Also, has the Solutrean Hypothesis gained some acceptance among historians/archeologists? Sorry if this isn't considered history related, I don't know where else to post.

I have recently been learning about India under the British colonial system and it seems relatively one sided to me. How did India prosper of benefit from this? Also how did they suffer from this system?

Hello everyone, I'm currently reading Conquistador by James Stirling and there is a reference that my google-fu couldn't explain. When talking about a frenchman emigrating out of france (during the cuban missile crisis) "When [he] arrived, if he managed to dodge both de Gaulle's 'bearded ones' and his ex-friends from the OAS."

I know, vaguely, what the OAS was (a right wing group that tried to take over the government when they felt the current gov't was giving away the empire.) but i'm baffled by the 'bearded ones' some sort of secret police?

any insight would be appreciated

PS a quick search for OAS didn't turn up any results in the subreddit search, so i hope i'm not asking something already answered.

EDIT my dad helped where google couldn't. the french translation isn't barbus but barbouze, pluging that into google gave me some info (it seems they were gov't side irregulars that targeted OAS members) but i would still love to learn more.

As unlikely as it was, if anything went wrong during the mission did the United States have any protocols in place to prevent atomic weapons from falling into the hands of the Japanese?

Archaeologist recently uncovered the gatehouse into the city of Gath. Gath was the ancient home of the Phillistines and the Biblical character Goliath. Goliath was described as a giant, and champion of the Phillistines. Is there any evidence to support unusually tall humans among the Phillistines or others in the region?

Edit: I realize that I neglected to specify that I meant the 10th and 9th centuries BCE.

I have several questions pertaining to the use of Radios in the 2nd World War. First off, how was the disposition of radios handled from country to country over the course of the war. Were they given out at the company level? Platoon? Section? Secondly, what spectrum were most communications being made in. HF? VHF? UHF? Did the preferred spectrum vary from country to country? Lastly, how did the different nations handle things like masts and repeater arrays? Modern western armies often set up masts which are easily portable by a single light vehicle, which is often a dedicated radio truck, was this the norm during the 2nd World War as well? Thanks!

I can understand that sustaining life was more difficult back then, so maybe it just wasn't practical to raise children with disabilities, but why have a law requiring the death of the disabled, why not just leave that decision up to the parents?

The Japanese colonial empire seems similar to European colonial empires in a lot of ways, and was pretty big. Countries today that once were part of the Japanese empire (e.g., Taiwan, Korea) don't seem to have significant Japanese-speaking populations, though.

Also, what kind of tasks were required of them during the war from both the host country and the origin country?

edit1: Ok cool, so the staff either left or were detained before being traded.

edit2: What happened to the embassy buildings themselves? Once we were at peace with Germany, did the (new?) ambassadors get to go back to the same buildings? Was anyone afraid that we've planted bugs inside the buildings while they were unoccupied?

EDIT: I'd just like to say that even though his comments have been immensely divisive (Have a look at those votes), u/AlfredoEinsteino has been immensely interesting in his thoughts. Whether or not you agree with them, or believe they're missing the point entirely, a large amount of work has been put into supporting the minority position (Or at least coming from it). And that's commendable as far as I'm concerned.

I'm familiar with the fact that the Gates of Janus / Temple of Janus was opened when at war, and closed when at peace, and that there was great public fanfare attached to this act. What I couldn't find out was why, in particular, Janus would be the god for this? Was there special identification of Janus as either a war deity or peace deity? Did the doors merely serve as a sort of yellow ribbon, to visually show that people were thinking about the war, or did it have greater spiritual or social significance?

I understand that in the 1930s, Hitler and other party members began instituting a single party state from the bones of the Weimar Republic. But in the run up to the dictatorship, to what degree do historians describe the change as democratic? Were there particular key points, like when Hitler gained the chancellorship and Notverordnungen powers, that "flipped the switch" on the government? Or were there still in place the mechanism(s) of the German democracy? From what I understand, the Weimar Constitution was still in place up until the end of the war in Europe.

I don't mean for this to be quite so broad. I understand that looking at the history of democracy, there is the real problem that democracy is a kind of nebulous concept. And, of course, I don't want to imply that just because Germany was a democracy before (and even during some) of Hitler's reign, that makes the whole of the German polity a special brand of villainy. I've read Mann's The Dark Side of Democracy, and recognize that making the world safe for democracy is much more prickly than Woodrow Wilson let on (to say the least).

I've been reading Ian Mortimer's excellent Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England and stumbled onto a question that was outside the scope of his book. Mortimer discusses the prevalence of fish in the medieval diet for religious reasons, especially among those who could afford it, and the complexities of making fish widely available inland. He mentions salting of course, as well as river fishing and fish ponds, but he also stresses that in England few places were more than 2 day's ride from a port and fish could be shipped by boat live in barrels. I'm curious, then, how did other, more inland, Catholic countries keep a steady supply of fish? Were saltwater fish less available? Was salted fish more common? Did the nobility, which apparently in England put a high prestige value on rare fish, find ways to work around the transportation problems?

My guess is that, at first, humans just had sex when they felt like it and sometime the woman got pregnant but when is it that they realized these two things are linked.

I remember reading a quote by Nikolai Yezhov (head of NKVD) in which he said:

"Better that ten innocent people should suffer than one spy get away. When you chop wood, chips fly"

Which raised the question to me - did they even catch any spies?