I understand why AIM was protesting, but why did they choose Alcatraz specifically? Did the island hold some special significance?

Did they support the North? Send troops or aid? Sanction one side or the other?

Since there are many modern conspiracy theories (moon landing, various 9/11 theories etc), are there examples of ancient conspiracy theories? Ancient equivalents of the local powers being secret lizards/giants/werewolves, or interpretations of events (Julius Caesar's death was really carried out by a Carthaginian on a grassy knoll) etc?

Silly or reasonable, I am curious. Modern communication makes them very easy, but perhaps the dissemination of information in the Roman forum (or local newsletter, notices etc) made it possible for people to make wild assumptions?

Yes, I was born and raised in Florida.

I can kind of get boiling water to do the wash, but line drying in below-zero temperatures... how did that work?

Even though they didnt have the largest army. There is strong belief (in australia anyway ) that they were the best allied soldiers of ww1. How accurate is this belief? I know they had one of the highest casualty rates of the war. But you cant use that as a guide to judge the quality of the troops

Not to be rude to Mongols, but before Genghis Khan it seems like they had very little impact on the world, and after him they seemingly returned pretty quickly to having little impact. So what was so special about his era and rule?

Other nations that invaded large regions (e.g. the Romans, the Chinese) have a long history of global influence, yet the Mongols seem to have gone from nothing, to conquering the world, back to nothing again in a very short period of time.

Does anyone know any credible books about Nazi propaganda or what role propaganda played in Nazi Germany through the years of 1933-1945.

Has it always been very poor even compared to its neighbours, or did it simply suffer disproportionately following the collapse of the Soviet Union?

Heyerdahl mentions that when the Europeans arrived in Polynesia, the people had "old pyramids, paved roads and carved stone statues as high as a four-storey house in Europe". Is there any truth to this, or was this an exaggeration of the Polynesian's engineering ability? Everyone knows of the Easter Island heads, but I was under the impression that those were very unique.