Hi all,

In the UK, from my understanding, 19th century 'working-class' could expect something in the region of 10 pounds a year. This works out at around 6.5 pence a day. While currency subdivisions existed (I believe the smallest coin in common use was the farthing), this only gives 26 'coins' to be spent during the course of a day.

Assuming a significant portion were expended on rent, how would a labourer buy a single pint of ale? Half-pint? Loaf of bread? Pint of milk?

Looking at common wages today, one can assume that 800 pounds a month is the minimum working class salary. This leaves 2,600 pence a day, with a pint of milk costing 45p. This kind of value cannot be represented using 19th-century worker's wages, due to the lack of sufficiently small coins.

So did people buy in bulk? Were basic living items substantially more expensive, with rent being cheaper to offset? Did people negotiate in a more ad-hoc manner, such that one would buy all the food required for the day with a single coin, from a single vendor? Did people buy 4 pints of ale in the pub in 'rounds', by buying a large jug to share, with the expectation of reciprocation later?

As an aside, is this one of the reasons that the pound tended to be higher-valued than most other currencies, simply because it had more divisions, and could thus be used to represent more items of 'cheapest possible good'? (240 pennies to the pound, 100 cents to the dollar)

(Forgive me if I'm totally off on all the costs, I expect that a pint of ale would probably be more like a penny anyway, otherwise our current beer costs are horrificly expensive).

Also, super bonus points if someone can cover earlier periods of history! I just figured we'd have more information on the 19th century.

I can't only find sources that don't go into detail much. I need sources on Tempel of Saturn, Arch of Septimus Severus and the Arch of Titus.

Seen from a childs view. Are German/Austrian children taught (both in school and by their parents/adults) that they were on the "wrong" side, as you will be taught in countries that belonged to the Triple Entente/neutreal (like Norway, where I live).

Is Alsache-Lorraine still a disputed territory? In the sense that German people will tell their children that it actually belongs to Germany. Same with South Tryol, is there still a vibe in the Austrian/Italian population that "they took this from us"?

Will a Belgian/French child have an attitude towards German/Austrian children if they have been taught about the war by their parents/teachers?

These are quite specific, but what is the general vibe of the populations in both sides of the war?

In speech class the other day, my teacher who's a history fanatic made the claim that one of Wilson's ideas was for the League of Nations to become a United Nations with an army. However, I can't seem to find anything to back that up.

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In the sense, how can we connect their conception of God, or their myths as products of their surroundings.

In the western world, it is clear that Monotheism is absolutely dominant. Ever since some bronze age thinker decided that there was but one God, named Jaweh, some three thousand years ago, the preponderance of western thought has been completely preoccupied with this idea of one overarching god.

Whatever it's adaptive purposes have been, is it inevitable that human society would develop in such a way as to require God as a single entity? The Greeks and Romans had an extensive and complicated hierarchy of deities, and yet they died off, killed by this new God and his followers. What impact, if any, did conversion to Christianity have on the spread of Roman culture? The empire was nearly at its end, and yet one emperor decided to convert to a little known and probably reviled religion, presumably for some political gain. I'm sure whole volumes could be written describing the fall of Rome, but to what extent did the conversion to Monotheism effect that fall?

Is there anything in the historic literature to suggest that Polytheistic societies were doomed to irrelevance, or was Monotheism such a powerful idea that such societies gave way, perhaps even willfully, before the idea of a benevolent, personal god who seems to care less about History than about the problems facing the believer himself

Clearly Western history has been completely dominated by its acceptance of Christianity and it's tenets. It's hard to imagine a world in which there wasn't a scary Jewish God standing astride the whole world and punishing it for its perceived faults.

Perhaps this isn't the correct venue for these thoughts, however I simply wanted to attempt to better understand the undercurrents of our present culture. I don't intend any of this as an attack on any particular religion. Since civilization, as we know it today, arose in the west and has inherited the belief structures therein, I wonder then why the Eastern cultures never rose to any considerable prominence. Even Eastern thought, based entirely on a Polytheistic belief structure has eventually taken on the qualities of the West's obsession with the Abrahamic God and all his vagaries.

It seems as though there really were a God predisposed to helping history through its various trouble spots, although with his own agenda and his own ideas about how History itself should unfold. Such such thoughts are all too likely human fantasy, but somehow this idea that there is something much greater than ourselves has haunted history and influenced its development, even if inadvertently, refuses to die.

In the different retellings of the Robin Hood legend, the character of the Sheriff of Nottingham seems to vary in terms of his authority and social standing. Sometimes he's subordinate to the local nobleman, while other times he's the lord of his own manor. Sometimes he lives in his own castle, while other times he seems to be nothing more than an elected (even if by corrupt means) commoner. Is there any evidence or basis for what the actual authority and position of the Sheriff of Nottingham would've been during the 12th century (when the most popular of these legends take place)?

I've read that the remains of around 1200 Roman villas have been found in Britain. How many would you guess were there in total, or what percentage has so far been found?

Also even if it was never understood what was the first encounter with radioactive material?

Follow-up question: How did Washington feel about political parties that prompt him to warn about their 'evils'?

Before the Bill of Rights was ratified were the liberties that were guaranteed in those amendments protected in any way for the citizens of the United States? Or were these rights assumed to be protected in the Constitution?

I understand that the ninth Amendment gives us protections beyond the Bill of Rights, but was that implied prior to their ratification?