hospital?'

Dropping the article in front of other seems like a stereotypical fake Russian accent. In American English, believers 'go to church' or 'go to temple.' When and where did these exceptions for the use of a definite article before certain, apparently 'special' objects of the preposition arise? When and where did they fall?

I'm interested in learning more about Muhammad the Prophet during his time as a merchant, in order to write an essay. Would it be possible to find out how much his time as a merchant and a manager of his wife's business influenced the writing of his Islamic law and Surahs? Any help finding academic sources to use for citations would be greatly appreciated.

In many different polls (even of historians) he is usually in the top 10 American presidents. Is this due to his extraordinary use of power? What are some reasons he is so greatly admired by people? Even if you just explain some of his actions in the context of the time it might help elucidate his current appeal.

Follow up question. What do we know about their life style? From what I see in what little photographs there are on the internet it seems like they were relatively sophisticated masons.

My parents are, unfortunately, very easily manipulated by sensational rhetoric and unsupported claims to God's will acting in the world. For example, their newest argument for Trump is that "God, who had more use for Samson than David, has a plan for him. He is repentant and God intends to use him for something big. The recent reveal of his locker room talk is Satan attempting to keep him from office." Aside from what should be obviously wrong with this argument, I should point out that no evidence is given as to why this is so clearly Satan revealing things. (I'm actually agnostic, but for the sake of debating with them, I try to argue from a religious perspective.) I should also mention that they don't even attempt to defend him any more. It's purely apologetic. How can one even argue that?

I was just wondering if there were prominent texts expressing a similar popular argument for past demagogues and personality cults. Just to try and show them that religion can be abused to convince people of things.

Thanks in advance for the help!

So, from what I have read, the Napoleonic wars were the last time the infantry formed squares to protect themselves against cavalry, so I have 2 questions:

A) Am I missing any conflict where soliders did square up to meet a cavalry charge?

B) What changed to enable infantry to defend against such a charge without a square?

It seems that the sword was considered the epitome of a proper warrior's weapon for centuries, until wide-spread plate armor brought about weapons specialized to defeat it and then of course the period of musket levies. Today we retain it out of symbolism, but what properties made it rise to prominence over spears or other weapons that were also used in antiquity as the medieval weapon of choice for serious combatants? I imagine a lot of the discussion of the elegance etc is all post factum to whatever functional advantages it provided to the various cultures that selected it as their weapon whose survival still very much depended on their talent at war.