Did they buy the official US smoke and mirrors explanation of "storage for aliens" or they figured that it was for testing new aircrafts?

Ebola and smallpox seem to have pretty similar transmission, expressing in aerosols and bodily fluids, direct contact, contaminated objects, but also conventionally limited transmission (distance, infectivity window, etc.) Did corpses remain infective, were there special protocols for handling them?

For bonus points, did smallpox virus persist in semen after recovery?

Back in the very early days of television there was a fourth network, Dumont, competing with CBS, NBC and ABC. What happened to it?

Or, is the conventional wisdom wrong, and "Akira" really wasn't that important in the development or popularization of anime in the West at all? If not, why not?

How was life like for these people around 1250 BC? What happened to them and how did the societies they lived in change?

Edit: "People" as in the Egyptians, Greeks, Myceneans/Minoans, and other major societies that existed in the Mediterranean region back then.

Hi y'all,

So I'm doing a research paper on the Ancient Greek view of death, centered around passages from Homer's Odyssey. I've got a few great sources already (I'll list them below), but I was hoping y'all could point out some other good places to look--My university's library catalog is horrendous and has revealed very few helpful sources. I'm hoping to stick closer to the time period of Homeric thought, but so far I haven't found many sources centering around his time, so my research bleeds up to Plato and Sophocles.

Anything y'all think might be useful would help, thanks!

So far, the sources I have include:

Homer's The Odyssey, translated by Robert Fagles

Sophocles' Antigone, Translated by Robert Fagles

The Greek Myths by Robin Waterfield

Hades: the History, Origins, and Evolution of the Greek God by Jesse Harasta

Plato's The Republic, translated by Allan Bloom

We all know that the Communists won the Russian Civil War, but for what reason? Was Trotsky's military capabilities the reason?

Did the Nazis have any plans for who would be Hitler's successor after he died (by old age or otherwise) and how they would be chosen?

Also did the Warsaw Pact have any plans involving no nukes or chemical weapons?

Did NATO have any offensive plans/ what was the Warsaw Pact plan for defense?

Bernard Cornwell says that British soldiers lived in their regiments during the Napoleonic wars, and it seems brigade and division assignments would change each engagement. The same seems to be true (in fiction) about the US Civil War. However, in WW2 stories the soldiers, at least the army, seem to identify with their divisions, not regiment.

Now days it seems military personnel transfer every few years (that's based on knowing some senior non-coms hanging on for their twenty years (and I spent part of my childhood in West San Antonio, so my impression passes the twenty year rule, though only for the air force)).

So, was the regiment that much more important to the soldier in the nineteenth century, and how and why did it become so unimportant by WW2 and now?

Just curious from the amount of rpg's where characters can go toe to toe with a sword wielder and sometimes parry better despite the shortness of the blade demanding far greater accuracy and whether their was any real world basis for a dagger focused fighting style.

Apparently he was Caesars son to Cleopatra, so why is it that Octavian was Caesars closest male relative if he had a son?

Reading a book that makes the claim that after WWI Europe was dissatisfied with, among other things, capitalism for being dominated by the military states and industrialists.

My question is: If the normal people are dissatisfied with capitalism, why was fascism, which heavily utilizes capitalism to 'serve' the state, seen as attractive? Wouldn't a communist state be more attractive to a continent that was tired of capitalism?

I was reading the wikipedia article for the Siege of Xiangyang during the Mongol conquest of southern China and it made me wonder what other epic sieges might be lurking in world history.