I just saw Straight Outta Compton and couldn't help but notice during the concert scenes how many white attendees there were. Is this historically accurate or just a byproduct of filmmakers using whatever extras they could get?

I've read Keegan's The First World War and in it he briefly mentions how imperial Germany's military academies played a role in making its army so powerful. Lately I've been reading passages from Clausewitz's On War (Colonel JJ Graham translation) and now I'm wondering just what was taught in a military academy. Did the curriculum focus on teaching the history of any particular wars? What was novel about Germany's compared to that of France or Tsarist Russia?

Assuming I am an RAF officer that was commissioned in early 1941, if I made it to the end of the war, on average, how many missions would I have flown by then?

Early Japanese RPG video games, like the fist Final Fantasy, are seemingly inspired by western tabletop RPGs, mechanically speaking. AD&D was released in 1979, and the first Final Fantasy was released in '89. What was in the intervening time like for tabletop RPGs in Japan? Was it a large scene, did they get translations of Western rulebooks? Or am I off-base in my assumptions of where they took their inspiration from?

While studying set modules/topics, how able were you to pursue research and interest into areas of history outside of those modules/topics? Obviously not within the University system of exams per se, but independently, perhaps with the aid of tutors?

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It seems to me the amount of money spent, and the fashions that existed at the time, meant that royalty simply didn't throw stuff away after one wearing. But they would travel in very fine clothes and have fun in them as well. Their clothes must have gotten filthy. How were the clothes cleaned?

McClellan wrote his wife shortly after gaining command of the Army of the Potomac:

I find myself in a new & strange position here – Presdt, Cabinet, Genl Winfield Scott & all deferring to me – by some strange operation of magic I seem to have become the power of the land. I almost think that were I to win some small success now I could become Dictator or anything else that might please me – but nothing of that kind would please me – I won’t be Dictator. Admirable self denial!

That passage is clearly written with humor, but is there any evidence that he seriously considered a military coup during his time in command? Even if not, did Lincoln (or other members of Lincoln's administration) fear a military coup?

And, related to this:

What is the historical consensus (if any) about McClellan's behavior immediately preceding and during Second Manassas, and after Antietam? For the former, what evidence exists that McClellan intentionally sabotaged John Pope? For the latter, what evidence exists that McClellan intentionally let Lee's army escape to Virginia?

Previous post was removed because a mod felt that the question had a political undercurrent to it. So I'll ask the same thing with a polticially correct semantic twist: Why did Bosnia & Herzegovina accept such limited access to the Adriatic?

I know of the Native American link to Scandinavia, but what else?

EDIT: HAS/HAVE... sorry to all my English teachers.

They seem lighter and stronger than terracotta, ceramics and glass, and kinder on the teeth than metal. Why and when did we stop using horn!

Like doctors or teachers who taught about eugenics.

I've always heard that Ethiopia is exceptional in the sense that it is essentially the only country which avoided colonization by Europeans. What led to this? Was it due to any specific military tactics of the Ethiopians? Was it deemed not worth the trouble, since it is land-locked?

On a related note, are there any recommended reads about Ethiopian history? It seems to be an interesting country (including but not limited to the fact that Homo sapiens likely arose there).

When the Marseillese calls "come children of fatherland" , would that have meant something to a peasant in some far corner of the country, say Britanie or Alsace? Or would they more likely have a stronger local identity, like the Germans did until ww1?

The Madame de Pompadour's birth name was Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, and although they weren't contemporaries (she died about twenty years before he was born), I was just wondering if there was any known connections between the two.