I understand it was a matter of simply, openly paying $300 to get out of the draft, but did doing so have any sort of appreciable social impact, after the war, on the people who did?

While so many countries supported the Northern Alliance. I haven't been able to find any solid info on this. Thanks

Would they, for example, grant the soldier that dragged him out of the bunker the title of Hero of the Soviet Union? Were they prepared to carry out a show trial in Moscow?

Prior to the Civil War the US federal government's means of income were tariffs and excise taxes on things like whiskey. How did the US government actually collect that money? Was the US treasury department in charge of it? Did they send men out to farm and ports across the nation to inspect things coming and collect the necessary due?

Just rewatched Indiana Jones with my little cousin and was curious

Did any one city-state (such as Bergamo or Brescia) take precedence? What kind of source material is there on the Lombard League? In the individual battles, would the alliance step in to assist, or would it be a singular city versus the HRE be the norm?

I believe I saw this mentioned in this very sub a few months ago but I cannot recall specifics for the life of me. I remember someone discussing reverse engineering and using a captured American bomber as an example.

The bomber had been repaired quickly due to a stray bullet and had a large steel plate welded to the wing. The Russian engineers thought it was some sort of design choice and their knockoff copies of the plane all featured a plate in that location on the wing.

Is this a thing that happened or am I going insane?

I was taught in history that people signing up together in whole towns to form a single battalion was initially encouraged, but then stopped in favour of splitting people up to prevent moral crashing at home when said battalion got wiped out by a single machine gun.

I was never told anything about what it was like to be in the town at the time (either as a visitor or as a resident). I'm talking about the British side, but I wonder too whether it happened in France, Germany, etc.

I see this thrown around a lot which sounds weird considering that afaik the Crusades were a series of religious wars. But then again I'm no expert in that period.

Hi, so as far as i know, Ireland and Wales are the only ancestors of Celts, while England was/is populated by Anglo saxons but what about Scottish people, which ancestory do they have, are they ancestors of normans?

I recently watched, Hidden killers of the Victorian Home, and it mentioned that many of the green items in the Victorian home were made using arsenic. The results seen in the video seemed ghastly but wasn't clear how many people became ill/died as a result of these items (mostly clothing and wallpaper) When I, a layperson, think of the Victorian era I think of green rich rooms, would that mean many homes had this green wallpaper?

It seems weird that Italy would go after Austria but not Switzerland, especially since Switzerland was so much weaker than Austria.

The same goes for Germany. They were trying to unite all germanic peoples, so why not Switzerland?

How, specifically, does Chaucer criticize the authority of the Church in The Canterbury Tales? Obviously through satirical means, but what aspects of the Church is he specifically attacking/why?

Any personal insight or helpful links would be much appreciated.

How did the ancient Egyptians actually store large quantities of grain? Did they keep it in bins? Pots? Were there buildings made specifically for storing grain?

How did fruits become part of the gambling culture, since they're painted on most slot machines i'm wondering, why fruits?