I heard they wore normal clothes, so that they could blend in better, and that the black suit comes from Japanese theatre - it would make a scene depicting an assassination seem more like it really did come out of nowhere.

I could not find this exact question asked or answered. It seems throughout history men and women largely wore clothing on their lower halves that did not separate the legs. At some point men got in on the pants/shorts action. I am wondering why women only started to wear pants (in Western countries) well after men started to. From what I can gather it seems pants became popular for women around the 1930s but I could be wrong there.

Just curious! Thanks for your time.

The recent gif of the weed whacker v scythe got me thinking: where exactly did the common image of a black hooded skeleton holding a scythe originate from? I have images in my head of a modern version: a reaper holding a weed whacker, and I'm in hysterics.

Thanks!

I have seen a lot of pictures and such of German soldiers during world war two using russian PPSh-41 machine guns, particularly during the battle of stalingrad. I was wondering if this came down to whether these guns were better than the german equivalent or were there shortages in supplies to the german front, so that they had to steal and use them? Thank you for any and all information in response.

I mean the simple answer is to break the monopoly that china had. But why? What interest would monks have in it? Or was it a part of a plot from the Church so that the Church could gain more revenue from silk based products and to steam the tide of money going east.

I mean i sounds more like something from a comedy movie. A group of people posing as monks to smuggle worms out of a country. Are we even sure they were real monks?

I am aware that economically, Canadians were not as prepared after WWI as WWII, which contributed to the Great Depression. How was the economic handling of WWII different?

In addition, both wars had issues of conscription that served to divide the nation on lines of ethnicity and region. How were the conscription crises different in each war?

Also feel free to talk about any other ways in which the wars differed in their effects on the nation, these are just two ways I am already vaguely aware of.

By this I mean how did the British French Russion Ottoman etc Governments and civilians react or was it not a big deal internationaly?

I've been looking into my Lapplander heritage and stumbled upon this bit of trivia. What led to these beliefs?

EDIT: Do we know what made Finland so magical?

In the US we haves whites and Native Americans, whereas south of us the many races have integrated. Why is this?

What religion was the prophet Muhammad before he became "The Prophet Muhammad"? Am I correct in assuming he was of the Abrahamic tradition (ether Jewish or Christian) and not of any pagan religion? Thank you.

It's my understanding that after the Western Romans, life in non-Roman Europe generally deteriorated (a process that seemed to have started before 'the fall' even?), knowledge was lost, and the civilizations in the area became less advanced. Hence "the dark ages".

Even if the "dark ages" term has been exaggerated and misused, is it thought to be improper, misleading or inaccurate to consider the idea at all?

Something like 2 million, a large portion of the nations entire population was killed in a geonocide, wasnt the point nationalism? how did it end up murdering millions of those it was meant to save?