I'm curious to know the United States' foreign involvement during such events as the Civil War, and even before WWI.

Anything would be appreciated.

Both Hitler and Napoleon failed, has anyone succeeded?

I've found some discussion on what happened to the office of Pontifex Maximus during the Roman Empire, but none on what happened to the Flamen Dialis. Did this office die out fairly early in the empire? It appears it already was vacant for nearly 70 years during the first century BCE.

Despite the prestige, I imagined that the many taboos associated with the office must have made it rather inconvenient to be Flamen Dialis.

I've read that Rommel treated his prisoners fairly and was even involved in a conspiracy to assassinate Hitler. Is this true?

Hi, sorry if that question is worded atrociously. I tried over and over to edit this in a way that didn't sound awful. But essentially what I am curious about is this: when a president like Eisenhower, who has held a high rank in the military, becomes president, has it ever uniquely affected the military during their tenure, in ways which it wouldn't have if any other president had been sitting in the White House?

For instance, has the military's size expanded during the presidency of someone like Eisenhower or Grant? Was there more of a hesitation to go to war under these presidencies? Did veterans see better legislation passed during their tenure? Or does it more or less not matter one way or another?

I'm not sure why I'm even curious; we don't have any military men nominated for presidency this year. However I've noticed that it's been quite a while since we had a former military official become president. Heck, maybe Eisenhower was the last one. I'm just curious what their relationship was with the military; if it was at all different from how non-military presidents interact with their armies.

Thanks for any information on my oddball question...

I know that it is very inaccurate. I'm just curious as to how. And what is right.

I was reading "Europe" (which would be better titled as "German Germaneness: Why the fulcrum of European international relations is the German region") by Brendan Simms, and this quote when he was talking about responses to the 9/11 attacks struck me as particularly intriguing:

The geopolitics of the Middle East, of radical Islamism, of Afghanistan and of Europe had finally fused into a single battle space. A process of radicalization which had begun with the Muslim defeat before the walls of Vienna in 1683, and which had been encouraged by Washington in the 1980s in order to protect central Europe from Soviet attack, had now come full circle.

I have been watching "The 60's" doc on Netflix and The Cuban Middle Crisis episode was really intriguing. This led me to wonder if there were anything on Krusvhev's perspective throughout, especially since he basically reversed course on direct relations with the U.S. following this incident.

The city seemed to be extremely vulnerable to Roman incursions from the north-west, being captured several times in the late Parthian and early Sasanian periods. Did any Sasanian kings try to move the capital to a more defensible location, or was Ctesiphon simply too important to the empire for other reasons?

So there's already been some questions asked about organized crime in the ancient world, particularly Greece and Rome, but I was more curious about the less organized kind of crime. Are there records of what we would consider 'street gangs' in the ancient world? By street gang I mean a loosely organized group of people that commit crimes for recreation and/or personal gain, and were based on land in either one or multiple cities. Did these kinds of gangs live in the slums of the ancient world, or were they among the middle and upper classes? Did ancient cities like Athens or Rome have sections of the city that normal folk would say "Oh, don't be caught east of that street after dark"? Were these gangs made up of troubled adolescents or hardened veterans of the lifestyle? Were such gangs ever manipulated for political reasons? Are there any known major events that were caused by street gangs? I know of one major case, the Demes which played a major role in the Nika riots of Constantinople, but are they the only notable example of this? (And yes, I know the Demes weren't so much street gangs but more like English football 'firms', no need to correct that.) What kind of action was taken within ancient cities to quell these street gangs, if any had a chance to truly form? And did any of these ancient street gangs have similar influence and spread as modern gangs like the Bloods, the Crips, or Los Zetas?

Edit: I'm glad for all the answers surrounding the Romans and Greeks, but I'm also curious about other corners of ancient society. Particularly if anyone could answer these questions from a Middle Eastern or Asian standpoint I'd be very interested to learn about that.

Was it as simple as some people disagreeing with the communist government or is it bigger than that?

We all know the stories about the tribes of Africa and South America, who were never before contacted by modern life but what about Europe? Have there ever been cases of european tribes still existing somewhere on the continent?

I'm particularly interested in the British, German, Dutch, Spanish and Polish armies. Information on any of them is welcome.

Any comments on the U.S. Army would also be appreciated!

Being the person most responsible for the early spread of Christianity, and writing a large portion of the New Testament, how much do we really know about him? Did he really write most of the epistles of the New Testament? Was he executed by the Romans? What's actually myth?

I understand that the time, money, and resources to build and maintain the Colosseum was a feat in and of itself, but upon seeing its success did any over cities try to replicate it, even if on a smaller scale?

Sort of akin to how in modern-day America many cities have their own sports stadiums?

I learned my great uncle joined at 17 in '44 and was out in 18 months when the war was over in '45. In that time he became a fireman 2nd class. My husband thinks he got there too fast compared to today's standards. But what would he have been doing?

Why did Maryland vote to cede 100 square miles to the federal government to create Washington D.C. in 1791? What was in it for Maryland? Are there any sources available?