Mayans and their pyramids and Easter Island with their Moai.

It seems quite silly for an entire people to not know they need to save some wood for more important things like food production.

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So stuff like Pork?

I (and I think many others) have heard a good number of claims about how fantastic English longbows were, and how they were superior to firearms. Why then did people adopt firearms? Some of the claims on the rate of fire and range of longbows (10 arrows per minute, 248 m) have them outmatching firearms that were in military service in 1895 (Like the Berdan Rifle). It seems to me to be absurd to think a Russian soldier in 1895 would be better off with a longbow than a rifle, or that everyone for ~450 years were all too stupid to use bows, so what is it that I'm missing?

Additionally, what other sites in Europe or elsewhere have a reasonable claim to being the burial site of an apostle or early church leader, and what evidence is there for those sites? For example, there's a legend that Saint Matthew passed through Central Asia on his way to India, and founded a monastery on the shores of Lake Issyk-Kul, now in Kyrgyzstan. Is there any support for this beyond local legends? Ancient textual references or archaeological evidence?

I'm sorry if this delves into the FAQ of ethics during the Middle Ages / Chivalry period. I'm not looking specifically at knights and the chivalric code (although obviously they held each other in higher esteem and importance than regular soldiers) as much as armies / nations at war with one another

I have a friend from college who once told me that his communications teacher informed him that when radio call signs were first being distributed there was a world conference in London (the International Radiotelegraphic Conferences at the beginning of the 20th century). America sent a delegate who was instructed to get U for the western half of the country and S for the east. But when he got to London his cabbie got lost trying to find the conference and they arrived late. As the story goes, when he got there only K and W were left. Is this true?

EDIT: Changed conference location from Paris to London

Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos were occupied by France. Burma and Malaysia were occupied by the UK. Thailand, even though surrounded, never had any serious issues with imperialism, and in many cases they either simply received recognition from the Western powers, or, in the case of Malaysia and Laos, were given provinces.

There were small Left wing insurgencies, and the Communist Party, being almost as large and popular as Vietnam's, practically ran a large portion of the country as a breakaway state. But the insurgency more or less petered out by the 70s.

As recounted in the diary of Ebenezer Townsend, Jr., "supercargo of the sealing ship "Neptune" on her voyage to the South Pacific and Canton"

I remember a story where US .50 cals on P-51s could penetrate the bottom of german tanks by bouncing/ricochet shots through the thin belly armor.

Jordi Bilbeny, an historian known for his far-fetched and whimsical theories, claims that a series of characters in Spanish History were born, in contradiction with the official theory, in the territories of the Crown of Aragon instead of the Crown of Castille or Italy. Such persons include:

-Christopher Columbus (Barcelonese instead of Genovese)

-Americo Vespuccio (b. Aimerich Despuig, cartographer of Columbus' expeditions)

-Hernán Cortés (b. Alfons of Aragon, lord of Cortes, illegitimate great-grandson of John II of Aragon)

-Miguel de Cervantes (b. Miquel Sirvent, from Valencia)

Etcetera

He teorizes that the Spanish Inquisition was responsible for the counterfeiting of the official documents, records and other papers to legitimate the conquista of the Americas as a solely Castillian campaign; and to build a Spanish sense of nationality around the Castillian culture to facilitate the introduction of the absolute monarchy.

My question is: Could the Spanish Inquisition (whether they did it or not) change the written records and oral traditions so much that as soon as a century later nobody remembered anything but the official version? Did they have this much power over the knowledge?

This was stated in an old Simpsons episode and I wondered since then on its truth.

I'm thinking of fighting in heavily bombed cities during WW2, but I guess this could be the same for other wars such as WW1, Korean and Vietnam wars.

In cities like Stalingrad there was a lot of fighting in and around factories, which I guess is where most of the exposure would be. But also in every town involved in fighting with moderate damage in any country they would be in contact with asbestos. Also throughout the countryside in farms and small villages.

I have read that there are many health issues related to sailors as this material was used a lot in ship building and transporting the materials on a large scale during wartime, so I'm not interested in the navy side of it. But it seems to me the army would have far more exposure by those soldiers who fought in any urban environment.

Has there been any major studies on this?

Were health issues related to asbestos at epidemic levels among veterans decades after the war?

Were they destroyed to slow communication between the UK and US during the war? If so, when? And how did the UK and US react?

I have a task at my School about if the germans deserved to get treated like they did after the war. I tried to find the numbers on how many People the gremans killed during the firste world war but couldn't find it (because I suck at researching). Pls help

I read in Anthony Tucker-Jones's T-34 The Red Army's Legendary Medium Tank (2015) that:

Although he consigned the Red Army’s tanks to an infantry support role (which spelt disaster in 1941), he at least helped provide a tank that would ensure final victory.

But from what I understand from other places, the US used the Sherman mostly in the infantry support role to great effect.

I know that heavy tanks are best used for breakthroughs (with the exception of the British infantry tanks), but what was the best way to use a medium tank?