Just wondering, in the Middle Ages and like 1800's people had lots of kids, today people don't have that much it seems for me.

My knowledge of French regions is based on a vaguely remembered day of high school French class, and my USSR knowledge is based on Wikipedia, so I may be misunderstanding things. Is there any significance to the countries' choice for administering themselves? Were there major dissenting voices in either situation?

I'm assuming having the possibility of another sovereign nation bordering us would be a cause of interest to mainstream America.

It's all before my time, and the books I've read, including school textbooks, focus on the South. I only have a hazy idea that the North was terribly racist by today's standards, but still better than the South.

Reading the Wiki page doesn't really explain why it has three legs or the significance therein. It just states a bunch of history regarding the appearance of such a creature in Chinese and Japanese imagery going back to the Neolithic age. Is this because we don't know or am I just missing something?

Or any sort of high-ranking Asian before (or during??) the Civil War?

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From what I understand, at the time of Partition and Independence of India and Pakistan there were around 500 Princely States in existence. The British gave these states a choice: either accede to India or Pakistan or remain an Independent State. Surprisingly none of the States decided to remain Independent. Within two years all of the states except Sikkim had acceded.

The question is, why did all the rulers of the Princely State decided to give up their power, title and independence and instead chose to accede?

Edit: Were not we're.

Basically just like the title says. My parents always said that Christians were (and still are) the most hated group in the world and have been hunted and killed since it started and that the persecution continues today. In Rome for example, were Christians really thrown to the lions for being Christians or were they thrown to lions because they frequently broke specific laws and that's just how criminals were punished? Were Christians really arrested and murdered in China?

So many things they've told me ended up not being true I don't know what I can believe about this

Since I was little I always heard the name "Black Beard" when pirates were mentioned. What made him stand out so much among all the other countless pirates.

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The only Native American settlement I can think of pre-New World is Cahokia. However, when you take a trip down South, you see the Olmecs, Zapotecs, Aztecs, Mayans, Toltecs, Incans, and many others I'm probably failing to mention. These are full grown empires, whereas the Native Americans were largely tribal, hunter gatherer based.

If it is to be believed that the first Native Americans migrated over the Bering strait, then wouldn't the North Americans have been there for much longer? And wasn't most of the Mesoamerica Jungle and abundant foodwise, therefore negating the use of agriculture? And it's not like domesticated animals played a part, they had the same lot. North America maybe even had more animals for domestication.

Hello, everyone. Odd question, but:

I'm trying to help a friend out. They have a PhD in history, experience as a museum curator, and experience running a reasonably-sized nonprofit. I offered to assist in the job search, paying special attention to museum work, and to see what I could find online.

Where would you recommend that I begin?

Is this simply a convention in film, or is it linked to older stories about demons/monsters? I couldn't find anything on google.

I read a long time ago that standardized time zones emerged from the transcontinental US railroad system in (approx.) the late 19th century and a need to create uniformity among times for the purposes of a railroad schedule.

But, prior to that, people were still traveling between time zones. I'm thinking specifically of transatlantic/transpacific passenger vessels, where my understanding is, depending on when we're talking about, it could take several weeks to a month to cross the ocean.

Assuming there's some sort of clock onboard the vessel, how would that be adjusted as they travel into incremental changes in the light? Using the example of a ship sailing from England to America, as they get further west, the sunrise and sunset would start getting later and later to the point where it would be happening at what classic timekeeping would consider midday (if they didn't adjust the clock). Would it occur to them to change it one hour at a time? Or do it in one fell swoop once they got close to America? Would people find it strange for the light to be changing like that? Would the find it strange to change the clock?

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The Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) has the nation's longest light rail system and opened the first line in 1996. This question concerns the planning stages before that.

Given that the system is long for a light rail system, and is primarily aligned along freeways in a star configuration - all lines lead to downtown with no lateral connections between the legs until downtown, it seems commuter focused to bring people from the suburbs to downtown. Why then, was light rail selected? Why are there frequent stops through 30+ miles of low density suburbs in each direction where most riders are driving to the station? Wouldn't medium rail with fewer stops have made the system more competitive with driving times?

Are there any resources available to learn about why these seemingly (to me) poor/bizarre choices were made?

Was there any special word in Latin for their political beliefs?

If so, what were they and who were their leaders?