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Why was an area in the Canadian Maritimes called "Nova Scotia" (in Latin) and not "New Scotland" (in English) by the 17th-century Scotsman Sir William Alexander as he was attempting colonies in that area? Because Latin sounded more prestigious than English at the time?

Stories of a great flood exist across many different cultures throughout the world. Is there a progenitor deluge story from which all others are derived. Why did this theme spread so universally throughout the world?

Specifically, were Nisei allowed to join the military with the first draft in 1940? I'm not clear on what that initial draft actually accomplished, or if the U.S. had much of a standing military between World Wars, or if tensions between Japan and the U.S. were already high enough that Japanese Americans felt it at home. Further, if a Japanese American wanted to join up and was allowed to, would he then be removed when internment started?

Everyone always asks why the United States have gotten involved with Israel, but regardless of those reasons, what actual benefits has the United States received?

I'm hoping I'm in the right place for this.

I'm in a Historiography class this semester to prep me for my Senior thesis as an undergrad. We needed to choose a topic and the historiography behind said topic and I chose the Causes of World War II. I'm pretty well acquainted to JStor as that's what I've been primarily using over the years but I've seem to have hit a bit of a road block. Could anyone point me in the right direction? Thank you!

Hi, currently reading about military intelligence history and i'm going through operation stella polaris which was an elaborate project to evacuate the whole of finnish military intelligence personnel to sweden when it became apparent that soviets wouldn't care to do fair court martials after the war.

One paragraph really caught my eye and i'm looking for more information. All i can see online is mere gossip or in swedish.

22.2.1944 5 bombers from a large soviet bomber squadron destined for turku - finland deviated from their bomber group and changed course to stockholm. Their course change was immediately picked by radio intelligence service several hours before the main bomber group was even close to turku.

Those 5 bombers flew to stocholm, dropped their bombs simultaneously to 5 targets (one being a barracks) and very soon soviets declared the bombings publicly as an navigation error.

However finnish military ingelligence later raported that such elaborately controlled "error" was impossible in clear sky daytime raid.

According to the publication, all this was escalated after sweden imprisoned Vasili Sidorenko as a spy in 1942 - which very soon resulted in Soviet Union banishing swedish ambassador and military attache.

Apparently Vasili Sidorenkos incarceration resulted in very strong public outcry from Soviet Union and Molotov himself. Soviet union also made a threat to bomb stockholm (this is what i'm interested about).

Sidorenko was freed 2 days after the bombing.

Funny thing is, finnish intelligence was aware of the planes heading and apparently relayed that information to swedish FRA, yet no AAA guns ever fired at these planes.

So much of Greek mythology just seems...well, weird to me. I was curious if each of their stories has a "moral" to it like in more modern religions, or whether the idea of the story of Icarus being a cautionary tale was something those that came after saw in it.

Thanks!

Pretty much every civilization were in war against another one of the same continent at least one time, why didnt it happen in the SA?

I was watching vice documentary about mormons in Mexico near the USA border, I in few scenes they were drinking shots in a bar. As I understand it is strictly forbidden for mormons to enjoy alcohol, but they did not mind it. Can anybody here give me a context on that?

I'm a trustee of an education charity that goes back 100 years, and we're currently researching raising some cash to digitise some of the old and unique material in our archives. Obviously we're looking at the grants/etc route, but I was wondering if any of you guys have tried/had any success with crowdfunding? If so, any tips?

Cheers!

I have been unable (surprisingly) to find a number of concrete answers on the following questions about the gargoyles, so some answers would be highly appreciated!

1. When were the gargoyles added to the Cathedral, or where they there since its construction?
2. What stone are the gargoyles made out of?
3. Who was the architect(s) who designed the gargoyles?
4. Are they still used as drainpipes today?
5. Did they have any religious, symbolic or other significance beyond decoration and drainage?

Thanks very much in advance :)

EDIT: 6. How many gargoyles are on Notre-Dame de Paris?

From my understanding, pre-Christian Roman Emperors were seen by the people as the gods themselves. After Christianity was instated as a state religion, of course this changed.

I was under the impression that the Christian Roman Emperors were now seen as God's regent on earth. What, then, makes this different from the medieval Europe divine rights of the king theory? Didn't both have divine legitimacy? Didn't both subject not to the will of people, but to the will of God?

In this, I'm not referring to 'retro remakes', like the C64 DTV which was a licensed machine in the late 2000s, but the knockoff/unlicensed clones that were endemic with 'price leader' computer companies in the 1980s and early 1990s. What kept the Commodore 64 from being undercut like all the rest?