I'm ignorant and curious.

In short, I ran into a group of reenactors who were cooking with extreme amounts of black pepper. It made the food very spicy. They said this was historically accurate. I'm skeptical.

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I've often read that the German Empire, and particularly Wilhelmine Germany, had some of the forms but not the substance of parliamentary democracy, and that it wasn't until 1919 that Germany had its first fully democratic system of government. But statements like that are often short on specifics. I'd like to know what qualified Germany as only a partial democracy before 1919.

Were the legislative powers of the Reichstag curtailed in some way? Or was its composition broadly unrepresentative of the German population(but at the same time UK had the same situation)? Were civil liberties restricted?

Thanks in advance for any explanations.

So, it's always explained in history classes that Spain and Portugal were economic powerhouses thanks to exploration, but what's never really been explained is what happened afterwards? No one really thinks of either of those nations as huge economic powerhouses nowadays. Did some serious and big event cause the two nations to lose their statuses or was it just some gradual decline? (If it was gradual, any idea why the status wasn't maintainable?)

It's a phrase president Obama likes to say a lot.

I know that Nixon did this in order to win in 68 but lets say he just decides to let the south go. Would he have still won the presidency? Was Wallace competitive in other parts of the south besides the states he won? If I remember he won Alabama Mississippi Georgia Louisiana and Arkansas and I assume did well in other states.

Also why didn't the GOP just let the south go off on its own other than that they wanted to win?

I've always wondered if the Patriots were operating with political legitimacy derived from, at a minimum, the tacit approval of the majority of the colonists, or if the revolution was largely a unilateral action fomented by the wealthy elites of colonial society. For example, did the average colonist get to vote on whether their colony/state would attend the first Constitutional Convention?

I know that Germany needed the oil fields but why did hitler invade Russia. Hitler had stated in the Beginning of the war that he wouldn't have 3 frounts. By attacking kursk he went against that, and Russia had 30 million troops at their disposal

Basically: When were the first cases of bloodletting, and when were the last cases of bloodletting.

Thanks!

As it was only a puppet government, was there much presence of the Wehrmacht in the area of Vichy France? Especially as the opening of another front looked more and more likely? If so, why didn't the push into Germany start here instead of Italy "The soft underbelly". Surely this would have been a easier target for a larger force to advance through?

Would they cancel it? Go on with the show? Would they see it as a sign of disfavour from above?

Hello all. I've visited a number of stately homes in Ireland and the UK, and a lot of these had very fine plasterwork ceilings and candle chandeliers. I wonder did these candles leave a smoke stain on the ceiling, and if they did how were the ceilings cleaned?

I've searched around a bit and can't find anything, and never have had a tour guide who knew the answer! Thanks in advance.