Was there an actual Assassin order? If so where were they all located? Why and who did they assassinate? Did they have their own ranking system? Who was their Leader?

Did any medieval literature or mythology have vampires vs werewolves or is that just something modern authors and moviemakers have made up? Were there cultures that believed in both?

I imagine that other countries had embassies in Berlin if they were not at war with the country, and especially so Japan. What happened to those personnel when the Soviets attacked the city?

Same goes for Spanish and Portuguese blood.

There has been lots of conflicts due to religion but has there ever been any due to the lack of religion?

What benefit did they see in the bombing of Hawaii?

On Facebook, some conservative friends bashed the president for comparing the crusades carried by the Christians to what ISIS is doing now. I want to know if this comparison is more or less true.

Edit: Did they hold as "much" esteem as Roman generals?

And would it not be correct to refer to Islam as a Semitic religion?

Is there also some interactive way/ a 3d model of the pyramid I can explore?

This stems from a recent argument I came across where someone, clearly pushing a bit of a racist agenda, used the proliferation of inbreeding amongst former slave populations to justify their belief that African-Americans are genetically inferior. I know there was forced breeding amongst select slaves, and other sexual violations like that, but it just doesn't make any sense to me from a slave owners perspective to practice inbreeding amongst their slaves. Even before the discovery of DNA people must have had some understanding of the negative effects of inbreeding both physically and mentally, right? Is there any historical or genealogical evidence that inbreeding was a widespread practice?

What took them so long if presumably they were just like us physically. Couldn't someone had thought about using beasts of burden to do some work, say 100k years ago?

And If so, what was the degree of popular acceptance they achieved ?

I was reading a Noir novel the other day, and the main character interacts on several occasions with "the hotel dick" regarding a case he's working on. How did this work? Did hotels have in-house private investigators? And what was their role? What did the average day look like for these men?

Growing up, we obliviously learned that they were treated horribly in the South. We also learned that the North wasn't that great either. Despite the absence of Jim Crow, there were still many discriminatory policies (redlining, blockbusting, etc.).

That being said, I don't recall learning about how they were treated out west. I've heard anecdotes about black families moving to California and being treated much better, but did this apply to most black people that lived there?

Been looking into a big series or book that may cover this, maps would be great! I have a few books that cover these topics but usually skim over great lengths of time. Especially interested in Mesopotamia and the civilizations that existed leading up to the area as well as those formed after. Sorry if this is an extremely general question.