What was the difference in the decision making process when it came to independence that led the 13 colonies to separate and Upper/Lower Canada to remain loyal?

I am doing a history paper on a historian for my HIST 300 class and have found that he did an AMA on Reddit. I would to be able to use some of the stuff he said in my paper, but I am unsure on how I would go about citing that. Any help would be awesome.

I've read somewhere the 300 Spartans actually had left after celebrating Carneia. Just hoping a Redditor could clear this up.

Also I understand Sparta usually had two kings. Where was the other guy?

I don't know if this is the right subreddit to post in, so I apologize if I'm out of place. I'm looking through old pictures from the early 80s, and I've noticed how skinny everyone looked. I was just wondering what constituted an average American diet back then.

Hello,

I was watching an episode of ancient aliens with some friends tonight, and the episode was about humans living among dinosaurs. While none of us actual believe about this but we were wondering if there is any evidence to disprove the carvings that are seen in some of the temples found around the world.

Thank you

Were they the first to develop underwater masonry, or was it an old technology by then?

Since Leif Erikson, and later other Scandinavians, discovered and explored North America c. 1000 years ago, why did exploration not start again until 1492? After the Viking expeditions, why didn't word spread throughout Europe of an unexplored land to the west, causing other European nations to start exploring and colonizing North America?

I came across this passage by Michael Wintle, speaking of "European civilization",

"To talk in terms of quintessential or single European culture, civilization, or identity leads quickly to unsustainable generalization, and to all manner of heady and evidently false claims for one's own conteinent. Nonetheless, if the triumphalism can be left to one side there is a long history of shared influences and experiences, a heritage, which has not touched all parts of Europe or all Europeans equally, and which is therefore hard and perhaps dangerous to define in single sentences or even paragraphs, but which is felt and experienced in varying ways and degrees by those whose home is Europe, and which is recognized - whether approvingly or disapprovingly - by many from the outside."

(emphasis mine)

We are of course familiar with the idea of "Western civilization" as a shared, single universal development across "the Western countries". This is a narrative often discussed again and again: as a feeling of shared history from the Roman Empire, Christianity, Enlightenment, and industrialization.

But where does it come from? When and how did people first invent the idea of a shared "Western civilization"? This is a wild guess - but I'm sure this idea is relatively modern. Does it have anything to do with the European Christendom (or even older)?

If it is so - why and how it persists for ages, constantly produced in popular narrative?

I've read this circulated over the years as fact, and attributed to different things – most commonly that the Nazis compared the Jews to 'dirty rats', and saw Mickey Mouse as holding the mouse up as an ideal.

That seems far-fetched to me, but I'm wondering if there is any truth to the idea that Hitler or other high-ranking Nazis hated Mickey Mouse (or had any feelings about the character at all).

Don't know if I'm at the right place here. But I was reading Barbauld's poem: "Summer Evening's Meditation", and I really liked the line "This dead of midnight is the noon of thought". I interpreted this line as: When people started looking at the stars, they began seeing patterns, looking for cause and effect, and this boosted their intelligence. Is this theory I just made up in any way true to reality?

I've taken my bored time today to listen to a live concert of Ray Charles and it's so beautiful. How were these artists able to created such influential and fantastic pieces of music when one of their senses are disabled? Thanks!

I know that there was some Christian religious literature produced in the late Empire that was written in Syriac and also Coptic, but were there any other works, especially of a non-religious character?

For example, not including Cain killing Abel. If there is a historically documented murder during biblical time periods, that's not an issue.

I've heard of Benjamin O. Davis, but all I know is that he was the first black general. Were there any other non-whites before him?