From what little I know of Dertosa, Hasdrubal tried the same thing Hannibal used at Cannae but he failed where his brother succeeded. Why was this, was it because of better soldiers, luck, differences in generalship skill, or a combination of factors?

Also, I want clarification on a sub-topic of each battle: As far as I'm aware, both carthage generals had their centers collapse, how did hannibal go on to win the battle despite this while Hasdrubal ended up losing?

Besides talking, is there anything else they could do? (Already checked the FAQ)

They already had a foothold in Europe no? Why not just re enforce and push through from the south?

Since there was no legal mechanism for secession, surely some people foresaw its potential consequences. Did any politicians or personalities (of either the South or North) propose some other radical change to the Union, such as calling a constitutional convention?

I ask this because of an odd passage I've found in my reading of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray. The passage in question is located in chapter XI and reads as follows: "Where, the huge velarium that Nero had stretchered across the Colosseum at Rome" (115). Yet, the Flavian Amphitheater was built after the reign of Nero. Wilde was apparently a brilliant classicist, so I find it a bit difficult to believe he made such a silly error (not to mention if this was a mistake, my Norton critical edition also failed to catch it).

Thus, I wonder if he's referring to something else? When did the Flavian Amphitheater become referred to as the Colosseum in English? Did the "Colosseum" refer to some other than the Flavian Amphitheater in Victorian English? Or, did "Nero" perhaps referring to someone else besides the last of the Julio-Claudians in Victorian speech?

I'm reading the Second Norton Critical Edition published in 2007 for reference.

I was just wondering how historical scholarship at large views the Buddha. Regardless of whether he had supernatural abilities, is there evidence that such a man existed? Is it reasonable to think he was real? Or, would the objective position simply be that we have no idea if there is any truth behind the stories of Buddha's life?

Is it still around?

Despite only having found four Early Saxon Helmets, can we guess what the others looked like? -Coppergate -Benty Grange -Sutton Hoo -Staffordshire

How often were face-plates like Sutton Hoo?

Throughout the last century, there have been multiple rumors and conspiracy theories that Anastasia survived the shooting of her entire family by the Bolsheviks. What evidence supports or opposes this theory?

As LBJ was known to be a blatant racist, did he truly believe in the civil rights cause, or were his efforts to pass civil rights legislation largely a part of party politics and public image with the African American population?

I realize the statement itself is about current events, but my question is for all of American history, so I hope this is allowed. Right off the top of my head, I can think of George Wallace in 1968, Teddy Roosevelt in the Progressive Party, and the 1800 election in which Jefferson and Aaron Burr tied for first and Adams came in third. Do these examples not disprove the claim about the current election? Are there any other examples that disprove the claim?

Every now and then you will find a conspiracy guy on YouTube, your Facebook feed or here on reddit. When they aren't talking about Chemtrails or whatever, they always point fingers at that family. What's up with that? I know that they are very rich and somewhat powerful (?) but why are there so many conspiracy theories surrounding them still? How did they develop?

So I recently saw posted a link to a story about how before the advent of AC people would sleep in Central Park and on fire escapes to escape the heat. My question is, was there any other option which might of been too expensive for most people?

I have fruit trees and I used to have a large garden and what I have noticed, is that they don't seem to give me long term yields. Mostly it's about a week of ripeness, before they go bad, or the birds eat them. And the problem is that if I pick them all before they go bad, they usually don't last long in my kitchen. How would ancient people's maximize the effectiveness of their crops? How could fruits and vegetables stay edible to last them through the winter?

I'm aware that the notion of "public intellectuals" (or even of a "public" space) is very modern. I guess what I'm interested in is how much theologians (and medieval philosophers in general) were involved in more "temporal" issues and debates.

I don't know if I should specify a time period, but let's say from the 11th-12th centuries onward, when the first universities were established.

Was it monthly, yearly, once or twice a lifetime?

I know there is no single answer, each tribe was vastly different in war practices. But hopefully there is some literature on numbers for differing tribes.

Herotodus mentions a nation of pastoral herders who challenged Cambyses and whom he described as youthful and living to very venerable age and of great stature. The area he describes them as living is very confusing as well and I find it hard to pin point a general area of sub-Saharan Africa which he seemingly describes.

Celtic Britain appears plenty of times (King Arthur, King Lear, Old King Cole, Brut, etc.), and there are classic works set during the Anglo-Saxon period, in neighboring countries (Beowulf, MacBeth, Hamlet)—but Anglo-Saxon England itself seems to have dropped out of the national consciousness. One would expect that if nothing else, the repulsion of the invading Vikings by Alfred the Great would have given rise to an English epic.

Was the subject actively suppressed by the Normans?