I suppose there would be a slow trickle of Belgian refugees, some Belgians who were overseas during the German invasion and some foreign volunteers fighting in it's ranks. Still this doesn't seem enough to fight a bloody four year long war with almost the entire country occupied right?

As a follow up question, how were the Belgians equipped? Did the French deliver arms?

To clarify, I basically don't know anything about Israels history, the conflict with Palestine and the religios background.
From easy to understand books to online sources. What can I read/ watch to not look like an idiot ?
Edit: Also, history about Iran and the surrounding contries are appreciated.

My girlfriend and I had a discussion about domesticated animals, food and clothing in Japan yesterday.

First we talked some about food, and realised that we have never heard about a Japanese dish of lamb. So, presumably, they don't have sheep. Or at least didn't in the old days. We know that beef, pork and chicken are common foods in Japan today, have these animals always been around?

And if they don't have any sheep, what materials have they used to make clothes? Maybe they got by simply with cotton?

I've read a bit about how chapter/verse are/were decided in the Bible, different proposed versions, etc., but I can't seem to find out when/why this trend of two columns on a page started.

Was the goal simply to make the text more easily readable and navigable? Or is there some significance? And do we have any idea when this may have started?

A friend claimed that during the invasion of Russia, Napolean shod his horses backwards to confuse the enemy. The idea was that the backwards shoeing would leave tracks leading out of Russia instead of inward. Unless Napolean did something to hide the infantries tracks, I think this is totally made up.

Am I wrong? Did Napoleon, or any army for this matter, disguise their movements in this manner? Is there any evidence of this occurring?

Edit: To clarify this question, if the Napoleon did indeed shoe his horses backwards, would there be evidence of this order? Presumably an order to shoe all horses backward in the army would leave evidence. Thus if we find no evidence of the order, can we assume that is was never issued and this is a popular legend?

Also how similar was Soviet tank doctor ones similar to Blitzkrieg?

EDIT: During the cold war!

Is the "Space Race" and official term or more of a colloquial version of the period of history? If it is not, what is the officially accepted term?

I studied In Catiliniam when I was 17, and I wondered how big an event the Catilinian conspiracy was. Has its importance been over exaggerated because Cicero wrote about, and we have the surviving text?

I'm working on a steampunk novel, and I'm trying to do a little research.

Can anyone accurately describe clothes in the Victorian Era and how they were worn for both genders? Any variation due to class or geographic regions would be welcomed as well XD Thanks :)

In the modern world, even Antarctica has land claims on it. Some have multiple countries claiming ownership. The whole planet is pretty much covered. Obviously this didn't happen over night, since it's not like these nations have existed forever.

What is the most recent point that there was a decent, substantial piece of continental land (ie something worth living in, or had some kind of value, not some inhospitable Arctic island) that wasn't claimed as part of a nation/kingdom? (Assume tribal indigineous people "claimed" the areas they lived in even if they didn't found cities).

Basically, when was the point when the entirety of the continents had been incorporated/claimed by somebody, and what was the last place?

It is said (citation needed) that most if not all Europeans are descendents from Charlemagne in some way. How true is that? Is it even plausable statistically and mathematically? How many generations do we have to go back to find the ancestor that makes all of us (define?) remote cousins?

I guess to clarify, what did he do that was so different that caused him to be highly regarded. He had a massive nation of people that had been at war for a long time and was battle hardened. Those seem like things that could make the competent seem brilliant, no?