I've been thinking about a career in history and I'm going into college this semester on a big bundle of financial aid and I'm just wondering if it's worth committing to going to graduate school this early. Also I know the aid package I have now expires when I graduate.

During construction or before a test was ment to happen?

Just read One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, being a camp guard doesn't exactly sound like a great position. Were they military personnel? Were they also sent there as punishment? Not really sure what other questions to ask but any info is appreciated.

Many of the people appointed seem to only have lasted less than a year or two, especially during and just after the Civil War. Why is that?

I get confused reading about the similarities with Greek gods.

Did the Romans worshipped the same gods the Greeks did but just referred to them in their language, and if so did they believe they lived in Mount Olympus in Greece? Did they steal the Greek gods and made them their own with similar abilities for each of them? Or were they original to the Romans and they just happened to be similar to what the Greeks believed in?

The thing that always gets me when looking at Korean history is how the Joseon lasts like 500 years, a ridiculous amount of time for one dynasty. Obviously it wasn't a static entity over all those years, but how much can we say the very late Joseon court resembled the earlier Joseon courts in structure, style, etc?

I was watching a fairly casual program about the evolution of cannon and artilery. It brifly mentioned that durring this time weapon system based on rockets did exist, but only showed two examples and moved on.

To what extent were these weapons used, and what advantage did they offer over over cannon and artillery?

And if there was a difference of attitudes between the north and the south, how big was the difference? This is something that I was wondering today, and then I remembered that we have this awesome sub. This can be the official attitude, the unofficial attitude, basically anything, I'm completely uninformed on this so all knowledge is helpful.

Having read about the Fall of Singapore to the Japanese after Pearl Harbor, the portrait painted of General Arthur Percival is less than flattering. One version of history writes him as a man who was ill suited to the job to start with and he utterly failed to anticipate and adapt to Japanese tactics. The other version of history defends him as the man who was left out to dry in what may have at best been the fourth most important theatre in terms of British/Commonwealth equipment allocation-he had no tanks, raw troops, and at best a rather outdated air arm in a theatre which had been neglected for years. That version of history suggests the end result should not have been so surprising.

My question is: Which is he? The incompetent theatre commander directly responsible for what Churchill declared to be "the worst disaster and largest capitulation in British history"? Or was he the guy left holding the bag for years of neglect in a low priority theatre? A third option would obviously be something along the lines of 'a man handed a poor situation who made a hash of it'.

I hear (but mostly read) a lot about the sheer bravery and courage emitted by many Confederate brigades such as the famous Texas Brigade, a Confederate brigade known for its tenacity and hard-fighting spirit, the Louisiana Tigers, described as "fearless", the Alabama and Stonewall Brigades, and many of the Confederate troops that took part in actions such as Pickett's charge (Antietam comes to mind). It seems that Confederate troops, while less well equipped, on average seemed to be pretty brave and courageous in most of their engagements.

Assuming this is true, how come? Why were the Confederates so high on morale and spirit in comparison to Union troops? Was their passions to defend the South, the inspirational and motivational abilities of Lee, Jackson, Longstreet, etc, or something else?

Or is this simply a myth born out of the legacy of the singular Texas Brigade and Louisiana Tigers and then extrapolated for all of the Confederacy?

I'm watching the Empress of China right now, and (aside from all the other things going on) my main question is how did they get (and keep) their hair in such big beautiful styles?

Is it extensions? Is it oil?

The Great War series on YouTube claims that Europeans all expected a short war, based on the Austro-Prussian War and Franco-Prussian Wars, when really they should've looked at the American Civil War. Why should they have looked at that war instead?

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Pre-Nazi, just so everyone knows I am not a Hitler fan. My husband found this under some wood siding as some sort of cloth wallpaper... From a old house North Park/OldTown area SD on the hill overlooking the San Diego airport. the It has all these rune-like symbols. Indian maybe? A little wierd as wallpaper no?