It just seems that most of the troops were given two year recruitment papers (later amended to 18-months) and were these people considered to be useful by the RAF, RN and the British Army? Were they considered to be effective in combat situations?

I heard of Ge'ez alphabet, but what about for like Igbo or Yoruba or Swahili?

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With Finland being on the more Eastern end of Europe and on the Axis side, how did Finland manage to avoid falling into the Soviet Bloc after WWII ended, while countries such as Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia were trapped in the communist sphere? It seems like it would have made sense for Finland to fall into Soviet influence, due to their conflicts with the Soviet Union during the war. I guess I get that many Eastern European states were "liberated" by the USSR, but again, how did Finland (of course, not "liberated" by the Soviets) manage to stay within the western sphere of influence, despite events in WWII, former Russian domination, and geographical location (especially being so close to the Baltic states)?

Regarding anything from every day life, government, ideology, etc.

I have the general impression that two important factors in the onset of the Revolution were a massive crown debt incurred during the American Revolution and other wars along with hyperinflation, particularly in food prices. How was it that the chaos of the Revolution didn't cause it to collapse under the burden of war? Also, what happened to that debt when the regime fell? Did the debt belong to the French Crown or the French government?

I know this sounds vague, but I'm specifically looking for quality rather than topic.

When did it become commonplace?

As a follow-up, would English (language) in his lifetime have included "lack" and "land" or are these words modernizations of an older form of English?

I've been reading the Penguin Classics translation of Sagas of the Icelanders and I've been wondering a couple things about it. Clearly some things are definite fact (e.g. Harald Fairhair was definitely king of Norway during this time) and some things are clearly fantasy (e.g. the idea of shape-shifters and invincible berserkers), but are the stories of day to day life/politics accurate as far as we know? And a side question, is there any proof that the major characters (e.g. Egil Skallagrimsson) actually existed?

Edit: Title should be "generally regarded"

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Is there even a general consensus on what should be done, or is it more of a case by case/funding decision?

I've noticed that it seems that countries outside of the US (at least Western Europe) are more likely to exhume bodies rather than just let them be.

I don't have a large sample size to prove this, but for example I was watching one documentary where researchers in the UK exhumed a mass grave of plague victims from a cemetery near the Tower of London. This was a documented cemetery not a recent discovery. It reminded me of the known/documented mass grave sites in places in the US like Gettysburg, only the people buried there will not be dug up or studied. I imagine this could have something to do with either the age of the bodies- i.e. older grave sites might seem more like an archeological case study rather than a grave site. Or the other conclusion I came to was space- the US has a lot more space to allow for areas of land to be marked as hallowed, and I am assuming a lot fewer sites where people would be buried.

Also do you capitalize the S in south there? Anyways I've always lived in Alabama and I know that if you are working outside here in the summer and you aren't careful you can easily get heatstroke, especially out in the open. What did slaves and slaveowners do to compensate for this?

That is, in the rest of China, there were surely other dialects descending from Old Chinese, but were replaced by Middle Chinese, which gives the other modern Chinese dialects.

But why wasn't Min replaced by Middle Chinese? Were there any unique political or geographic factors that prevented Middle Chinese from replacing Min like it did its other sister languages?

If we have identify a point in time, that is.