I’ve seen several references to a priceless, one-of-a-kind pair of small grey gloves made from spider silk which were created for Empress Eugenie. However, I cannot find any photos of them, or any indication that they are in a museum. So my best guess is that they must have been lost or destroyed at some point.

Do we know what happened with these unique gloves?

I've heard that medieval European cities were population sinks, but what about Classical cities? It seems that, for wealthy people at least, living in a city was a pretty good way to get by (even if plenty of Romans fled to rural villas whenever they could). But what about poor people (I'm also familiar with the evidence that in at least some areas poor rural people were evidently healthier/more able to feed themselves after the breakdown of Roman government institutions)?

What kind of agricultural, medical and structural (both social and in a material sense) changes occurred in the 1000 years of time between them that could have pushed average health up or down?

I could definitely see Galtieri encouraging mainland Argentines to settle on the islands. Plus making the English speaking population learn Spanish but this is all my speculation. So what plans did they have?

What is the historical classification of these mass graves ? In what context the historians recording these graves ?

Ps: that executive is my boss and it was an internal meeting hence I cannot provide a source.

What effects did this event cause? Could it have caused mesoamerican mythology to have such a focus on the sun?

I have no agenda, I just am trying to objectively learn about his life, and am having trouble finding good sources.

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Buddhism condemns violence of any kind. It brings suffering to us and others.Though other predominant Buddhist countries have armies, the leader of the state isn't a spiritual leader - unlike the (13th) Dalai Lama. So why did the 13th Dalai Lama establish and command the Tibetan army from 1912 to 1950s?

Imagine surviving a 6 year war and the genocide of your community, returning to your old home post war

• only to be killed by the same people who now claim to possess your home...

I really enjoy history that gets muddied by myth. I think that the period of England before and during the time of Alfred the Great is really interesting and I'd like to read a good book about it.

Also any early Irish history is of great interest to me as well.

I heard recently that Argentina was on the short list of nations America was worried would get the bomb. I've never heard of Argentina being considered like that, or even remotely considered a nuclear power. What was their project like and why was America so worried?

Watching Game of Thrones or Lord of the Rings, one would think that medieval combat involved agile knights parrying one another's strikes until someone lands a clean death blow with his sword. I find it hard to believe this happened often: battle fields would be too crowded, unleveled ground would make it difficult, and moving around in armor would quickly cause fatigue. The way the Battle of Agincourt is depicted in The King, with Timothee Chalamet, looks far more realistic to me. (This isn't to say that they accurately depicted the tactics/strategy at Agincourt accurately, just that the style of hand-to-hand fighting looked realistic.) In that film, we see a disorganized fight with men throwing punches at one another, wrestling, rolling on the ground, and suffocating/drowning each other in mud. This seems somewhat more realistic to me than most Hollywood depictions. However, one problem with it is the fact that there would be (seemingly?) no way for the combatants on either side to distinguish friend from foe. So what did most of medieval combat really look like?

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I know some smiths were still around in the early 1900s. Because mechanics weren't really a thing at this time, I recall learning that smiths would manufacture certain automobile parts for repairs too. It seems like a natural transition for smiths to become mechanics, but I've never heard of that. Did they understand their livelihoods were dying? Were any of them able to change with the times?

I'm re-listening to Stephen Fry's Mythos, and I've been thinking about how Greek myths seem to be this huge collection of disparate belief systems, woven together. I've tried to look for some history of the development of Greek myth but it's hard to get beyond retellings of the myths themselves. Is there much information about when certain beliefs emerged, or is it mostly speculative?

For instance, there's two simultaneous goddesses of the moon - Semele (Titan) and Artemis (Olympian). Were they simultaneous? Or were they regional? Or did Artemis supplant Semele? Is there anything to show when the stories of e.g. the birth of Artemis and Apollo or Athena emerged, and do these seem to be much later than than the beginning of them being worshipped? Did their cults grow up after the cults of Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, and the other 'original' Olympians, and is there anything to show how and when a coherent sense of the 12 Olympian gods as a complete pantheon came into play?

I find it so fascinating that e.g. Leto, the Titaness mother of Apollo and Artemis, had temples dedicated to her, as per the myth of Leucippus, even though she wasn't a 'god'. Is this comparable to having a devotion to particular saints in Catholicism/Orthodox Christianity?

I find it tempting to read a history of how beliefs developed in the region into the mythic history - with Gaia, Uranus and the nature spirits being older deities, who were supplanted by worship of the Titans - perhaps originally the gods of a conquering tribe - who in turn lost ground to belief in the Olympians as their adherents gained power in the region. However this seems too neat and obvious! Would love some pointers on where to read more about this.

I was told off hand that although the use of the Atomic Bomb is viewed in hindsight as wrong, so was the placement of supply lines by the Japanese. According to this person, attacking the supply lines would inevitably kill civilians, which is why the proximity of the two in the modern age is considered a crime.

I would also like to know if the same could be said about the firebombing of Tokyo.