I'm specifically referring to the "beak," or spike, of it being embedded in the planking of an enemy vessel. Once storming and capturing a vessel, could it then be removed from the captured vessel and used again in the same battle? How easy was it to remove?

So obviously the term colonial brings up a picture, in Western minds, of Spain in South America, England in North America and the like. How did Ottoman and Russian policies compare?

When I lived in Hawaii I worked with a lot of public records. I saw a few land deeds that were written in native Hawaiian and I was wondering if a random Hawaiian speaker would be able to understand these documents, or if it was written in a more specialized manner like our legal documents are now.

I know most folks in the Western world are enjoying time with family and friends right now, but 100 years ago today millions of young European men weren't. They were in the trenches and on the front lines. On the Western front there was an unofficial truce in many sections. We've often seen the pictures of men playing football and posing for pictures together, but can any of you experts out there give us a better idea of how this all played out? Was it formal in any places? Were there places where fighting continued? Was there any sort of truce on the other fronts?

and how is Poland only 0.07% ethnically German?

How is a soldier treated in Napoleon's army and how is that different from how a soldier is treat in say a Russian or Hapsburg army? Since Napoleon had beaten 5 coalitions up till this point, I am really curious as to what the culture of the different armies was like back then.

Specifically I'm looking for video footage that depicts immigrants to America, industry, railroads, or factories in America, or just general shots of cities and urbanization. Time period would be 1890-1920.

I've been watching the BBC's "The First World War" series from a couple of years back. They talked about how the German's made a single major attempt at breaking the Royal Navy blockade, and despite higher causalities on the British side, the German's were unable to break through. They went on to say that the Imperial Navy never made another attempt at getting though. What factors prevented them from doing so? Was it munitions/fuel/etc. or something in the planning?

I know that it wasn't know worldwide, exactly what was happening as soon as it was happening, and many people didn't even know until further into the war, but what I am specifically asking is if someone could show like a text description of how this information spread throughout the initial start of concentration camps in 1933, until the end.

So for example, i suspect it went something like this...

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1933: Primarily High Ranking Nazi Parti Members and SS know about plan to exterminate gays, jews, atheist, etc in concentration camps.

1935: Larger portions of military are implemented in construction and therefore more people see what is happening.

1939: Average german population is learning about the concentration camps

1940: Knowledge is beginning to escape germany, many countries don't believe what is being said.

1941: Much of the worlds intelligence services know what is going on.

1942: General populations of the world know.

Portuguese, French, Dutch and British colonised parts of India, but Spain, being one of the major colonial powers never did; why, especially when finding a new route to India was the reason Spain funded Columbus's voyages.

I think the work that the mods put in on this subreddit to ensure quality is incredible. It would be interesting to know a rough estimate; or a percentage, of comments that are removed to ensure this amazing quality is ensured.

I have heard Jesus of Nazareth was probably born 3 CE

Is that the most likely and most accurate date we can come up with?