During the assault on pearl harbor, Japan was clearly in the advantageous position to claim a piece of U.S. territory, what I'm confused on is to why they decided to retreat and fall back, wouldn't have been better to go with the momentum and attempt an assault upon California??

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If Constantinople is called Miklagard by the Norse, then what does the various Germanic languages (Norse, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German, Lombard, Suebi, English, Anglo-Saxon, Saxon, Frisian, Dutch, Visigothic and Ashkenazi (I know that Ashkenazi is not a German language and that their language is Yiddish. But, I am talking about German Ashkenazis)) call "Rome", "Italy" and the "Roman Empire"?

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A book I've been reading touches on some legal matters, but kind of glosses over just what the nature of a court proceeding really was at the time. From what I did gather though, I have a few questions:

• It seems like there were very few public prosecutors. Would a family have to pay a private prosecutor to proceed with a case in this situation? Could the entire process from indictment onwards be handled privately?

• When it came to indictments, how often did the state actually move to do so? There was a lot of talk about "coroner's juries" indicting in homicides. There was also mention of grand juries, but would these be similar to what we have today?

• On that note, it mentioned grand juries were usually composed of the gentry, while the petit jury was usually tradesmen and other middle-class sorts. Was this always true, and why the difference?

• It seems like prosecution was very constrained, and that the kinds of evidence and supposition on motives and the like were simply not allowed, but again, the book was pretty vague there. So how was things like evidence, motive, and the like handled?

Anyways, this is kind of disjointed I know, and while those were some specific things I noted, really, anything about criminal procedure in the period would be of great interest.

Also a pre-emptive follow up, but how similar would it have looked to prosecution in an American court room? Had the legal systems diverged sufficiently at that point for things to have developed separately?

As a disclaimer, I'm not a holohoaxer by any means and find the whole group of them pretty abhorrent. All I want to know is whether there is any truth to the claims that the 6m figure of Jews and the 11m total is too high, just so if the opportunity arises I can educate anyone spreading misinformation in real life or online.

Many thanks

Was speaking today about Imperial Germany's policies and a guy said their policies were civic based. But surely they were ethnic? He didn't say anything after but I thought it was interesting.

Forced Germanisation and the Kulterkampf laws restricted the Polish culture and language, as well as ethnic cleansing by Bismarck in the 1880s deportations. In 1908, Germany legalised eviction of Poles from their properties. Core was ethnic in my eyes.

Anyone else think civic?

Hi, I just finished the last episode of The History of Byzantium podcast and want to continue with British history but there are two podcasts mentioned in the title. Which one would you recommend?

hey folks I'm having a hard time piecing together an answer to the above - just what exactly were the allied forces trying to do? Like, politically, what was their objective, what was their endgame

was reunification ever the explicit goal? or was it just a possibility entertained by some but never expressed? or was it just a general pursuit of the NK forces? or was there no specific objective?

hello everyone

i'm somewhat aware about how there are several types of swords, how there is that oakeshott typology thingamajig and i have this very basic idea about arming swords being one handed (and used with a shield?), long swords being used with two hands (but also with one? like those dastardly bastard swords?) and two handed swords being much bigger and longer and a later addition (used by those fancy pants wearing dudes with rad colorful clothes)

my question is - how much overlap has there been, what's the "sword timeline"? with regard to western and central europe

have one handed swords been basically replaced by the long sword in warfare at some point or during some short-ish period of time, or has it been a slow, mixed process with arming and long swords existing alongside for many decades or centuries even... tell me the history of the sword! (in the outlined region and at the specified time, that is)

So I have been raised in Australia, our ancestors arrived from Werben in 1858. We were told we were Prussian, but now I am studying my ancestry I am told I am Wendish. Surnames are Duschka, Jakubaschk.

What is the difference? How does it fit in? Why would we have been told one not the other?

During my Latin classes in high school I remember being told of an all woman cult that performed sacrificial rituals under the full moon. These rituals included luring men, having sex with them, then killing them. I can find nothing about this on google. If I search Cult of Luna I get a metal band. One wiki article for Luna mentions a moon cult, but no details. Are there any credible sources for this?

A lot of times I see a king being portrayed in the movies, they just sit on their throne in the great hall surrounded by advisors, jesters and the Queen. Is this really the case back then? Is it a common thing for kings to sit on their throne for hours and grant audience to common people?

As the Iranian revolution had not yet happened, Iran was an American ally, but what did/could Iran have done during the war. Is Wikipedia mistaken? Did Iran quietly support the United States in a similar fashion as Canada? Did they send military forces? Unfortunately the article only lists Iran as a nation that supported the United States but makes no mention of them anywhere else. Thanks for any replies!

I'm asking as I'm qualified in a project management framework, and it just strikes me as such a forced, artificial, bullshit method of getting things done.

I mean take Gantt charts. I'd bet paper money not one Gantt chart was used during the construction of St. Peters Cathederal or Edinburgh Castle.