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In his letter to Viceroy, the Count of Monterey, in 1599, Don Juan de Onate asks the viceroy to:

"give a license to my daughter Mariquita, for whom I am sending, and to those of my relatives who may wish so honorably to end their lives."

What license is he referring to?

Earlier today I read that many of the early Vietnam war historians were very explicitly anti the war/ maybe even communist themselves, this led to many of them excluding many of the horrible things North Vietnam did which in turn has heavily affect our modern day view of such war, is there credence to this?. For example the My Lai massacre is very well know but not so much the Massacre at Hue despite having a much higher body count. Essentially the question comes down to did the anti war rhetoric blind us from having a more balanced view of the war. Modern portrayals of the war tend not to give any credence to the South Vietnamese government but many of its citizens desperately tried to escape when it collapsed. P.S. I'm not trying to justifying the war in any way, I'm just wandering if things were more complicated and how it affects us today.

I'm watching Lord of the Rings: Return of the King and a significant plot point involves a message being sent between two cities by sentries lighting a series of fires across a mountain range, passing along the signal. Obviously, Lord of the Rings is not exactly a realistic movie but I was wondering if there were times and places where signals were transferred over large distances like this? If so I was wondering how reliable it was and who would be at all of the different locations, ready to light the fire signal?

Or, in other words, was there any genuine US government policy of the 1930s that would result in anybody receiving monetary compensation for refraining from growing a crop? And was it really lucrative enough that somebody would do what the character is described doing, and buying up as many acres as he can lay his hands on in order to not grow Alfalfa on those too?

I am a conspiracy theorist. I am researching mental asylums in the United States. Many of the first asylums where built in states with populations in the few thousands. These buildings are huge complex built exquisitely. It would have taken hundreds of men and large production facilities to make the stones not to mention the foundations. My point is the story doesn't match. Many of these buildings where torn down but some still exist. This is not limited to the sutra baths in San Francisco and Moorish Bath house in Montana. Can someone explain this? R/rbaltimore help

I’ve been looking a bit into mythology (mainly Greek) for fun in the past month or so and I thought it would be interesting to read an old text/actual source (instead of just Wikipedia). I’ve stumbled into the existence of “Bibliotecha Historica” compiled/written by Diodorus Siculus. It sounds extremely interesting to me and I really like the premise of the ancient author having compiled the history and mythology he has seen/heard from around him. I do, however, fear that maybe it will be a bit misleading for someone like me who honestly doesn’t know a lot about the subject, as it seems that he has been very harshly criticised over the years. Do I need to already know a lot about the subjects he discusses or can I just jump right in blindly and casually?

When looking at the Second World War, it seems quite straightforward and agreed upon that it was doomed for Germany from the start. However, from what I've seen for the First World War, it does not appear to be as simple. Looking online, I've found many sources disagreeing on whether America was vital in the war effort for the allies and responsible for their victory, or if they just jumped into a winning game. There also seems to be more of a chance they would not have joined the war at all, in comparison to the First World War.

My question is this: did the success of the Allied Powers depend on the USA? Was the war already in its final stages of being won by the time the USA joined or was it still a stalemate that could have fallen to either side? Also, what effect did the more secretive support the USA provided prior to April 1917 have? Was it critical to the Allied War effort?

I'm having trouble finding anything about what thoughts were on premarital sex before the Old Testament.

I just finished a tour of the George W. Bush Presidential Center. One exhibit is about the September 11th attack, and you can read the minutes of President Bush during that day.

While going through the minutes, they have reported that President Bush called and talked to Senator Biden, but it doesn’t appear that he called any other Senators.

Is there a reason why President Bush called a Senator from Delaware during that hectic day? What was talked about during that call? Has President Bush or President Biden talked about that call publicly?

Pretext: I'm a fiction author. Considering applying this epithet in a writing.

Most of the epithets in the Medieval period carry connotations that were specific to their contemporary cultures, so I'm sure there's multiple answers to this question. I am curious how this epithet originated, what its most popular interpretations were, and what kind of attributes or deeds led to a person being bestowed with it.

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Also, bonus question: Were there any historical epithets that would be appropriate to the founder of a noble line, or a person of lowborn status that had been granted land and lordship?

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Edit: I see the sticky comment about fiction writers. To clarify, I don't write historical novels. I write RPG supplements. Dungeons and Dragons and stuff like that. I'm not expecting extreme academic rigor here. Just some guidance to find inspiration.

From my understanding, arround 60k (International brigades) people went to Spain to contribute to the war effort against Franco, but did Franco's side recieve any real volunteers from neighbouring countries. If so, how come it is not as widley know as the role that the International Brigades played in the war? What role did these volunteers play during the civil war? And after the war did they stay in Spain or did they went to fight in WWII?

First off, do we have reason to think the tree planting worked? Or did the drought just end?

How many trees were planted? Did they survive? Were they planted on Public land? Degraded farms?

Where would we find these trees today?

I came accross this rumour online and when I googled a little deeper there seem to be a few hair/beauty websites mentioning this, but I can't find any references. As a Greek I've never heard of vampires as a thing we ever traditionally had as a notion. As far as I know it's a myth imported from the west in the last couple of centuries.

Is this assertion true in any way, and if so what is the full myth and references associated with it?

From Thomas Madden's "Concise History of the Crusades."

When Richard sent a message to Saladin announcing that he had to return England to put down his brother's rebellion, but that he would soon return to finish his crusade in the holy land:

"To this Saladin replied through the appointed messengers that, with his holy law and God almighty as his witnesses, he thought King Richard so pleasant, upright, magnanimous, and excellent that, if the land were to be lost in his time, he would rather have it taken into Richard's mighty power than to have it go into the hands of any other prince whom he had ever seen."

I feel like this is unlikely.

Can there be any truth to it? Are we going on Richard's word? What evidence is this based on?

Today we use the Gregorian calender which numbers years forwards and backwards from the alleged date of the birth of Christ. But before Christ how did historians and the every day person count their years?

Is there any general books focused on this for ancient all the way to early modern economies? Most specific historical academic books assume pre knowledge on these things

How do I learn about the production of coins, clipping, debasement, effects of circulation, how international currencies were converted, how taxation works and effects the economy. How and why new coins were made, what the purpose of coins in different metals was, what the effects of different weights and purities was, what the effects of having no small change or conversely having no big value stores etc.

Are there any books on learning basic eocnomic principles for bullion based medieval to early modern economies