Medieval is a wide term, but let's say XIII century England.

There is a popular depiction of street urchins stealing money - but obviously not all children can be thieves - especially the children of the middle-class inhabitants of the city. Would they play without fear in the streets with their peers, or were the local children restricted, say staying in the backyard, or never going away from someone supervising?

Is there any historical backing/evidence that Emperor Augustus' last words were "Acta est fabula, plaudite."/"The play is over, applaud."?

Pretty simple..

It uses the Latin alphabet, and has a Latin-derived language. Why did the lands now in Romania end up with Constantinople rather than Rome?

I was on /r/badhistory and I saw a post criticizing those who used Dan Carlin as a historical jumping-off point and talking about how his analysis of WWI is wrong. Why is this and why do some people not like him so much?

If I was a civilian back home and had a big interest in the war, what would I be doing to keep tabs? Anything beyond the daily newspapers?

I know that they had access to peppers in the Sichuan province, but other places also had access to peppers. If someone mentions Sichuan food, it's almost assumed that it's spicy.

It seems like these random executions could be carried out by even the lowest ranked soldiers. Did the commanders of these soldiers encourage acts like these or were there limits to when and where prisoners could be shot?

I'm not sure if this is more of a linguistics question, but since I got my degree in history, I wanted to ask my brethren/sistren first.

China has hundreds of dialects, and I know the Communist takeover after 1949 resulted in the development of simplified characters and standard learning of Mandarin Chinese throughout the country, but I've always wondered what the language landscape would have looked like in the warlord era and the 1930s, particularly among the various classes.

I would assume middle and upper classes would be more likely to speak multiple dialects due to increased education and greater travel outside of single provinces or regions. Would upper class or Nationalist leaders been more likely to use Cantonese or Mandarin for official business? What about Communist leaders?

My apologies if my western/American class divisions are not an appropriate way to classify Chinese social classes in this era.

I remember reading that pirates normally sailed smaller ships, so getting into a firefight with a galleon would be unwise. What other methods would these pirates employ to capture large vessels?

A friend asked for a history of the Spanish Civil War, and I don't see one in the book list. What are some good ones?

Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleon I's nephew, was elected President of France in 1848 and eventually crowned as Emperor of the French in 1852.

I'm currently reading Phantom Terror: Political Paranoia and the Creation of the Modern State, from Adam Zamoyski, which recounts (among other things) the state repression and paranoia for preventing a Bonapartist restoration in France and abroad during the early Restoration. It seems odd that the Great Powers would "allow" another Napoleon in the throne of France a barely generation after the Congress of Vienna.