...what is the broad-stroke time-line for western-ish language evolution?

Hope that question makes sense - the idea does in my mind, but I was trying to keep the subject line reasonable.

Thanks!

I have heard people claim that the United States armed Sadam Hussein. I don't know much about Iraq but I vaguely remember that the Iraqi army used Soviet equipment. Can anybody clarify this?

edit: not sure why I'm getting downvoted for this. It's an honest question that I've been curious about.

There's a lot of media out there about how allied soldiers were treated by axis forces when held prisoner in POW camps. But how about the opposite, how were Axis (German, Italian, Japanese, etc.) troops treated in Allied POW camps during the first and second world wars? And are there any tv shows/movies/books that give an honest interpretation of this?

Female scribes must have existed in the past. There are confirmed cases of things exclusively used by women - glyphs, dialects, etc.

Is it possible to find a gendering in penmanship in ancient, medieval and modern history?

How close were the Confederates to winning the war? Why did we not? I really just want the essentials of why it didnt happen... Please give me any information or criticisms of my post too... its my first!!! But I love reading yalls posts!!!

Went out for drinks tonight and as I was gazing at the advert posted over the urinals I got to wondering this.

For example were adverts placed in the public toilets in Rome? Did they have designated locations (essentially billboards), or wasn't it even regulated at all? I'm just really curious about how advertizing in its current form came to be and how far back it goes.

I'm so sorry if this isn't the right place (I was told to come here after my post was removed from /r/history), but I'm hoping that there is someone who can help. I'm looking for an accurate "bully beef" or "prepared beef" ration tin label that would work for a Commonwealth soldier from the Boer war.

I'm writing a book about my grandpa (who is Chinese) and during a short period in 1944, he says he was a radio operator for the American Flying Tigers...except his job was to fly with cargo planes which usually transported petrol/gas from the Dinjan Airport (an airfield near/around India) and over the Himalaya Hump to Kunming, China. He remembers doing parachute drills before flying, and one time when an engine blew out, he, his Chinese pilot, and an American GI stowaway dumped all their petrol while circling the over the Himalaya mountains to get high enough to pass the Hump (I did read that dumping equipment/cargo was a tactic of the Flying Tigers to lighten an airplane if needed). He was employed by the Americans and paid ~$300 USD/month.

There is not a lot of information about the Flying Tigers that I could find, and usually they only talk about combat/fighter planes with the tiger painting. But my grandpa and aunt insist he was flying with the Flying Tigers during his stint as a radio operator on these planes in 1944. My grandpa is old (96) so I'm not sure if his memory is just shoddy, but there is also probably no other way he knew about the existence of the Flying Tigers other than through RL experience/memories (since he doesn't read American/English history books).

As for the American GI, this man was a stowaway and hid on the plane for a while before revealing himself, because he wanted to use his 2 weeks vacation to have fun in Kunming but didn't have permission from his superior (there was nothing to do in/around the Dinjan airfield area).

So yeah, I'm wondering how credible is it to say my grandpa was a Flying Tiger? I have never heard anything about cargo planes being part of that group, and usually websites/stories only talk about the Americans who were part of the fighter group, and very rarely ever mention the Chinese who were employed as well. I can only read/speak English so I can't look up Chinese history sources to see what information they have either.

Thanks for any insights. Feel free to tell me anything even if it is several months past this post. I am always looking for information :)

I've heard before that some more primitive communities used to shun women during their menstrual cycles, believing they were soiled, dirty, unclean, or even evil during their time of the month. But this couldn't also be the case in Victorian England (as an example). What did the Queen do when she had her period, or the Pilgrims, or the Egyptians? Was it different for each culture, or was it basically just sadly messy? (A rather broad question, but I've been very curious about it)

India was the birthplace for both these religions, and in the beginning buddhism received patronage from rulers and had many followers. How come it slowly declined say around 7th century onwards (except for the monasteries around Bihar under Palas patronage). Why did the Hinduism slowly become more popular?

Thanks!