How far back could I go before modern English sounded like gibberish if I tried to speak to someone from England?

Particularly at and after the Trojan War.

I had heard in a documentary that during the Battle of the Bulge Patton wanted to smash through the rear of the German bulge thus causing the Germans in the bulge to be completely surrounded. Eisenhower refused and instead opted to push the Germans back over a broad frontal assault allowing thousands to escape back into Germany. It cost time and lives. What was Eisenhower's rationale behind this?

Hello all!

I am currently enrolled in APUSH ( Advance Placement United States History) and for our final project of the school year I need to read a book, listen to a lecture, and watch a video related to my chosen topic in US history.

For this project I want to research the military doctrine (hopefully the right word choice) that the US practiced in World War 2 specifically in the European Theater of war. So if any kind person would be willing to give me some good sources to read, watch, and listen I would be eternally thankful.

Whenever I visit a cemetery I notice that graves are not particularly old - now that must be a legacy of the fact that I live in a young country with only a 230 years of colonized history behind it.

I wonder what cemeteries look like in continents with much longer civilized history. In general does progress mean all cemeteries will eventually be paved-over or ploughed-up?

Or maybe there are some cultures that treat them as sacrosanct, eternally never to be touched?

Of those that have made way to progress ... how many bones are there yet to be discovered?

I read in an excerpt of Paul Veyne's History of Private Life that education in early Roman Empire was not intended to make people ready to enter society (as we understand school today), but to educate them in the field of rhetoric (social prestige) and able in sports. The most educated Roman can still be illiterate and may have his slave to do the writing and reading.

With the influence of Christianity which seems to emphasize the importance of writing and reading, how was schooling and education in Christian Roman Empire? I.e. what was the purpose, what was taught, was literacy now a mark of educated mind like we expect from education today? Etc.

I just wanted to know how tactics progressed, weapon balances changed (APCs per company, MGs per squad, planes per carrier), cooperation with other branches, and general differences between the US military in WW2 and the US military in Vietnam.

Got the idea after asking a veteran about the M-79 grenade launcher, and got a long answer about how much rifle grenades sucked in WW2 and Korea and how the idea of a standalone weapon was better.

Thanks in advance!

Prince Aly Khan, was of half Persian and half Italian descent - marrying Rita Hayworth in 1949.

Inter-racial marriages at the time were generally frowned upon, so how was this marriage viewed by the media/public?