Pre-college schools, in particular.

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The potato is an odd crop, one of the few that caused major demographic shifts and social changes based on its failure. Oddly, before becoming a staple in many European diets, the adoption of the potato was resisted by many throughout Europe. In the face of all this resistance, the potato became a staple in European diets.

In summation, how does a crop that had faced widespread resistance to his adoption become a major staple in European diets during the 17th and 18th centuries?

What do you guys think is the most probable reasoning behind the Croatoan mystery?

It seems way more logical to end the calendar year when the sun was at its lowest point. What was the rationale for moving it back 9 days?

From what I have read women were very oppressed in Japan during the Edo Period. Were there any instances of women becoming samurai (including cases of them pretending to be male) or groups of women banding together to work as thieves/assassins/mercenaries/etc during that Period? Or even any women regarded as being "warriors" or fierce fighters?

I'm sure big companies could afford professional security services, but what would an individual miner do to keep his gold safe? How likely was it for a typical independent miner to get robbed? And how well organized were the robbers? Are there any interesting accounts?

Also, if there's anything interesting to note about bigger mining companies, that information is more than welcome too. I'm just really interested to know what a single gold panner did with his few ounces of gold (say, before communities developed and banks were more common).

Quick edit: I should note that I'm currently learning about the Klondike gold rush, so that's typically what I had in mind while writing this question (if that helps)

Also how has the member nations relations with Great Britain changed over time?

More specifically - were castles built in conquered territories because of realist necessity, or because the opening-up of those places led to over-investment and unwise speculation?

I'd like to clarify, it seems Czechs were the only nationality (out of the non-Western Europeans including Germans) to develop a modern industrialized economy. For example, they were one of the few non-Western Europeans to have their own native automobile industry (Skoda Auto), native armament industry (producing the famous Bren gun). Even their tanks prior to WWII were on par with the Panzer I and II's, and were sophisticated enough that they were used in the Wehrmacht, and whose designs were copied by the Soviets. Can this be attributed to Czech proximity to Germany and the fact there were many Germans who lived in Czech lands?

It's interesting because this trial and execution for treason implies that the nation was something real that a monarch could commit treason against, rather than him and his dynasty just having rights to a certain land by conquest, and I'm not sure how far back this goes.

Hi there, as title says. Anyone know that sort of thing? Very much appreciated!

John B. Anderson, a Republican, ran as an independent in 1980 and won 6.6.% of the vote. Reminds me of today's Trump insurgency, but Reagan is nowhere as abrasive as Trump.

I mean, not just "crops grow worse when we don't do this," but if they had some explanation for it.

Was it limited to the upper class? Was it limited to older men and younger boys?

How widely was it practiced? For example was it just more accepted and could be done more openly.

Or could it be that there is a cultural divide where things we consider homosexual they didn't?

With Americans being so anti-establishment this presidential election cycle and the establishment not wanting to give up power, I could see Donald Trump or Bernie Sanders winning the most pledge delegates but somehow losing the nomination through super-delegates or a brokered convention. Has this ever happened in the past and how did it turn out for that candidate?

I know this is probably not the right sub for this but its something that has been bugging me for a while and I can't find a definitive answer.

This is when single shot rifles started to be used, like the Russian Berdan.

What kind of tactics would be used, would they still be using line formations, etc or did the tactics start to become more modern, like trenches and so forth