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I remember reading that the English had trouble getting enough arrows in their wars with France.

Egypt, a place with many fewer trees than England, fielded thousands of chariots, presumably carrying archers.

Where did all the arrows come from?

What was the early American liquor trade like generally (e.g. relative price per unit, variety of selection, volume)? It strikes me that today we associate liquors with specific regions (Kentucky Bourbon, Carribean Rum, London Gin) would this always have been or might our hypothetical Bostonian have had access to Boston-brewed variations of the above? Would anything have been locally-brewed in Boston?

How different might my drinking preferences be from a frontiersman in Tennessee, or a Londoner?

Are there any records of indigenous peoples talking about depression, suicide, hallucinations or even psychopathy? Can anyone recommend further reading?

Think I got it off QI ages ago, and told a work colleague today when we were talking about roads in cities, he told me I was talking rubbish.

I was under the impression that the city streets/ roads basically grew in height over time, due to the constant application of manure etc. and chippings to cover it. To the point where ground floors of buildings were no longer ground floors over a century or so of this process, as the road/street essentially grew? Thus explaining those weird windows that face the ground of pavements in big UK cities etc.

Is there any way of validating this, I've scoured the internet to no avail :(

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Would I be legally able to live and work in the country of my choice, as long as I wasn't a member of a particularly unpopular religion/group? Would I have any paperwork to file? If I just showed up in a ship off the English coast, would anyone be there to 'process' me? Would it make any difference if I wanted to move to a non-Christian country like Istanbul or Cairo? I'd love to know the answer!

More general background interest here: with all the debates about immigration controls in Europe and the United States over the last couple of years, I'd be very grateful for some historical perspective on the question of when and how general purpose immigration restrictions came into place in Europe. I'm somewhat aware of specific restrictions on immigration by particular groups (Jewish people, people from China) in the US and Europe at various points, but I don't know of any wide-reaching systematic policies.

What did he do that has been remembered positively? Negatively? What books would you recommend on his presidency?

From Conspiracy theories on topics like UFO activity at Roswell and the second JFK shooter to modern 9-11 truthers and anti-vaxxers, it seems that conspiracy theories beginnings date back to about the 1950's (or perhaps I'm just not aware of conspiracy theory references older than that). Are conspiracy theories a relatively recent development? If not, what are some older examples?

My history teacher said that the father was name cornelius africanus and the son was named cornelius africanus junior but on the internet it doesnt say that.

Russia had about 180m people, japan 50, italy 40 UK 50, france 40 Germany 60, austria bulgaria 50, etc. How come the ottomen had such a low population?( around 20 million, of which 12 million were "ethnic"(muslim) turks) The same thing could be said about arab countries, in the 1900's iraq had for example 1-2 million people ( 40 million today) I know it might be factors such as health and medical improvements, but i dont think it should be that much of an extend that it makes the arab and turkish population so little? India for example had around 350 million people in the early 20th century,(india was extremely underdeveloped) while modern estimate the arab population to be much much lower than their european counterparts.

I read the wikipedia article on the senator's assassination, and that of his assassin, Dr. Carl Weiss. Interestingly, besides the description of the assassination itself and the two men's funerals, no mention is made of the doctor's motive. What prompted him?

In light of Donald Trump's recent comments - and I do realize this is completely past the actual point - I'm actually really curious what he's referring to when he says that's it's great to not fall out of the bus like Gerald Ford. I tried googling, but all the results are referring to the recent video.

If I was a time-traveling southern slaveholder from 1789, and I traveled to have a dialog with my 1860 slaveholding counterpart, would we have any different views on the philosophical justification of slavery and the necessity of it?

I'll grant that I don't know much about farming, but I'm curious if there were gender roles attached to daily jobs like plowing fields, milking cows, and so on.

Yes, medieval Europe is a broad time period. I'm very sorry.