Some additional questions,

• How was is viewed at the time of release?

• How did politicians, activists, commentators, etc view it, or try and use it?

Thank you guys so much for looking at this question, I'm having a hard time finding any info on this classic movie. My usually good google skills are failing me, as all I can find other than wikipedia and IMDb are top ten lists, or articles using "The good, the Bad, and The Ugly" as an expression. Ask Historians is a fantastic resource and I figured you could help more than /r/movies, which didn't help much.

By "interwar" I mean between in period between WWI and WWII

Especially, I am interested in comparison to other northern european countries (Norway, Sweden, Finland) in economic, cultural and social aspects.

Thank you!

This was a claim I remember from my High School Aviation class, and possibly a few other places. The idea is that other pilots might see a propeller-less airplane being flown by a gorilla. They wouldn't tell anybody, because everyone would think they're crazy.

This seems like a myth. Fighter cockpits are cramped places as they are without wearing a gorilla suit, and you'd have to be flying pretty close to see what the pilot looks like.

I'm reading Macbeth right now and it struck me as odd. Was that a popular naming convention back then?

New to this - let me know if there's a better place for prehistory questions!

I am aware of what happened to Germany, their Spring Offensive failed, leaving the allies to either march into Germany or sign an armistice, and the latter occurred in the Treaty of Versailles, which started a slippery slope into the Second World War.

It seems that all the history lessons I have had on the actual war itself and the end of it involves only France, Britain and Germany. I have no idea of any major battles involving Austria-Hungary since the Russians left the war in 1917.

What I certainly don't understand is how they disappeared off the face of the Earth at the end of the war. I know that there were several ethnic minorities around Austria-Hungary at that time, do they have anything to do with it? Or was it just another clause in the Treaty of Versailles?

Im reading a chronicle about the history of the city where i live in (its called the "Dochnahl") that ranges from 58 CE to about 2k. But its mostly consisting of major political events regarding or affecting the region or the city. Does anybody have some more books to recommend that describe everyday live?

It could be a stupid question but arn't they basically the same? Why is there even a distinction? I mean both had the same religion, origin etc.

Hello Historians and History Addicts,

I have just a few questions regarding the legal tender of the 1920s, which I know was a time of hyperinflation and the tossing around of money like it was nothing. But my question more has to do with the money itself.

1st: What would be considered a large sum of money in that time? Like to have in a bank account?

2nd: Can anyone direct me to a site that has pictures of both the front and the back of legal tender notes? I tried searching on Google, but I had a tough time finding what I was looking for.

3rd: Any sort of interesting information you may have on 1920s money that you're just itching to tell me, I'm all ears.

Thank you so much for reading this post and I wish you all well.

Sincerely, Jacob S. Tucker

It seems that early firearms were inaccurate unreliable and slow. How was it that they so quickly replaced the bow? It seems like the would both be used in mass for zone fire, with the bow being able to fire faster.

I understand that early firearms have an armored piercing capability which is a good argument supporting firearms, but then why is it that bows never made a comeback when armies stopped using armor on general infantry, such as in revolutionary times? I feel that an army armed with bows would devastate enemy formations armed with muskets firing at 3 shots per minute.

Edit: grammar

Looking for sources/books on energy history, just read Daniel Yergin's The Prize and I loved it, is there any other reccomendations/must reads when it comes to energy history?

What are some of the earliest accounts of political slander from political rivals or other dissidents in human history? As to what I mean by this, think modern American political ads in ancient form ("Caesar is a tyrant who will burn Rome to the ground for his brash actions in Gaul", etc).

As the war went on, more men were drafted. However, I'd like specific figures if that's possible. Internet research has yet to yield any results, I'm trying to get a scope on how the number of draftees in Vietnam fluctuated as American involvement in the theater increased.

Fort Worden is apparently the only US Army base to ever be named after a Navy officer, one John Lorimer Worden, commander of the Monitor in the US Civil War. The reasons why are possibly lost to history. Any military history buffs out there who might possibly know why?

One supposedly plausible answer is that a president of the day belonged to a secret society (presumably in Washington DC) where they were having a meeting or panel and Worden's name was tossed into the hat as they were discussing historically relevant names to use in naming things. I'm not sure of the name of this society, but the time frame would have been late 1800s, pre-dating Fort Worden itself by an appropriate amount of time.

Warning: This question may actually be unanswerable. It has puzzled professional historians.

Could you only drive in perfect weather conditions at first? As in were cars able to operate in the rain or snow from the very beginning? If not, what innovations helped cars become a weather resistant?

Can anyone recommend some good primary sources that demonstrate use of shield walls in combat? I don't really know when shield wall use was at it's peak, but any sources from around this area will be really helpful. Thanks!

In contemporary English, there are major suffix groups for languages, each tend to predominate a geographic region. the most common is "-an" such as German, Italian, Russian, etc. This is found globally but tend to predominate in Europe and Africa. The "-ish" is also very common, eg. English, Spanish. The "-ese" group tend to be predominant in Asia, eg. Chinese, Japanese. Then there's the "-i" group, eg. Hindi, Bengali. There are more, but you get the picture. This did not even include ones without suffices such as French and Greek.

Along the same note, how did the national or ethnic terms develop? Eg. why are people from Israel called Israelis and not Israelians?

I'm the midst of a history-inspired collaborative fiction (roleplaying) game in which a North Carolina wilderness confrontation results in the death of wealthy aristocrat who was a Confderate colonel just a few years back. It wasn't exactly cold-blooded murder, but neither was it a fair standoff -- he died with a bible in his hand, not a gun. The shooters trek overland and out of state. The victim's relatives witnessed the act and carry the body back into Raleigh, and would tell the story to authorities in the most onerous light.

In the 21st century, DNA would be collected, facial recognition software employed, FBI databases updated, alerts sent out to local PDs, etc.

What would have happened in 1875ish?

I have read that many were hunted down and executed. Did that happen to all Roman Catholics in the UK? Or just the priests/other religious (e.g. nuns, brothers/monks)?

Were there areas where they were tolerated?

In a lot of my history classes Ancient Greece is always referred to as the cradle of western europe, but when we refer to byzantium it is always called eastern europe. Wouldnt Byzantium be considered the cultural successor of Graeco-Roman culture rather than HRE/Germanic tribes or the Gauls?

So to clarifiy my question is why isnt western europe classified as the germanic and gaullic tribes in antiquity and HRE and France in medieval, and eastern europe as Graeco-Roman in antiquity and Byzantium in medieval.

Am I missing something here in the way it was explained to me?