Following a previously successful discussion on WW2 naval aviation yesterday, I've encountered another hitch in my reading.

What exactly was the function of a "Seaplane Tender" as used by the IJN and USN? By the size of the tenders themselves they don't look large enough to carry a very large compliment of seaplanes. We're they just for resupply and refueling? If not, how did they manage to carry a worthwhile number of planes?

How did seaplanes make it to the actual AO of a battle? We're they hauled, or did they fly out and refuel on site?

What advantage would a seaplane actually have over a conventional aircraft? I'd imagine that they would save on limited carrier runway space, but did the planes themselves have any other advantages?

Thanks!

Hi, i'm 18 years old, and in the past year I gave the test that's necesary to enter any university in my country. To sum up: to study History at the best university in my city i needed 650 points and i got 639. Now i took a whole year of break so I can reach the necesary score easily. But now i'm concerned about my capabilities because when i'm studying I easily forget things that I'm supposed to already learnt like dates, definitions of some ideologies, events and their importance and things like that. So I would really appreciate some guidance or advice, maybe i should try another carreer related with history idk. I really enjoy reading this reddit and books about world wars, native history; and I believe that I MUST do something that i like for the rest of my life. Thanks for reading beforehands and my apologies for the bad grammar

Title gore, I know.

I.e, was there eventually some sort of convention that formed with electors only voting for Habsburg successors, or was voting entirely disregarded, with the role of 'elector' becoming a mere title?

For convenience of readers, the text is:

The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a Tax or duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person.

which apparently describes the international slave trade in a way that is perfectly opaque to me.

Did the s-word make slavers feel awkward or what?

I'm sitting here waiting for my eye doctor and I began to wonder how people with vision as poor as mine lived before technology gave them the ability of corrected vision.

Does anybody know this? Perhaps it's the wrong sub.

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After WW1 The British Empire was America's strongest ally so im baffled as to why they would create such a plan to wage war against their friends.

I read Gildas' De Excidio a while back. Wikipedia seems to claim he mentions British dress, diet and everyday activities.

I don't remember any of those things. I gave it a brief glance over again and can't find anything that Wikipedia claims.

Am I missing it? Is it the translation?

Apologies if this breaks the 20 year rule, to my knowledge no recent presidents smoked, but I could be wrong. Edit: If any recent presidents do smoke, who was the most recent, prior to 1996.

I believe piracy started to die after the golden age, but what was the last known act of piracy in the americas?

I'm talking about the Irish resistance to England and what not.

I think this is a very interesting part of history that no one talks about very much and I would like to know more about it.

Does anyone have a good book list on this topic?

Hopefully somthing digital or that I can find in a library (I'm a student and therefore not wealthy)

I know the basics about communism and the IRA/Provos but I want to get a bit more detail.

Actions against the government and SIS response. Activity by the SAS was a big part of the clean up.

Were the SAS in herefordshire ever directly attacked?

Thanks!

I hear the Chinese system of logograms is extremely difficult to use; that Chinese kids take a lot longer to master writing than their European counterparts.

Korea developed the Hangul script, which is said to be one of the simplest and most logical phonetic scripts in the world. Why hasn't China done the same? I hear they've developed a few, like Bopomofo and pinyin, but they don't see regular use outside of academia.

A friend is citing a faculty resource page from Colorado State, and saying the claims are therefore legitimate. But surely precolumbian drug trade would've made the history books, can /askhistorians shed some light on how accepted this claim is? $50 is on the line..

Da Vinci died in 1519, so that would mean the Americas would have been discovered for 27 years.

I understand information travelled slow during that time. But given that Da Vinci is an scholar and interested in mathematics, and science in general. Maybe he could have a backchannel to Columbus expeditions.

Skimming over the history of vikings, I saw that historians say they actually found America (modern day USA) first. Why didn't they colonize the land, similar to how they set roots in Scotland or Ireland/

I suppose Pinkerton was also well known for providing Lincoln's security detail.

I lived in New Orleans and only saw a "vampire" once in my life. You know, stick on fangs, "goth" Victorian clothes, angst. For the most part, anything you see about vampires is portrayed as being in the Victorian ages or in the early 2000s .

1. During that time, was there ever actually a vampire witch hunt or any real fear of vampires?

2. Also, did eastern European countries really have such a dramatic fear of vampires as the History Channel likes to portray?

3. Are vampires real or are than any accounts of REAL vampires (not Vlad Dracula, we all know that story)