Some rumor I was once I told, wondering if there was any truth to this (assuming about how much I know about WWII I should know better)

From what I understand, stand-up seems to be a fairly modern thing. (humorous monologue that is not considered part of a play; usually personal stories meant to be funny)

This might seem like a really stupid question, but how did the decryption process work? How would the assets know which decryption process to use?

I ask this because I watched a tv show recently, and a french resistance cell received a message via the BBC and used something called 'The Sunday' protocol to decrypt it. I imagine that the protocol is completely made up, but it must have some basis in fact.

Any help would be great!

Thanks,

Nix

Why would anyone want to vote FOR a dictatorship? If you like the ruler you can keep re-electing him. But why vote for the option to vote for someone else if you change your mind?

This is a question I correctly guessed would come up semi-regularly here, so I did a search on this subreddit and read all of the related threads, the ones listed on the FAQ and the Wiki page. That being said, so far every answer has been "historians agree," "primary sources are limited" and some squabbling about the credibility about Tacitus, Pliny and Josephus. So I've been looking for a couple sources to read about this topic, namely:

1. Some authoritative analysis about those three writings I mentioned, because I hear conflicting accounts about whether they're forgeries or whatever from reddit, blogspot and the few other (usually self-appointed) historians who've written about this on the internet.
2. Some information on the historical evidence surrounding the crucifixion, sources esp. appreciated
3. Some information on which historians agree. It seems like confirmation biases abounds on both sides when I try to learn a bit more about this subject, so I'm really keen on finding just a few authors with a deep understanding and objective POV so I can read through some e-books in my downtime.

Super thanks to anyone who can help me out.

Like exact date; 4th of August 3045BC. I'm guessing it's going to be something Egyptian or Chinese.

I've been reading a bit about resistanse in the Second World War, and it seems their motivations were mostly nationalism and (to a lesser extent) anti-fascism, next to a myriad of other (more circumstantial) reasons. However, I haven't really found anything relating to resistance in the First World War.

To expand on this, how would people with poor eyesight know or find out that their sight was worse than the majority of the population? Are there any famous examples of people with poor eyesight?

I realize this question might not be totally kosher since i'm not asking for any information to be spelled out here, merely asking for where to find it myself. But i can think of no better place to ask.

Thanks in advance.

As I understand it, modern London was formed as many smaller entities grew and merged together, including the cities of London and Westminster. Since all the government buildings are located in Westminster, why was the name London given to the whole metropolis?

Here I'm using "Persian" to cover the Parthian and Sassanid empires.

The threat of attack on the eastern part of the empire from Persia seems to have been a major consideration in Roman policy for much of its history, and conversely there were several Roman invasions of Persian territory - apparently Ctesiphon was captured five times by Rome. And yet there was no permanent resolution, and no "Ctesiphon delenda est".

I imagine that Rome was simply out of reach of Persia as it was so far from the borders, but this did not obviously apply to Constantinople, and conversely Ctesiphon could be reached by Roman armies. In some ways it's tempting to compare the situation to the Cold War, with Rome=USA, Constantinople=Western Europe, Russia=Persia, and Vietnam / Korea/ various proxies = Pontus. I'm sure that's wrong in various ways, but I have some understanding of what kept the Cold War mostly cold: what kept the lid on Rome vs Persia and stopped an all out war leaving only one empire or none?

I am trying to figure out how a civilian could sneak aboard a ship and the points of access on the ship that they could climb up or squeeze into and things of that nature. Anything information would help, such as where the person could hide safely.

I am a very amateur writer with an admittedly bad education and I am writing a brief story that takes place in the the West indies, specifically the lesser Antilles. The person who would become the stowaway would be aided by a seaman, who would bring food and drink sometimes.

It's set in the month of January or February on the 3rd day, 1763 -the end of the 7 years war dawning. The ship to be boarded by the aforementioned stowaway would belong to the royal navy, presumably some sort of frigate but I am ashamed to say that I don't even know if the royal navy was in the area at that time... Don't get me wrong, I've done a lot of research but as I couldn't find anything on the internet that stated whether or not naval ships were stationed there.

~Thank you in advance

It seems that this anti-semitism began abruptly with England expelling Jews in 1290 and other countries taking similar steps in the following years. Was it that sudden? If so, why, and if not what preceded it?

It's for a project.

Thanks!

We have a good amount of material fleshing out the Greek myths, which treated various figures as deities.

Today, we look at them as "mythical gods," which is different from "religious gods."

My question is whether there were any large groups of people who actually practiced a religion under Greek Mythology.

I'm curious as to whether they studied them as more than gods, i.e. they didn't just believe that the gods existed, but they piously believed in them and prayed to and under them.

I recently read Jack Weatherford's excellent book Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World. In it, he asserts that the trade network established by the Mongol empire was brought together the technologies of Europe, the Byzantine Empire, and China, which then made possible the invention of the cannon. However, did between those areas preexist the Mongols? Is the Mongol trade network really the primary cause for the cannon's invention?

(If you think you've seen this before, it's because I didn't receive any responses last time so I'm tryin' again!)