There was the French and Polish underground resistance movements that continued for years after the original countries were vanquished; how come there didn't seem to be any Nazi resistance movements against the Allied occupiers?

When (and where) did people start using the week system like we have it today, and did people always have the weekends off? Its a question that has been on my mind for a really long time and google hasn't given me an answer.

I have a few, hope you don't mind.

1. Is Prussia a current state of Germany, like Maryland or Pennsylvania in the US?

2. What was the transition from Prussia to Germany? When did this happen?

3. If Prussia is just a state of Germany, is it the most powerful, considering its location and cities? (Kind of like how New York would be considered more powerful than, say, Delaware.)

Sorry if the language confuses you. I don't really know how to ask these questions.

I was recently in an interesting discussion over whether the church should accept homosexuals into their congregation and the Bible was quoted many times. So the question came to my mind of whether the Bible even speaks to the topic of homosexuality and whether or not it even existed at the time of the Bible's writing.

I've done a tiny bit of reading on the fall of Mussolini, but I can't quite wrap my head around the details of exactly what happened during his meeting with The Grand Council of Fascism. I know that this council (which Mussolini viewed as advisers more than anything else) voted to remove him from power.

That said, I don't really understand how the coup happened. Did the Council always have the power to depose him? Or were they just admitting that they had no confidence in Benito's leadership? Finally, weren't the council afraid of Mussolini? Didn't Il Duce have the power to get rid of the members that opposed him?

In short, can anyone give me some background information on the events of "25 Luglio" and the Grand Council of Fascism?

Sorry if this has been asked but I haven't seen the question asked here before that I know of.

If so, why? Is it so the Nazi soliders were sent into battle by inexperienced leaders? And did this have any affect on the war?

It seems to me that there were a great deal of conflicts involving major world powers fighting in intercontinental theaters so why is WW1 considered the first? Shouldn't that title go to, say, the Seven Years war, the French Revolutionary wars or War of Austrian Succession?

I was at a anthropology workshop today and the facilitator brought up that Jesus was a title passed down to each leader of a Jewish revolt against the Romans. I had never heard this before and it sounds fishy to me. Does it hold any water? He also mentioned that Islam was created as a response to Roman (Byzantine?) Christian invasion. This sounds even crazier. Does it have any merit?

I have often wondered this, Same thing with town names and street names.