Just wondering.

Denmark lost Norway after the Napoleonic Wars in 1814, but were there any attempts made to reunite the two countries after 1814? Especially after Norway's independence from Sweden in 1905?

I'll be staying about an hour outside of Paris. He's a History buff, and loves stories about WWII.

Below is a list of assumptions/opinions common in modern Western Protestant Christianity. I put these forward as a former Christian with lots of experience in a variety of Protestant churches.

I would like to know how similar early Christian attitudes may have been, specifically before Constantine's conversion in 313 AD. I suspect Christian worldviews from this period were very different, even when taken from the same scriptures.

Actually if anyone knows how these attitudes compare to Christianity of other periods (e.g., Byzantine or medieval Christianity), I'd love to hear about that too.

• The Jewish sacred writings which currently comprise "the Old Testament" are "the Word of God" and infallible.
• The writings which currently comprise the New Testament are "the Word of God" and infallible.
• Reading and re-reading these scriptures on a frequent (daily) basis is good for your soul.
• Memorizing and meditating on the scriptures is even better.
• Along these same lines, Sunday School and Bible studies are important for the average church-goer to understand the scriptures better.
• It's okay to pray for things, but you shouldn't pray for extravagant things like wealth because that's selfish (churches/denominations obviously differ on this).
• The main point of being a Christian is having your sins redeemed and avoiding eternal condemnation.
• But it doesn't count unless "your heart changes," which will show by your effort to perform the following duties:
• One of the main duties of being a Christian is to evangelize others to Christianity, since all who do not accept Christianity will be eternally condemned.
• As an extension to that, one of the best things you can do is go be a missionary in some part of the world where Christianity is not widespread.
• Another duty is to have "a personal relationship" with Jesus, meaning (I think) that you should constantly be praying, thanking, and thinking about what Jesus would want (as opposed to simply following external rituals).
• A third main duty of being a Christian is to "worship," which usually means attending church and singing music with other Christians.
• Another main duty of being a Christian is to do generally good things and help other people: feed the hungry, help the sick, etc.
• Giving money to the church is also considered to be a very good thing.
• Christianity is the only true religion. (Did any early Christians think God co-existed with Roman gods or any other gods they may have worshiped before conversion?)
• There is usually 1 pastor per church.
• (In most Protestant churches,) women should not be elders or pastors.
• Marriage is a lifetime commitment between one man and one woman. Cheating/adultery and porn are very bad.
• Church is something that happens every Sunday morning.
• Church usually lasts an hour or two and involves singing, reading the scriptures, and listening to a sermon/lecture (and maybe doughnuts and coffee... just sayin...)
• "Communion" or "The Lord's Supper" happens at church every week, every month, or every 3 months.
• "Communion" or "The Lord's Supper" involves a token amount of bread and a token amount of wine or juice which you take with prayer and meditation since it symbolizes Jesus' body after death.
• Easter and Christmas are yearly events which celebrate Jesus' resurrection and birth, respectively.
• Baptism is something that happens once when you become a Christian or when you are an infant, either by full immersion in water or sprinkling. Baptism is performed by a leader in the church.
• Weddings happen in the church because marriage is a Christian institution and you need the pastor to make it official.
• The miracles mentioned in the Bible were true (Jesus walking on water, feeding 5,000 people with one basket of food, etc.), but essentially no one expects such things to happen any more.
• You're supposed to be able to "feel God leading you," or somehow tell what he wants you to do in a given situation... say choosing a career or making a big move. This is why you should always pray about a big decision before making it.

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I was reading some literature published in the mid-19th century about artillery, and it notes the muzzle velocity of various cannons, mortars, and the like. Were these calculated using a stopwatch and human reaction time? Or did they just calculate the physics of it on paper, and assume that was correct?

A little background; I am still in high school and am in US history. Last year I took global history and we did talk about how the USSR came to be and the Cold War. But we did not talk about how after World War 2 they became a dominant superpower. We talked about how the US came to be a superpower. I'm just curious on how after World War 2 they had one of the best economies in the world and 40 years later the same economic system caused them to collapse.

Serious. Its something I've always wondered about, one room houses were common during a large part of history, but what did a couple do when they had a family in a one room house and wanted to have sex?

Is it simply because all those who opposed him are dead? Why is Deng Xiaoping not held in the same regard?

Stuff like "Rosie the Riveter" and WAAC. How significantly did they impact the current and future workplace environments for women?

Sorry if this had been asked before. I'm not in good place to search through multiple posts at the moment.

Discounting cannons, were there any difference in design and handling between things like triremes/quinqueremes and say a venetian war galley? Like say improvements from over a thousand years. Which one would have been better?

Someone on reddit told me off when I said Nazism is a political ideology, not a religion.

He stated:

Only someone who has never studied nazism in any meaningful detail could or would say this. Hit a textbook and don't ask me to be your librarian.

So... to what extent is Nazism a religion?

By serious I mean any actual legislative action or leading politicians discussing it.

It seems like a pretty good system to deter escape, and it can be moved if need be. Why did they go away?

Can anyone recommend a book on how the Nazi bureaucracy functioned? How did the different factions in the Nazi party play against each other, and how did the party interact with the established state institutions? How much effect did Nazi dictates have on local, day to day operations in a small town or city?

On a related note -- if any of you do study bureaucracies and how the state functions, can anyone recommend me some good general books (maybe shading into political science/sociology, not history, but I thought I would ask).

Thank you!

Before the tomato was discovered by Europeans in the New World, what was Italian food like? What were some staple dishes? What were some luxuries? Were there common spices?

If the horses were unarmoured and a musket with a bayonet was a basically a spear how was it possible that cavalry were still effective against infantry when every soldier was in all effectiveness a spearman?