I'm fascinated by the inter-generational warfare between the mythical deities but I'm looking for more information about the struggle.

Why did they fight?

What are some interpretations of the myth's importance/symbolism?

When did Russia begin helping North Vietnam during the Vietnam War? And what kind of assistance did they provide?

I was on the shitter and started to wonder how the heck people cleaned themselves before paper was common place and soft enough to use on your bum. Please enlighten me with your vast knowledge of ancient bowel movement protocol.

The Napoleonic Wars era is one of my favorite historical periods, but I have a little knowledge of the Ottoman Empire during this time. What was their role in this turbulent era?

A lot of schools don't give students "The Odyssey" and other ancient epics to read until they're near high school level (at least the unaltered translated versions). This assumes that the texts are at least somewhat difficult to read, but were they difficult to understand for literate Greeks at the time of release? Any sources to your information would be much appreciated.

Young boys in the Civil War era would write "18" on the soles of their shoes to verify their age so they could enlist. Cannot remember where I heard this or the details. I saw an old photo of a boy stretched out on the ground showing the number on the soles of his shoes. More info?

We seemed to have our best years in isolation and to be honest we've been on a decline since

Hi!

I've been pondering a mighty while the differences in our culture across the ages when it comes to how we perceive gender and things in that corner. I don't have any good substantial information, since I'm not a historian and the Internet is not a particularly good place to look for less researched and uncommon subjects like this. Most of today's works in the humanities concerning gender seems to focus very much on contemporary society. My interest in older gender culture stems from Elizabethan poetry, that I'm very familiar with since I regularily sing music by John Dowland. While poetry in itself has often been a very masculine craft, interestingly enough much of Elizabethean poetry portrays things like crying, men being defeated by women (their love interest) and shyness as core characteristics of being male. This got me to thinking, and if I may, I have a throng of questions I hope you would like to join me in discussing.

For example, one claim I've heard repeated is that European clothing in the early and high middle ages were more unisex than what we modern people are used to. How true is this statement, how did people view their garments (aside from practical things) during this time? What freedom of clothing did women have?

Concerning effeminacy, the information I find is mostly about ancient Greek and Rome. However interesting that may be and is, how did the Roman image of masculinity carry on over the transition into smaller states and the split between the east and west? Did the Byzantine Empire keep a similar culture around masculinity as Rome, for example? Going further away from the central European history, how at the same times were for example Arab views on masculinity/effeminacy compared to the European culture?

Androgyny was a strong trend in the 1920's, and even though maybe not all social circles readily adopted an androgynous life style, general fashion saw such things as more masculine women's haircuts. My grand parents generation, however, being born in the mid 1920's, have a different view on gender roles. Right now I'm purely speaking anectodally, but it seems to me that their generation was stooped more into the Hollywood view of gender, and glamorous movie stars were the women's role models. Generally known, the 18th century culture was more ... lax on sexuality and gender roles. I'm curious, in between these periods of androgyny (and similar things), were there a kind of reaction against this? Were there any notable androgynous cultures during the 19th century?

This is a very broad question (and broad subject), but I hope you find it interesting and that you may have some answers or ideas were to find more information :) .

Also what happened to Soviet soldiers that willingly deserted and joined the German side? Were they just placed with other Soviet POWs and shot or transported to open air camps to die of cold, starvation, and illness? Or sent to work as forced laborers?

He and his immediate family were dead but he was related even if somewhat distantly to what seems like a lot of Europe did any other countries think it was up for grabs?

I mean is it because we evolute on some specific rate or genius is just born genius irrespective of the time?

Why the need to know/explore Science suddenly grew? Weren't we curious before?

If so what caused this? Was it a brain drain from the USSR, US immigration or some other factor? Did the US ever look to spur its own technological advancements by spying on the Soviets?

If not, did they offer?

Did any Norse traders take up Muslim beliefs?

I am just wondering if there are places where we can find the real blueprints of old war machines such as Sherman Tank, Tiger Tank, Mitsubishi Zero and Spitfire?

I dont mean just the different projections of the tank. Looking for more of it with numbers.

I'm sure that 200 years ago, it was much more difficult to gather all of the counts from everyone. Was voting fraud more prevalent in the past? What about the wider governing positions? It would be difficult to know who all is running for Senator when they live hours away from you and you may not even know who you have for option until you get to the ballot.

All the sources of Viking raids I have seen come from male members of the clergy. The Sagas, as far as I can tell, don't mention nuns being carted off as slaves/brides.