In the movie (its about turing decoding the enigma if you didn't watch it), after the Turingmachine worked and they were able to decode the enigma messages, the mathematicians decided not to inform the generals and the King and so on, because they feared that they would spoil it by countering attacks too obvious. So they used statistics in order to inform the generals about some attacks they decoded just enough so that it wasn't too obvious.

I simply cannot believe thats true. I don't think the head of the english army would have been that stupid. They would have concluded that themselves.

I mean sure, it's obviously not an accurate depiction of the Battle of Alesia, but what about the fighting itself?

What do the sources say about Romans and Gauls fighting in the style depicted?

What is the difference between a king and an emperor? Why were there empires in Rome, Japan, and China, but kingdoms in Africa and Europe?

I understand that emperors are somehow higher ranked than kings, but why do we call some rulers kings and some rulers emperors?

I understand that the Mayan classical era was long since over by the time the Aztecs moved into nearby southern Mexico. Nahuatl isn't related to Mayan languages, but the Aztecs practiced human sacrifice and played the ball game, like the Mayans and the Olmecs before them. Why? And what else did they pick up from the Mayans, and how? What is the connection between these people over in the East, whose urban society collapsed 800-1000, and these Nahuatl-speaking neighbours over to the West?

What, if any, progression was there from the initial standard sizing to the S/M/L system used today?

It seems like the names of the months are two places behind their number in the sequence... sorry if this isn't the right sub

EDIT: to make this clearer for people less familiar with Latin roots: septem means seven, octo means eight, novem means nine, and decem means ten.

Poland has a long history of invasions in which, most of the time, the Polish people were murdered, their country divided and distributed among the invading nations. The Germans invaded it, the soviets did, Prussia, Austria, Sweden. Each time killing a lot of civilians and breaking up the nation, keeping parts with themselves. The fact that Polish national anthem is "Poland is not yet lost" indicates it had to live through tough times. What is the reason that Poland got invaded so much? Did it have a lot of useful resources, or did it have a high population of Jews, or maybe it was just in the way of other major civilizations who wanted to fight it out?

I'm wondering what we refer to the 20's in the 22nd century.

Thanks.

I've been trying to google it but I can't seem to find anything. I just want to find how people felt about it. Thanks a lot for your help!

I have a friend from there, and is probably the most open minded I have ever come across. How did the Kurds develop such a pro US attitude amidst all the chaos and the turbulence in the region?

My teacher said that at a lecture earlier last week and I was curious because I had never heard that before..

Are there any accounts of people accidentally slidding their throats? I imagine the straight razor combined with limited access to mirrors was a dangerous combination...

Was the attack on Pearl Harbor the sole reason for the internment camps?

I'm currently reading "The Canadian Corps in World War I" by René Chartrand (Osprey Publishing) to get an overview of the subject for a minor project. It claims "the governmentès policy was to enlist French-Canadians individually and spread them among the various Anglophone CEF battalions, in order to pursue cultural assimilation" and a page later "When conscription was voted in July 1917, French Canada was against it, since apart from those sent to the 22nd CEF Bn the Francophone conscrips would continue to be dispersed between the Anglophone units."

I have, very admittedly, little background in this period or subject, but I had thought the Conscription Crisis was because Francophone Quebec did not share Anglophone Canada's desire to support "mother England" in a European war, but these quotes make it seem like Quebec did support the war, but resisted assimilationist policies. So basically, now I'm confused again.

Spain and France seemed to have a good relationship. Why compromise that?