Obviously, all of us were either tought by family or perhaps even driving schools.

But how did the original purchasers of those cars learn to operate something that was so foreign to them? The dealers offer lessons? How did it work?

i realize how bad the title sounds but i'm really asking why china has this complex naming system for emperors I don't percieve Europe or places like France or England to have

Hemp used to be and still is a pretty common plant, what happened to the large hemp businesses once the plant was outlawed circa the 30's?

25,000 Cuban army,200,000 Cuban Militia, 9,000 armed police against 1500 CIA sponsored counter revolutionaries and 8 B-26 bombers.

I understand that it was a failure, but how and why would the US approve such an attack (damaging their foreign relations) against these odds?

To clarify: This is not a question about US anti communist policy but why would the US engineer such an attack and expect any other result, It seems more like a token effort than any real commitment to overthrowing Cuban communism.

Not trying to break the 20 year rule, but I am hearing that the pope's trip and speech to congress are firsts, and it makes me curious about how other popes have impacted American politics.

Are there any records of remedies or cures?

Or another kind of great social unrest? If not, why not?

Most of the work is advice from the author, ostensibly directed at his brother. In the work he bemoans that he lives in the fourth age or generation and details the previous generations of men. Would people of the period actually believe that there was this generation of demigods, and war like beings, and men of silver and gold before them?

Not trying to seem sound or be racist. how did people whom technology wise were are par with the Native Americas Incas and Mayas all achieving building great monuments with little to no metal tools. the boomerang itself needs some complex aerodynamics to work. That to me rule out a stick being thrown and it just caught the wind right for them to refine it from there. the fire piston work by rapidly compression of air to get hot fast but need the right compression ratio. How could tribal people just come up with these simple yet complex tools.

So, I'm wondering if keelhauling was something that happened frequently or not. I mean, it sounds like a pretty severe punishment, and I'v already looked it up for a bit, but it never mentions how bad it really was and how frequently they did it. The sources I found also didn't mention why anyone would get keelhauled in the first place. Would stealing be enough? Would ingorning an order be enough? I'd really like to know!

I am writing a fictional short story about two families in the West who are in economic and social competition, one is a family which runs mafioso-style a moderate frontier town, the other is a ruminant tribe of cowboys who have learned and adopted the ways of the Indians, who roam the lands surrounding the town and stop in every once and awhile. They both consider the other barbaric in their own right.

I need some excuses for tension between these two families and cultural tension is not enough. I am hoping someone can help me identify what some key resources would have been (cattle?) that could serve as a springboard for feuding families in the Old West.

Any other ideas are also welcomed!

If so, how was it regulated?

How was internal travel handled? Was one permitted to travel for the purposes of recreational fishing (internally or internationally)?

What about boats, was it possible to purchase boats for the purpose of recreational fishing?

Hello! So in general, how bad did turks treat Christians and other non-muslims in the Ottoman Empire, for example in occupied Bulgaria? Thanks in advance!

It just seems strange to me that Amber was traded from the Baltic Sea all the way to Babylon, yet there was no trade from China making its way to the Persian Empire? If the Persians knew about China, I assume Herodotus would have also. Was China really that isolated?

"As far as India, Asia is an inhabited land; but thereafter, all to the east is desolation, nor can anyone say what kind of land is there."

Also title typo, uninhabitable desert.

In TV shows and movies, politicians are depicted as super corrupt. Telling people to vote twice wearing different clothes, etc. Is any of this true?

What I mean is are there examples of individuals or governments using 1920s aircraft in WW2? Or WW2-era aircraft in the 50s and 60s? Or 50's era aircraft in the 90s?

It doesn't have to be against air targets, but against land targets would work too. Did 90s conflicts between new countries or non-state factions in the Caucasus, Yugoslavia or elsewhere see people improvising with a make-shift air forces?