Hi there,

I'm going to be giving a presentation on the history of the Israel-Palestine conflict for a University course. History has always been a big area of interest for me, though I can't say I know an awful lot about this particular area of history aside from what I've picked up from the news (which is rarely an unbiased source!)

The required length of the presentation is quite short, so I need to essentially summarise. Wikipedia will probably be helpful to a degree for this purpose, but I would appreciate some outside insight, too. Are there any good websites or eBooks worth checking out? Does anyone here have anything useful to share? I'd definitely appreciate it. Google will be my friend, as always, but I know folks around here love to talk about history, as do I, so I figured this should be my first stop!

In a European city or town you have knowledge of with a mixed population did many Gentiles have much (or any) Yiddish? Were there periods where Gentiles had more Yiddish than others? Was any understanding of Yiddish limited to commonalities between German languages and Yiddish. Particularly interested in Budapest and Hungarian cities but interested generally.

I was reading a book on Augstan Rome and it mentioned how scholars suggest that the Aeneid was pro-Augustan propaganda. What is it that makes them believe that?

Much of Europe (to my knowledge) went through a "dark age" after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, where not much history was recorded, and thus our historical knowledge is scarce. Has this occurred in other regions at different times? Are there vast periods of, say, Chinese history we know very little about, in between flourishings of recorded knowledge?

Hi,

I'm sorry if this is not really the type of question you want asked here, feel free to just delete it if necessary.

Onto my question:

I want to find either videos or written content on the history of various areas around the world.

For instance - the history of the Iraq/Afghanistan area. Or Chinese/Asian history. Or even American history.

I realise there will be thousands of things I could read on each of the things I just mentioned but I was wondering if any of you guys knew where I could go that would have information on these that was condense, easy to digest, accurate etc

Sorry if I'm still not making myself very clear/shouldn't post here.

TL;DR Where would you recommend someone who is interested in learning broadly about lots of different areas of history. An amateur's starting point?

Thanks in advance

I'm doing an internal assessment on japanese kamikazes during WWII-- mainly why they were formed and their tactics. Are there any books/articles/primary sources that could give me an in-depth background and good insight about kamikazes?

Was it to open a second front in western Europe to further stretch thin the German military? Or was Italy's mountainous terrain that made a bigger advance unappealing? Or something else entirely?

Muqadimmah, a search for his name on the sub didn't turn up much.

prior exposure: listened to History of philosophy podcast on him.

also interested in recommended translations. Free online preferred though i have access to a library.

I recently listened to a "Request Performance" radio program from 1945 where Orson Welles takes a trip to the moon. A lot of what he describes in the fictional performance is accurate to what we know happens in space travel. I'm wondering if it was just guesswork, or if he was working off what space innovations had already happened by then.

Was it comparable to basic training for soldiers today, or was it something entirely different?

I have been searching for awhile and have not found any satisfactory answer as to the origin of the term white lightning.

What I do know;

• White Lightning is a name for Moonshine.
• Moonshine is type of whiskey, or grain alcohol, typically made from corn mash and then put through a distilling process.
• It is said that the name white lightning is a reference to the clear color of the liquid, and or could be referencing the feeling one gets when drinking the liquid. However nothing I've found definitively proves or backs it up.
• This name seems to become a part of the general language of the united states sometime during or right after the prohibition (1920-1933).

What I don't know and would like to;

• When was the name first used? I realize this is hard to pinpoint because of the secretive nature of alcohol at the time, but I'd like to know at least in what year it entered known usage.

• Where does the name originate from? I'm looking for at least state or region (assuming it did originate in the united states). If it can be more precise like city or town that would be great but I realize that's asking a lot.

• What is the meaning of the name? Is it a reference to the qualities of the liquid, simply a "code name" for talking about it in public, or some moonshiner's brand name?

Wouldn't bow and arrows be more efficient?

Surely this can be guesstimated? According to my powers of google The latest date I have found is 250 AD.

How much longer might they have existed, or is that a quasi-definitive date?