We studied Blum in my history class, and I'm just curious.

The Imperial Crown of Russia looks like a gigantic turban. Could it be that it has a non-European origin?

Cause I always wondered why the americans didn't give europeans horrible diseases, aside of syphilis.

Was Christianity legal? Did the people of those countries believed in a god? How the transition between Communism and democracy altered and interfered with the religion ? Also what was the use of old churches in Soviet era?

It's my understand that there is evidence, and that it is generally accepted, that a man named Jesus lived and was executed by the Romans? I am interested to hear if there is any documentation about his parenrs. Do we know their names were Joseph and Mary, and were her claims of virgin conception know at the time or was that detail added later?

I read an article where Netanyahu made this point and I was wondering if there was a legitimate reason for this?

Was it just a thing assumed in theological writing by monks who really probably had little experience with women and assumed it was so because women were as Eve therefore temptresses, and man was considered akin to reason as women were akin to emotions and animality, and because of similar opinions rooted in ancient Greek, Roman and patristic authority? (But still, how did those opinion come to be?) Did common people in contact with women really think this was the case? Did women? If yes, how?? I mean, is the current popular opinion that men are the ones who care and think about sex more than women just as misguided? I just don't understand; it seems such an obvious thing to me - obviously men are, generally, the hornier ones, no? How could something so obvious to me, so obviously stemming from unchanging nature and therefore arguably always being-so be perceived as something to be exactly the opposite case by medieval people? Thanks for any clearuppance :)

How long had German jews integrated into German culture and society? At what point did Ashkenazi Jews end up in German territory? Was it viewed as absurd by much of the public that the jews were being persecuted?

I was thinking about the 1980 Moscow Olympics today and I was wondering how other countries/athletes reacted to a major nation not participating in it because of the Cold War. Were there any smaller nations whose athletes won medals because they had a better chance?

In chapter two, Gibbon mentions that Claudius exercised a census of Roman citizens and extrapolates from there.

Were there any plans by the British Armed Forces to begin rearmament as soon as Germany re-militarized the Rhineland? Was Britain financially capable of starting to rearm at that time? What was the state of the navy, army and air force?

Recently, one of my friends raised an argument claiming that the life of an average farmer in Medieval China was far greater than those in Medieval Europe, primarily because those in China were less threatened by bandits, raiders, ect.

Is there any information that can back up this claim? In particular; was the quality of life for a Chinese peasant (say, from the 1000's to 1300's) greater than that of a European in the same time period?

Hey all, me and my buddy where having a discussion, and he says that Nazi's and Japan never had any contact. Could you please provide me with source material proving Japan and Germany had an alliance and were in contact with each other.

I know it is a weird question. But I love hearing about one of our (I'm American) earliest warships. But I am finding surprisingly little information about the ship online. I may be looking in the wrong places.

Anyway, I pretty much know about the rest of the ship. But when looking at the schematics, I am noticing there appear to be two bedrooms in the Captain's quarters. Since the officers themselves have a separate are for quarters, who uses the second bedroom? And which one is designated the Captain's?

On a slightly related note, do the walls to the Captain's quarters get taken down during battle like the British ship in Master and Commander? (I like that movie even though we were enemies with England at the time.)