I understand that after losing the 13 colonies/the US, GB didn't want to fight, exhaust resources, generally drudge through another conflict with Australia when they federalized. But it seems like they lost something so important. Was the fear of another war that strong of a deterrent to GB that they didn't even want to fathom the possibility of a conflict with Australia?

One of my professors mentioned a theory that the reason southerners are more polite (saying yes sir, yes ma'am, etc.) is because slave owning societies tended to favor regimented social norms, thus making people more polite. How true is this? And if not, what are the reasons for the perception that Southerns are more polite or have better manners?

On any topic and all topic. Economic. Politic. Social. Warfare. Great-man History. Everyday life of average people. Thebes. Athens. Sparta. Any city state or confederacy (Thessaly? Arcadia? Achaea? Delian? Peloponnesian?). Relation with Persia?

I have

• The Theban Hegemony, 371-362BC by John Buckler
• Military Theory & Practice in the Age of Xenophon by J. K. Anderson.

Watching John Cusack's movie City Hall, and the mayor character played by Al Pacino claims to quote the Athens leader Pericles, "All good things on this Earth flow into the City."

I thought this was a pretty cool quote. But in trying to verify it by googling, the only results I could find were people referencing this movie or Bioshock. Is this something Pericles actually said?

Shouldn't Jews be easily spotted? Forcing them to wear the Stars means it was only way to distinguish them.

Is it true that Nazis thought all Jews were descents from the land of Israel? Or, their common ancestor is David or Moses? European Jews match the description of the master race.

I was researching the plays of Plautus and noticed only 20 out of 130 plays have survived. I was wondering what are the odds of us stumbling upon a copy or sizable fragment of a supposedly lost piece of Roman literature. I imagine an old scroll being found in an ancient library, but the only info I could find was a story about how they found part of a legal code in a medieval book binding

I'm aware of Dragoon, which took place a few months after the Normandy invasion, but why was the invasion of Southern France such a side show compared to the D-Day invasion? What was it about invading from the south that made it unfeasible as a route to the eventual invasion of Germany and winning the war?

My dad is starting to drive me crazy by 'just asking' how I know Hitler committed suicide, and going on to insinuate that he was allowed to escape by the elite bankers who started WWII. Obviously that's pretty absurd, but it got me wondering: is there anything like DNA or other physical evidence, or if eyewitness accounts and circumstantial evidence is the best we've got?

I'd be especially interested in any books or official reports you could point me toward.

Classic me to suck at topic.

TO THE QUESTION: Did the generals/officers place bad shooters in front of the better ones? (I'm still talking about 17th/18th CE warfare! Let's pick an army, the caroleans for example)

How did Medieval sentries in big cities knew when their shift was over and how did they keep rosters? Did they have a fair rotation like person A stood midnight to 6am every day for the last 2 times, let's give him the morning sentry now or they just kind of days screw it John will do night sentry forever