The North Sea, to my knowledge anyway, remained in a stalemate for the majority of the War. Had, say, the British scored a decisive victory over the German Navy, incapacitating their capacity to fight back, could a landing in the style of Gallipoli be feasibly attempted? Say, near Wilhelmshaven or the Elbe, or perhaps even Holstein/Kiel?

Even in your own kingdom, without photographs, how would commoners know you're the king just by looking at you? Well you'd be surrounded by guards and assistants, dressed opulently.

But then couldn't this be faked? And what about meeting royalty from other nations? How would you know?

I am curious as to how 'legal' piracy was conducted by the English during their blockades in the 18th century (against the French). How would they approach a ship? How would they hold the other crew? Would they loot a ship? Where these actions conducted by semi-legal privateers? Was it in any way degrading as the victims made it out to be? How long would they be captured?

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I have heard this mentioned every now and again, including on /r/AskHistorians, but so far have not found any sources or elaboration.

I've been taking a course in Japanese history, and on the surface it seems that Japan skipped the Bronze Age. When the Yayoi period ended around 250 AD and the Kofun or early Yamato period begun, the people went from using lithic tools to iron tools effectively skipping the otherwise common bronze-step. Am I misinterpreting the data and if not; can someone explain why this is so?

edit: It seems I was wrong about this part. The use of iron tools started around the end of the second century, not the third. This means that it started near the end of the Yayoi period, not in the beginning of the Yamato/Kofun-period. end of edit

The logical conclusion would be lacking the materials, namely copper and tin, but we know of 2 minor tin-deposits in eastern China that were used in ancient times (China did have a bronze age) and several major deposits in southern Asia. As for copper we know of some larger deposits in China and at least one in Japan. To add; the Japanese imported culture and knowledge from the Chinese and Korean kingdoms before this time (and they imported iron from Korea as well), so they could have traded copper as well.

I hope someone here can be of assistance.

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After watching the series Vikings, women seemed to feature frequently in battle, was this decided on a personal level or was there a deciding factor behind this?

Obviously Einstein and Bohr were Jews so they left early which I imagine had an affect on the decision making of their peers. The only prominent physicists that I can think of who stayed are Werner Heisenberg, who had a public feud with Himmler and Erwin Schrödinger. On the other hand it seems like most of the significant aerospace engineers and physicians stayed. Why did this discrepancy occur? Did Hitler alienate physicists in particular way?Did Hitler not appreciate the potential importance of the advancement in nuclear physics?

Edit: Incorrectly stated that Schrödinger did not flee. In reality he left just after Hitler barred non-Aryans from teaching at university even though the law did not personally effect him as an Austrian from a Christian family.

I've seen numerous sources claim that a brain injury sustained from his jousting accident in 1536 was the cause for Henry's tyrannical and paranoid behavior. How much truth is there to this-- is it mere speculation or can many of the infamous aspects of Henry VIII's rule be traced back to a frontal lobe injury?

Did they have plans for what to do with Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, etc.? What about stationing troops here permanently, changing the colonial government structure, or anything else of that nature?

Through my high school and college education I know virtually nothing about anything in central, and south American, virtually nothing on India. Hindu and eastern philosophical thought is very interesting to me. Yet, as I have found, a PhD in Hinduism is not to be found except at Oxford even in India. What I have learned about China and Japan is through a European lens and I learned how they became "westernized" through industrialization and colonization. I feel my schooling is one sided. How can I expand my knowledge base by learning about Indian history and Hinduism preferably not through a European or western lens and without a contrast to the European nations of the time period? Edx has 1 course on Hinduism, and coursera has none.

Did Alexander try and impose Hellenic religion on Persians and Egyptians? Was he successful in any capacity?

6 million is a rather large number. How did the allies come to this number?

In the series (both books and TV), basically anybody that had any sort of "official" responsibilities was going to be a family member of one of the houses. Positions like military leadership (even lower level), captaining of the guards, stewardship of castles, and any sort of managerial positions was held by family members of houses.

In fact, when it wasn't, the books and TV made a point to mention it. People like Janos Slynt and Varys actually had plot elements of them not being royalty, and even minor characters who were low born had that as some sort of plot point. This implies that non-royalty having official responsibilities were so rare that when it happens it's a "thing".

How accurate is this compared to actual Medieval history?

With the advent of firefighting techniques, I have to assume that when a forest fire broke out in the past, it spread uncontrolably. Are there any records of forests that were wiped out entirely, or severely reduced in size, due to a large fire? If so, what effect, if any, would a fire of that size have had on the surrounding enviroments?