From what I've read, almost all of those devices (like the Apple newton) were failures, but were there any PDAs made by obscure companies that were actually good and sold well?

Just wondering this because of the stereotype (if you can call it that) that English was spoken like this hundreds of years ago. Apparently, you add "-eth" at the end of every verb, so "speak" would become "speaketh," although it's the other way around because "speak" is the modern word.

Is there any truth to this? How did it originate? It reminds me of the stereotype that Americans have of Spanish speakers: every word in Spanish ends with "-o." And that's clearly not true, so is this "-eth" thing something similar? If it's true, why didn't they just drop the "-eth" in the first place if every word has it?

Was there another point in history where the control of Malta heavily influenced the outcome of a war as it did for the British during the North African campaign of WWII?

I'm primarily interested examples from antiquity, but any time period (Crusades, Early Modern, Napoleonic) would certainly be interesting.

Trying to find a word to describe how it feels when we are as close to past perspectives as we can get?

Basically I would like to know what the year "0" was for Romans ( if they even had such a concept) and why it was from that year. If there were other calendars for which you know this I would also be interested in them.

For example, what was their role in society/their social status? What was their historiography like? How would they find sources?

I've been wondering this for a while. Why haven't I yet heard of a society where women dominated? I mean, there might be small tribes scattered around, but they're nothing compared to people like the Mayans, Aztecs, and Harappans, which were male dominated as far as I'm aware.

Did they exist? Do they still exist?

There are dozens of collections of ancient Greek inscriptions from stone slabs (stelai), ostraca (potsherds), and pottery. As only an amateur historian knowing only a small amount of ancient Greek, this looks like a secret world of knowledge I never knew existed. But it seems like this world is solely visited by classicists. Probably much of the inscriptions are useful more for spelling and meaning of Greek words, and it makes sense that this is not translated; anyone who studies the spelling of ancient Greek as a scholar doesn't need a translation. But many of these are things like tribute lists or public borrowing, and surely people who don't know ancient Greek might want to read this.

The only translation of any inscriptions into English I have found is "Greek Historical Inscriptions, 404-323 BC" by Rhodes and Osborne. Do any other collections of inscriptions with English translations exist?

I'm already going to pick up Bede's Ecclesiastical History, but I want to know what is the best one today with the most current scholarship.

On his first voyage (1768-1771), he had two jobs: 1) Take astronomers to Tahiti to observe the transit of Venus. 2) Try to find the "fabled" Terra Australis and map it.

Why did he, among many others in the Admiralty and Royal Society doubt the existence of the Continent when it was well documented that Abel Tasman had discovered the continent 127 years prior? Cook admired Tasman and had already read much on the Dutch sailor prior to heading out to the Pacific.

I recently watched the trailer for Designated Survivor starring Kiefer Sutherland, and it got me wondering. Has designated ever been really important? I researched and saw that the first designated survivor was in 1981. Well, what changed to make us have a designated survivor, and what was the procedure before this?

Forgive me if this is the wrong place for this, if you have a better sub please let me know. I'm learning about my blood line and have been reading up on Gaidhlig and it's usage. I've started watching news, TV series and listening to news to get an ear for the music of the language. I know the language was (is?) persecuted and I've heard references to Gaidhlig speakers being considered underclass. Can someone point me in the direction of information on this, I haven’t had much luck on my own. I'm interested in learning to read it (so I can better research) but I want to understand the historical weight of what it means to understand it and what true speakers went through. I'm to understand that many people think it's a dying language and I want to know why. Any help would be appreciated. Tapadh leibh!

For instance, there are often Slovak and Czech placenames/translations of place names in the northern parts of those three countries, as well as mentions of large populations in the 19th century in a few books I've read. What gives? Were they settlers during the Austrian domination over those lands? Or are they older populations?

Were there legends about the Olmecs, Teotihuacan, or the Toltecs?

Is it possible to see Antarctica from South America, or was it just theorized to be there?

When I think Socialist/Communist, really all I can think of is Marx or Russian Socialists like Lenin or Stalin. If I was An American socialist in the 1890's, what would I be reading exactly? What would be the central books and works? Would I have preference toward American Socialists, or German?

It seems like a decently funded person would have enough resources to counterfeit a seal to cause a ton of trouble, or reasonably disrupt the government at the time. How was this prevented?

If so, what happened to the women who couldn't find an eligible husband? Were there any notable effects on the culture at the time?