Hello, I am writing a short story set during WW1. I would like to know which characters, if any, might carry a saber.

Hi AskHistorians! I'm doing a paper on WWI, and I had a few questions about it. I'm doing this on the Battle of Jutland, so if you know anything specific to that, that'd be great, but any time in WWI is fine :) So in WWI, what were the type of ships they used? Was it only the dreadnoughts? And what were they like, do you guys have any cool first hand experiences stories/links or anything? If not, it's totally cool :)

Also, I've been looking for this information for a while, but I can't really find the specific, even while using ProQuest and SIRS and what not, but how were the ships laid out for the UK, there is a lot on the Germans, but not much for the Brits. How were they built, what jobs corresponded to what rooms, where would the ships often get hit?

Thanks so much!!

From my research on this conflict it seems like there were European observers from every major power at the time present during the war. My question is how would the combined arms of both sides in the Civil War at both of their peaks have held up against the armies of France, GB, or Prussia at the time? Obviously power projection was an issue at the time, but controlling for that how would these two armies have held up? Thanks in advance!

It always gets a chuckle out of me to see paintings set in biblical or classical time periods with characters wearing medieval plate armor, medieval clothes, and castles in the background.

Did the painters know this was inaccurate, but either didn't care, or made them to look like current day to resonate more with the people seeing them, or did they really think that people always looked like medieval Europeans?

Specifically, eating breakfast cereal with milk

It would be great to have some sources too!

Charles lent Henry 2000 men, money, etc. I find many books sating how but not why. I'm writing a paper on this and spent a while researching. The source you got the information from would be extremely helpful but is not completely necessary.

If there were, why did they fail? If not, why not? Did any Islamic leaders ever express interest?

I guess the time frame would be from the late 1500s to 18th century. Did they eat more sugar than the modern british diet? Did the prevalence of diabetes and other lifestyle related diseases go up?

The Assyrians conquered Egypt and their lingua franca was Aramaic. The Phoenicians colonized the Maghreb and their language was Punic.

Were those languages, or any other Semitic language, still around in North Africa at the time of Arab conquest?

I'm interested in study of genocide & ethnic cleansing. Norman Naimark (Fires of Hatred) includes the Armenians in his study of ethnic cleansing, and there seems to be a valid point to be made that the intent against the Armenians was removal, not extermination. Is there a good work that lays out the argument for genocide vs. ethnic cleansing? Or is it maybe because the Armenian Genocide was termed and categorized before the term 'ethnic cleansing' came about?

So, I apologize for a badly formatted question. I observed someone use the term "surrender monkey" on Facebook to describe the French and was curious about the origins of the attitudes behind that slur -- especially given the role the French played in the American Revolution.

Is the attitude and animosity solely do recent military history, such as WWII or is it an attitude that is more deeply rooted? Or perhaps completely borrowed from the English?

In Red Cliff 2 there is a naval battle which is started by 10 fire boats charging the enemy fleet. In the movie the crews of these boats valiantly sacrifice themselves in attempts to set fire to the enemy ships. They actually rush the gunpowder magazines holding bombs in order to blow up the enemy ships. They even try to board the enemy ships in 1v1000 fights, and any crew remaining on the fire boats are killed by archers.

Was being on such a boat really a suicide mission? To me it would make more sense to send burning boats without crews. Were suicide missions in general common in the period of the warring states in China?