Some historians have pointed out that it was always burning, since the worlds been turning, but I find that to be a cop-out answer.

Is there any real evidence that Captain Carrot is the lost heir to the throne of Ankh-Morpork, or is that more of a populist movement from the growing Dwarf population of the city? I know the current King of Lancre had a sort of "long lost son" succession situation, but Lancre still had a sitting king at that point so I find the whole ordeal much more plausible.

On a related topic, if sufficient evidence surfaced and Captain Carrot ascended to the throne, would that technically make Ankh-Morpork the domain of the Low King, since Carrot is officially a Dwarf? Or is Dwarven law more flexible on that front?

Going through recent events of the past couple years, a number of eldritch threats have threatened the welfare of Equestria, not limited to an attempted coup from a previously unknown blood relative, an unleashed elder god of chaos, a race of shapeshifting insurgents, and a demon from the depths of Tartarus that is capable of consuming the magic of everypony alive. Only the last one was arrested was accounted for by virtue of Tartarus being outside of Equestria's jurisdiction, the first two being allowed to walk among us with minimal supervision and the leader of the Changelings still at large.

I understand that Celestia deals with civil concerns with as light as a spur as she can, and questioning that is outside of the scope of this post. My question for everypony is why Celestia has been insistent of keeping entities of malicious intent, threats to the common pony, and even entire lost cities out of the common knowledge and relegated to apocrypha and oral retellings. Are we not mature enough to deal with our own problems, if not know what is really out there beyond the here and the now?

It's common knowledge that in the 1930's the Nazis tried to recover several religious artifacts but failed due to the efforts of American archaeologists. Had such figures as Major Arnold Toht, Colonel Herman Dietrich, and SS Officer Vogel survived to participate in the war effort, would it have effected the outcome?

The Cardassian Obsidian Order and the Romulan Tal Shiar are well-known, but how much reason is there to believe the UFP maintains a similar intelligence agency?

Snitchnip is an illegal capture of the snitch. During the match a Plumpton Pass was ruled and then the Haitian beater grabbed the snitch from his sleeve. Shouldn't the Plumpton Pass itself be ruled a snitchnip or a catch, since the snitch was contained and controlled by the seeker.

Couldn't the plumpton pass be used to cheat and prolong matches that should have already been decided? Can someone please explain?

This is my first AskHistorians, so I hope I'm doing it right! I am currently an undergraduate studying history, and don't really know where to start on this one, seeing as I do not speak/read Russian. I had come across the mention that after Nikolai Bukharin was executed, his son was taken away from Bukharin's surviving wife. He was subsequently raised without knowledge of his father in a KGB orphanage. This brought a few questions to mind:
How much truth to this is there, and are there any good books discussing the specific case?
I've heard the phrase "children of the enemies of the people"- was this a term used specifically for cases such as this, or was it more of a blanket term?
Finally, like the title asks- how common was the practice of taking children of formerly prominent party members and raising them unawares of their parents' political role?
Thank you in advance for any/all responses, I'll be keeping an eye on this and commenting when I can! :)

Obviously Arceus created us all.

I was reading Prof. Rowling's book on the first and second defeats of Lord Voldemort, and I was wondering if there was any consensus on how important Potter actually was to his defeat. I got the impression that he was groomed for leadership from an early age and that much of the actual work was completed by his associates at Hogwarts and the Ministry of Magic (namely Dumbledore, Shacklebolt, and other members of the Order of the Phoenix) while Potter was left to be a public figure. How much of Voldemort's defeat can be attributed to Potter, and how much should be attribute to the work of his associates? As follow up, was Potter necessary at all? It seems like they could have used any wizard that fit the superstitions of Voldemort and the rest of the wizarding population (i.e. the lesser-known Longbottom).

And was their choice of fishax in anyway related to the local popularity of shrubberies?

I feel like the public's knowledge of the mushroom war is severely lacking.

The title says it all. I know Talos also caused a rewriting of the past when he achieved CHIM, making it so that three souls had always been one. How then are we as historians supposed to be able to say what really happened in the past?

Why is it so hard to find sources about such an important person and such an important war? Every book I read says something different.

For example, one book said Ashley Williams died in the battle of Virmire and another one said it was Kaidan Alenko. I've heard at least three contradictory theories about what happened to the council during the first Reaper attack. And I just this past week I watched an Asari documentary that claimed Shepard was a man and a Salarian documentary that said he (she?) was a woman! Are the other council races' historians really that bad with human biology?

What gives?

I've also wondered why you senior monks all act so reverential towards a simple sweeper. Is it related to that nonsense about "rule one" you keep mentioning?