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Once the senate had passed whatever resolution was formally required, what did the process look like?

Was there some sort of investiture ceremony? What sort of religious officials would be involved?

Did they believe that the process itself elevated the dead emperor, or was it considered an acknowledgement of a pre-existing divinity?

I'm mostly asking about the principate in general. Julio-Claudians, Flavians, Antonines, or whatever, though if it changed from one period to the next I'd be interested in learning about that too.

The German Navy maintained a large number of high-caliber guns and lots of sailors. Wouldn't this have been a drain after 1916? Wouldn't the German military need those guns and ammo later in the war? Or was this insignificant relative to the needs of the army?

There is an Essex, Wessex, Sussex and Middlesex. Just wondering, why no Norsex, and hoping there is an interesting story behind it

Basically were there any benefits to Eugenics that we can tell?

I have read that the Danzig Massacres, known as Bloody Sunday to the Germans of the time, have been credited with the inciting event of World War II. I have also seen the timeline of the massacres placed after the beginning of the war, as well as it being claimed the massacres never took place.

Did the massacres take place? How did they influence the German people? When did the massacres take place?

I was recently watching The Tudors, and looking up all of Henry's wives, and the portraits all looked very similar.

Was it an art style of the time? Did people all have very similar features back then - long thin nose, round long face, chubby cheeks, etc.?

How reliable are these portraits as a real representation of their likeness?

Basically this man was very skeptical of the Christians and asked why did God take so long to inform the citizens of the of most populated region of the world?

I remember Christopher Hitchens speaking about this event during a lecture I watched a few years ago.

Sorry for such a vague description. I would like to know the names of the people involved in this event and the circumstances of the meeting. I would appreciate any information you can share or resources you can point me toward.

Thank you.

Were they believed immediately? Hushed up while third parties corroborated them? And which were the first dinosaurs to be discovered?

I would love to see some of the first reactions to what must've seemed like the discovery of a real life, larger than life, monster. Surely, it's the sort of stuff modern day cryptozoologists dream of.

Curious to find out considering Churchill is generally considered a hero by Brits for his charismatic leadership during the war.

What did the pilots of the gliders do after their units landed?

I've read on the Battle of Allia and apparently a major cause of defeat was the fact that the Gauls were yelling out terrifying war screams that played a major role in breaking the Roman Phalanx. However this was before the Marian reforms and was at a time when the Romans were farmer-soldiers so this did not surprise me.

However I also read years after the Marian reforms, when the Roman Legions were confronted with the Gauls and other "Barbarians" there are descriptions of Roman soldiers shaking in fear at the initial phases of the battle when the Barbarians were yelling out their fierce war cries. In some cases Roman Legions were paralyzed according to various stuff on the internet that they cannot move or maintain ranks.

I am curious what makes hordes of screaming Barbarians so scary to even train soldiers like the Romans? Modern military standards would consider the thoughts of fearing an enemy force simply because it screams and yells so much as a mark of poor discipline!

Its not just Ancient Warfare. I have read of the "Rebel Yell" that the Confederate Infantry would use. Granted they were trained and organized as opposed to the Barbarian Hordes, but I'm really amused why Union soldiers would be terrified of this tactic well in fact more dangerous things were taking place like bullets were being fired. So what make warscreams so scary that they could lower morale and even make entire units collapse?

In particular are there any that were found underwater ( in shipwrecks) that had vine still sealed in intact amphoras?

What was the condition of the found vine? Was it still drinkable? And most importantly how did it compare to modern vines in terms of qualiy?

Also if any other substances like olive oil or grain were found in similar manner?

I currently live in Manchester where an entire district of the city centre is called Piccadilly, I know from other towns and cities that this is not an uncommon name, where does it come from? Is it named for a battle or a general?

I was listening to the song "Nigga nigga nigga" by Gangsta Rap when the question "Why you call yourself a nigga" came up, but the answer "Cus I'm a motherfucking nigga" did not satisfy my curiosity.

Edit: I did not mean to categorise all black people and say that all of them would use the word when conversing with each other. I missed a "some of" between the "did" and "the" and I apologise for that.

I saw a post today that featured the joke about curtains matching drapes, referring to head hair color matching pubic hair color. I imagine that most Americans know exactly what this means, and it got me wondering how things spread so widely before the Internet.

I imagine a lot of sayings like this got started in media, and people found it funny and started using it, but without the Internet to unite the humor of the county I'm surprised this kind of thing had any staying power.

If the Treaty of Versailles stated that Germany could not have tanks or an Air Force, then why were there not more repercussions prior to the mobilization of German troops in Poland?

Seems that the League of Nations didn't function in any capacity that could stop a government from war acts