Sorry for the title gore. I suppose if my question doesn't make sense to you, please answer me this instead: When did modern American English develop, and what are the similarities and differences between it and old English?

Did Marines have access to Easy 8 Shermans? And if not would that have been due to a lack of funding or a lack of need for the heavier guns? Did the Marines have any of their own Sherman variants or were Shermans uniform across services? Are there any resources for the specifications of Marine tanks from WWII and their markings?

And lastly, are there resources for armored tactics in WWII that go beyond the spearheads of Guderian and Rommel and focus more on the actual platoon-level tactics of armored warfare in that period - dealing with things like movement over land, Sherman tactics for fighting enemy tanks, combined arms operations from a tank commander's perspective and how infantry and armor most effectively operated together?

This is something I kept thinking about listening to the History of Rome and History of Byzantium podcasts. First the Huns, then the Avars and then the Bulgars... They all seem to receive literally tonnes of gold in tribute (or "truce deals"), but I can't really imagine them doing anything with all that gold besides hoarding it.

Yeah, I suppose trade is a possibility, but who can steppe hoards trade with besides the settled nations they just sacked? Did they melt the gold down and make stuff from it? Or did they use it for something else, like paying for construction projects or mercenaries?

College student here. I am trying to write a historiography on the Commercial Revolution and thought Reddit would be a good place to start.

For example, would American soldiers ever smoke hash in North Africa?

Gunpowder was invented in China in Tang dynasty, and it wasn't until a few centuries later that it found its way to Europe. Why was it that East Asian Nations, that is, China, Japan, Korea, and the Jurchen tribes up north, end up having firearms inferior to that of the West?

I often hear stories talking about how 8% of men in Asia are descendants of Genghis Khan based on modern genetic evidence and I was wondering if the historical record backs up or refutes this claim. What was Genghis family life and offspring producing life like according to historical sources?

According to WP, the Chinese belief in a flat, square earth surrounded by round heavens was "an assumption virtually unquestioned until the introduction of European astronomy in the 17th century"? Is there a record of anyone in China questioning this before the 17th century? How likely is it that no one in China suspected a round earth until the 17th century?

It's pretty common to see a King or second to the throne inspiring his troops from the front lines, before leading the soldiers into battle from the head of the pack. Was this common? If not, did it ever happen? How frequently would Kings actually join the fray?

Preferably not just in the United States.

Were older societies concerned enough with drug use to make it a governmental issue?

Radar has obvious commercial applications, I know -- modern aviation surely wouldn't be possible without it. Still, there must have been serious qualms at the time.

And as for the other secrets, codebreaking in particular, it seems like the militaries would have wanted to keep those secret in case they needed to use them again. What happened?

A argument I once from a book , was that small scale 5 or less slaves that worked on family farms were treated better. One is thist true and do we have any accounts from slaves that were not from paltanations.Also what percetange of slaves were in plantations

i once heard that the tone/cadence/style that we hear in older movies (40s and 50s roughly) was actually learned by actors and not actually reflective of how Americans spoke at the time. I think it had a particular name as well. Is that true? And if so, what was the cause of its implementation? Did actors put it on their resume as a skill or was it assumed at a certain of acting? When did it stop being the popular style?

When the first immigrants came from England to America, they had accents right? When exactly and why did they stop?