How was the term 'National Socialism' developed.

Ive been watching Downton Abbey and am curious about the terms they use for money, I am familiar with "pounds" and "quids" although I am not positive on their actual value but they do refer to "Packets" quite often as large sums of money. I know today in American Currency we have "slang" terms for amounts of money; 1 Grand = $1,000. Was there similar terms for english currency and if so what were they?

For example, will I cause a commotion when I am walking on the street? Or will I get caught very soon and sold to some slave masters ?

I watched a television show recently that portrays a fictional account of this era and it looks like a fascinating time. Any help? Cheers.

There's a lot of discussion going on right now about whether the Pope should lift the ban on contraception and abortion in order to help protect women from the Zika outbreak. I'm told by Catholic friends that sex that can't result in procreation and (maybe more obviously) abortion are strictly forbidden by the Church. In the case of contraception, is forbidding this more a matter of policy than doctrine? Like, heresy is still not cool, but at some point the Church said "we're not going to respond to heresy by burning people anymore". It seems a lot harder to believe that abortion could be declared okay considering it seems to be a pretty cemented doctrine that this counts as murdering a human being. Are there any examples of quick reversals in doctrine based on the Church responding to a humanitarian crisis in history? What does history tell us about the likelihood that the Pope could call for such radical changes?

Hello, I'm writing an article about Viking Berserkers and I've scoured the net for the answer to my question and I can't seem to find one. Mainly my question is, is there any criteria Vikings had for choosing who was a berserker? Did they get chosen by a Jarl, or inherit it, or just decide one day "Hey I'm going to do that"? Or something else? Thanks so much for your time.

I was looking at my last Harvey Milk stamp and wondering how easy it would be to just print up your own batch of stamps. They do not seem to have any security features, compared to printed money. In its noble history stretching back to Ben Franklin, Has the USPS ever struggled with people selling fake stamps?

I asked this on /r/history yesterday and didn't get any valuable responses:

I am re-reading I, Claudius again for the third time, and I know it is a fictionalization, but that Graves based it on many historical sources.

So my question is, (as far as we know) did Claudius actually hold republican ideals and was he truly limited in enacting them by the threat of civil war or the suppressive power of the Praetorian guard?

NOTE: Republican in this sense meaning someone who favors the republic versus the monarchy of the roman empire.

I keep hearing that the pope started it and that it was a response to Muslim aggression. But which one is true? And is either true?

This is right in the era of colonial rebellions, too. Did the sudden economic growth lead Cubans to call for independence, or give them leverage to win concessions from Spain?

Thought spawned from watching the democratic debate. Reddit will tend to skew towards the Sanders camp so an unbiased account of Kessinger's impact on US Politics would be very much appreciated.

To be clear, I'd like to know whether there's either early records of something that could be thought of as "cancer" or maybe archaeological evidence of neoplasms in human remains.