Interested in gauging how 'common' (for lack of a better word) the current situation in Europe is. Ignoring settling the New World and uninhabited lands, has the world seen a major migration such as the current one to an already populated area?

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If I happen to be an infantryman stationed in France when hostilities break out, is there a realistic chance I survive the entire war, or will I probably just be a victim of attrition?

I'm asking about infantry because I assume everyone's cavalry is completely wiped out.

Subquestion: Are the odds drastically different for any of the major powers?

With Pompey being famed for his miltary exploits and Crassus renowned for his great wealth, it seems that initially, Caesar was very much a junior partner in this political alliance. What was the appeal of Caesar to Pompey and Crassus?

Does knowledge and study of history support your religiosity or diminish it?

Question is pretty straight forward... I'm especially curious as to how wine-bottles were closed off and how they were used.

I am working on a modelling project, and I was wondering if anyone could enlighten me on the situations and frequency in which various tanks during WW2 would go hatches up, with a crewman exposed.

Was this mostly due to a lack of good communication between the crew and supporting infantry, attempting to get a broader field of view, or some other reason?

Would armored crewmen occasionally remain exposed even during combat situations?

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All other major regions in the UK have a major metropolitan centre within them.

Cornwall and Devon can only count on Plymouth (260,000) and Exeter (117,000) as cities or major towns. This places them 33rd and 66th repectively within the UK by population.

It is ofcourse a coastal region - I find it suprising a large port city never developed here to trade with Britanny or Spain and Portugal, or even the 13 colonies due to its western position.

It has the most favourable climate in the UK - milder and sunnier than anywhere else.

I took a trip there recently and couldnt understand why it was so sparsely populated.

Any answers?

When I think of the first civilizations or at least the early ones with written language I think of the rivers they lived on, Tigris, Euphrates, Nile, Indus, Yangtze(not sure if that's right). Anyways, did any early literate civilizations pop up somewhere away from a river.

I know I've heard people make claims like this all the time, including one most recently that Shakespeare's plays were the soap operas of their age. How fair is this characterization? Did Elizabethans make clear distinctions between high and low culture?

I have been told stories from my family about how my great grandmother woul have to hide in the basement when the Villistas were around for fear that they would rape her. Would situations like this have been a common occurrence or was this an isolated incident.

I've only spotted a few books on Sassanid Persia on Amazon, and all of them have mixed reviews. Since there doesn't seem to be one on the book listing here, is there a consensus on a good history of the empire I should look into picking up to read?

What are the reasons for this? Is it simply because fertile lands of Indian Subcontinent were able to sustain more population? What is the contribution of events such as Black death, mongol invasion, world wars and immigration to new world on it? Are there any other factors?

Considering the nation today; was there ever any negative blowback by racist groups in the US by seeing her on television?

Also was there a notable rise in tolerance with racial minorities in television after Star Trek debuted?