I've seen the photos, so I know he told me the truth. The only extra information that I can add is that he came from a well-off family and was attending Princeton. My guess is that those factors had something to do with it, but that is just a guess on my part.

Did America have something to be afraid of? Was the cold war age of overwhelming surveillance and fear justified?

Perhaps a prerequisite question, does this image of 1950's America exist? Or am I overstating it?

I'm a university history student with a strong interest in Napoleonic history. I'm also part Finnish, and so naturally this kind of drew me to Finland's chapter of the wars. Upon doing some research I found that they were in a war between Russia and Sweden (whom they were still a part of until the war's end) and I thought this would have quite a lot of information, but my only decent resource seemed to be Wikipedia and another website called Napoleon-Series, which is sourced. But where can one find even more information? If not on the web, is there anyone on this sub who could share some facts and knowledge about the war?

The RMS Titanic famously served its first class passengers a ten-course dinner. At its most extreme, some formal houses would serve a twenty-one course dinner. How did they even begin to eat all of this? How often would it be done? Would the wine selection be comparably vast?

Or at least before gas stoves, cars, etc

Hello fellow history buffs! I'm looking for some information on some plane parts I found, they appear to be wooden frames skinned with navy blue painted plywood. They were found near Ewa Marine Airbase in Hawaii sometime in the 1960's. They look as though they were part of a plane that had been shot up. The only problem is I can't find anything about a plane with wood parts stationed at that base. I can post pictures if you think it'll help. Thanks

As the title says, why didn't the scramble for Africa start in the 16th and 17th century on a bigger scale (like in the 18th) than just slave trade, despite the geographical proximity to Europe?

Don't Hungarians refer to themselves with the term "magyar?"

I've been reading some mythology, and the sun god is usually honored for bringing crops and such. How did people know that plants needed light before we knew about photosynthesis? It could be chalked up to "they don't grow in caves", but why not attribute it to the stars, clouds or moon then?

My high school region had 5 schools, all named after NA Peoples: Shawnee, Cherokee, Sequoia, Lenape, and Seneca. My more specific question than what's in the title is which, if any, actually resided in the area in which the schools are, or is it just a vaguely racist lumping of a bunch of disparate peoples together for cute names for high schools?

Here I might show some extreme unawareness, but that's kind of why I'm here.

Did they have money? If so, what were the prices of certain goods compared to the West? Were their advertisements? I've read that they often had shortages of basic goods and that there weren't nearly as many consumer goods as in the West; is that true? Was the packaging on products very different from the West (i.e. was it very plain compared to the flashy, bright colors of Western product packaging)? Did they ever ration food? What were their stores like? Could they even be called stores?

A whole slew of empires (German, Japanese, Ottoman...) were destroyed after starting/entering WWI or WWII, losing everything in less than a decade. Did anything like this ever happen in the period before modern weapons or transportation?

Did any pre-modern empire ever attack a neighbor fully expecting to win, only to find their empire fully conquered/destroyed by that enemy shortly afterward?