Henry Tudor was a direct legitimate descendant of John Gaunt, who is a primary figure in the Lancaster line, and he was presented as a Lancaster candidate. He also married a York, Elizabeth of York. So his line unified the two cadet branches of Plantagenet. Why isn't the house of Tudor considered a cadet branch of Plantagenet/York/Lancaster?

Frankly I don't quite get it.Battles have been fought in colder places?So where did this 'Russian winter ' is impregnable go out from?

There's this passage in Dorothy L. Sayers' "Busman's Honeymoon" (published 1937, set in England), from a letter written by an old Countess:

Not that many marriages can be called permanent these days, but I can't see Peter [Lord Peter Wimsey, who's about to finally get married] exhibiting himself in the Divorce Courts for his own amusement, though, no doubt, if asked to oblige, he would carry it through with an air.

(Which reminds me that my idiot great-nephew, Hughie, has bungled matters as usual. Having undertaken to do the thing like a gentleman, he sneaked off to Brighton with a hired nobody, and the Judge wouldn't believe either the hotel bills or the chambermaid—knowing them all too well by sight. So it means starting all over again from the beginning.)

So, as I read this, Hughie and his wife want to divorce, and "like a gentleman" Hughie is willing to take the blame. He stages a romantic getaway to the seaside with a "hired nobody", in which he is to be caught complete with a witness and written proof, so they can be divorced due to his supposed infidelity. But the judge seems to be familiar with this kind of ploy, and the attempt fails.

Which leads me to asking: Was this actually something people (and people of the upper class, too) did, being willing to be bear the public stigma of infidelity in order to be able to dissolve a marriage? Were there sensational cases of this sort, where the attempt succeeded or failed? Was there public discourse about them? Would Hughie or his wife be snubbed by their peers if they had managed to carry the scheme through?

I'm asking mostly about the setting of the novel, that is England around the 1930s, but of course similar cases from other places and times with a similar legal framework would also be interesting.

And please, if you have literature I can read about this sort of thing, do tell me! I'm not scared of academic literature, footnotes and all, in German or English.

Re-binge-watching Game of Thrones and it got me wondering how birds are trained/selected to go to certain locations.

How was this done historically?

Did something happen to cause the council, and the drastic changes it produced or did they do it for another reason?

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I'm particularly interested in how the French, German, and Russian governments responded to this naming.

You hear a lot about the Supreme Court wrestling with how to interpret the Constitution. Basically, could James Madison have stood up during Marbury vs. Madison and said point blank, "this is what we intended when we wrote the Constitution?"

I notice a lot of churches state that they use the KJV of the Bible because they think it's the best version.

I don't see churches claiming other versions of the Bible (are there other versions?) so I was wondering why they seem to be so zealous about tje KJV.

And why not Greece, for that matter?

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

basically, did the term "arms" refer only to the individual firearms of the time, or would it have been acceptable for an average person to own a cannon? are there any recorded instances of cannon ownership?

(i realize there's sort of a political tint to this question but i think it would be hard to ask a question about the second amendment that isn't political so i hope i at least phrased it in a neutral way)

I know that there were gay men, and to a lesser degree, lesbian women persecuted in the Holocaust but were there transgender people persecuted?

If they were, were they considered mentally ill and as such fell under the purview of Nazi doctors or were they thrown into camps like gay men and women?

Pride and Prejudice shows these landed gentry of Victorian Era England as very wealthy and powerful people in England. Why aren't they so prominent today? Did their fortunes die out? Did they lose power but retain their estates? Do they still exist, just in a much quieter way?

Looking for any information on any culture in the Americas. Especially the Incas.

I am looking for useful resources about early combined arms warfare. I want to research the stratagies and tactics of militaries that had limited implementation of firearms. Does anyone have suggestions for books or webpages?

Also appreciated would be resources for 30 years war era and Napoleonic tactics.

Or does his status as a prophet prohibit this? And if the canon of Islam does prohibit it, how about the community at large? Have there been sects within the religion that permitted or encouraged ridicule of Jesus?

It just appears to me that from Dante to Charlie Hebdo the depictions have been pretty one sided, but I don't know too much about Islam.

Also, please note that I am not commenting on it being right or wrong one way or another within the framework of this question.

Recent archeological discoveries of hundreds of pre-Islamic Christian tombstones, as well as the use of the Christian cross as camel clan-symbols is showing us a picture of that Somalia may have been a harbour of early Christianity. Any idea as to how widespread it may have been amongst pre-Islamic Somalis? Any records from Christian monks and travelers visiting the area?

After the Second World War, the Soviet Union seems to had free rein in Eastern Europe and the communist ideology, as far as a know, has a strong universalist leaning. Was there any plan to make Eastern Europeans Nations (Poland, Hungary, Romania etc.) republics of the Soviet Union?

This may not be the right place, but it's the closest I could think of. Obviously, adding letters is a lot easier when all you need to do it to hold down a key on a keyboard, but I was wondering if there are any examples of it happening when people had to physically had to write down the extra letters?

From what I've read, tea and coffee were introduced to Europe in the 17th century (coffee slightly later than tea). This was decades before the "beginning" of the Enlightenment, so I'm guessing superstitions and fear of things not fully understood were still widespread.

If a drink were suddenly introduced giving consumers a burst of focus and energy, then wouldn't it be rejected as "magic" or something similar?