It seems like a rather arbitrary metal.

Jesus was from the Middle East and was very likely an olive or dark skinned man. Is there any history of the change in the way he's been drawn or depicted across history?

Pretty straight forward question. What benefit was gained by splitting their forces between two land branches instead of just conscripting everyone into one?

I have tried researching this myself but most articles on Islamic armor usually discuss stuff that was clearly worn after the 7th century. I found one forum that discussed the possibility of them utilizing Roman armor but that's about it.

EDIT: Not sure if this helps anyone, but I came across some old research notes of mine that claim early Muslim soldiers obtained their armor from the following lands: Syria, Iraq, Armenia, and Yemen.

Our phone is about to die and we have a bet to settle. Did the Titanic sink becuase of a flaw in design or becuase a new course had to be plotted out in a short amount of time it ensure early arrival.

Edit: finished the post.

So we have this concept of the Colombian exchange, where different things were traded when the two worlds met, including diseases. But it seems like you always hear about the europeans bringing diseases that destroyed the Natives, wiping out entire villages and peoples. Why were there no diseases like that (say smallpox for example) in the opposite direction?

Many articles, papers and online resources state that the modernised human form has only been present on Earth for 200,000 years but none of them reference the research anywhere.

What study(ies) has lead people to this now seemingly general consensus?

Don't mean to be ignorant. I hear lots of Trump supporters make arguments against BLM and downplay modern black-white relations.

Other races were oppressed and discriminated against in American history. Irish, Chinese, Japanese, Jews...

How did they overcome? Why was the black oppression so bad?

Again, sorry to be ignorant but I'd like to be more educated on the matter.

We currently have five (soon to be six unless HW or Carter drops dead in the next four months) Presidents currently alive. That seems like a lot, since two of them are some of the longest living presidents ever. Was there ever a time with more Presidents.

Bonus Question: Was there a time when the only living President was the one currently serving (excluding when Washington died six months after leaving office)

Apparently the last Presidential Limo given to a museum was the one Reagan got shot next to, in 1981.

Then afterwards, any presidential limo would get "destroyed." How come? Why not keep giving them to museums?

Also, how do they "destroy" the presidential limos? Do they dismantle them and sell them for parts, do they test them in a battle scenario, to see how well the limo would've held up if a terrorist tried to blow up the limo with an RPG or IED or something? Or how?

I was reading a text that claimed their easy money and inflationary policies egged people into Communism, and I didn't know the veracity of this claim, so I thought I would ask the subreddit. Xie Xie.

Also, was it particularly a policy of the KMT, or was it just the inflation of war and a failing economy because of war?

I'm currently working on a project about the Wesley brothers, the founders of the Methodist denomination. The birthdates I've found give both Old and New Styles - which is proper to use? My assumption would be NS, but I can see a compelling argument for OS as well.

• Dear neighbour, would you like to trade your goat for my pile of wood?
• No, but I can give you this mostly useless piece of yellow metal instead.
• Why on earth would I agree to this?

Hello!

I’m searching for books that cover warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy of any class before or during WW2, containing technical details, line drawing/schematics, design and performance details or anything along those lines. I’ve checked the FAQ, though the recommended booklist doesn’t quite have what I’m after.

Any recommendations would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!

I've been reading about some of the capabilities that a modern drone has and it got me thinking about how accurate air bombings used to be. What I'm asking is whether any air force had planned a mission to take out a single person and what kind of measures would have been taken to carry that out.

Most of my knowledge of the conquest of Mexico comes from Bernal Diaz's account, which while one of the best books I've ever read, has some debatable historicity of it's account. One question that's nagged me recently is the source of Aztec's gold, since I'm sure at least official records document large shipments of gold melted down from Aztec gold early on, but most of the precious metals brought back from the New World after was silver. So where did they get it from?

We know Aztecs were a tributary empire, so perhaps their vassals were supplying them with a lot of gold over a lot of time. But were their known vassals ever known to be big possessors of gold, does this hold up? I've heard they were also relatively newcomers to the region, so perhaps they migrated with a lot of gold in their possession as well.

Another indicator, if Bernal's account is even anywhere near true, is how freely they lavished the Spanish with golden gifts, so either they recognized the importance of these new arrivals, and/or had so much gold laying around that these gifts were deemed appropriate for them (a fair amount of time ion Bernals account is spent discussing precisely what the gifts were, the "quality" of the gold, and the disagreements over how it was split up). I suppose none of these impressions are mutually exclusive, so it could have just been all of the above contributing to the nature of how seemingly gold laden the Aztec's were. It's struck me how much they seemed to have but yet not a lot was brought back after.

That said, the Spanish who entered Mexico City for the first time must have been completely awestruck. (before they tore the city down brick by brick in the ensuing fight)