What methods did they use to stay alive, keep their homes from being buried or food destroyed, etc.?

It is common knowledge that a lot of surnames originated from the words related to professions (Baker, Smith, Cooper, etc.)

Surely family names like King, McQueen, Prince, Duke, and the like didn't come about the same way. So how did those royal-sounding surnames get started?

From what I have read, in the late 19th century through to the 1960's the dominant intellectual and ideological trends were towards modernism, nationalism, arabism, and islamic modernism. They were trying to reconcile and combine western rationalism and modern political thought with their cultural and religious heritage. Yet now these groups are routinely sidelined or outright and violently overpowered by radical islamist groups. What happened to change the tide of popular thought?

I'm currently developing a historical reality series called "Taking On History".

The objective is to take historical events that are either largely unknown or only known in a limited "high school text book" context and recreate (or reverse engineer) the event from the perspective of a specific individual from the time period who had a seminal role in the story. For example, one of our episodes involves the run-away slave Henry "Box" Brown who shipped himself in a box from Richmond, VA to Philadelphia, PA. In recreating the story I will be shipped in a replica of the box under similar conditions and using the same modes of transportation.

We're currently working on a story about The Louisiana Purchase and the creative conceit is that we will attempt to sell the whole state of Louisiana (or at least New Orleans) back to the French.

We haven't identified an appropriate historical figure who could be the proxy through which we tell the story. Perhaps it was someone in New Orleans who opposed the sale and tried to stop it since the French citizens in the territory did not want to become a part of the US (and didn't even speak English). Ultimately we're looking for someone with a more active "boots on the ground" involvement than the politicians behind the scenes in either Jefferson's or Napoleon's camp who were mostly talking heads.

Any guidance would be appreciated.

I noticed that those areas are pretty much a huge desert. Wouldnt it have been really difficult for someone in the 1500s to explore those areas by foot or horseback? I mean is there even that kind of geography in the Iberean penninsula where those explorers come from; wouldnt it have been a really alien nvironment they were exploring?

I remember it involved communists and was called something like The "Blank" death

When Rome was Christianized - The popes took on the pagan title Pontifex Maximus. How accurate to say they also Christianized pagan temples, sites, former gods and goddesses replaced by pantheon of saints, Mary as replacement goddess, took on the papal hat from pagan priests etc. Was the Vatican and roman Catholicism really a continuation of the pagan Roman Empire?

If a person was accepted as an immigrant to the US, where would he go? Would he be able to "choose" the city? Was a city assigned?

I know this is what the ancient Sumerians called themselves, I feel that this name is so unusual and that it is also unusual that we seem to know so little about it

Was there any difference between the terms politically or strategically?

Whenever I learn WW2, I would always hear accounts of Allied soldiers. I've thought it would be interesting to hear another veterans's point-of-view since it would better provide the mindset of those fighting under the Axis Power. So why is there only accounts of Allied soldiers shown?

I'm an ordinary guy with an interest in History. I'm quite fed-up with Great-Man History. Economic history and political history I like, but mostly together, mixed with cultural or social history. If I browse my local library (in Sweden) or national internet publishers, mostly what you find is political history and Great-Man History. I was wondering if there is some kind of clever way of finding more "people's history", that is, cultural and social history, on varied topics, in this jungle that often focuses mostly on the big. BTW, I'm not including Marxist history in this question, even though I'd take that as well, if you've some good tips (I find puritan determinism exasperating, however.)

I don't usually hang out here, so I hope my question is not out of place! Thanks in advance!

To clarify, I'm mainly talking about destruction due to allied bombing.

I remember a while back being taught in my APUSH class that the crash was not the only, nor the greatest, contributor to the Great Depression but was more a result of the economics of post-WWI America. Am I remembering incorrectly?

it just struck me that the indians were still very much around during this time period, how were the indians interacting with us during the revolutionary period? were they attacking us? helping us? did our war have a big effect on their lives?