An old woman I know told me that Native Americans that lives around the time the first settlers arrived would sometimes kidnap children and cut off their ears and noses so they would not run away. I did an internet search and read that is what Columbus's men did to Native slaves (The source was a history book written in 1980. How accurate is that? Kind of late after several hundred years went by)

She also said that the unwanted women and men would be staked to the ground to die sunburned and eaten by bugs and this is how the "Lost Colonies" disappeared, or are at least believed to be.

So is all this true? I am highly skeptical of a book published in 1980. Are there records of this? I'd imagine so.

I was listening to a Broadway song (from the 50s), and it was talking about how the lowering of morals. One of the things it mentions is how stockings were considered to be lowering standards. Is that because until then the leg was completely covered by a dress/skirt? Or were bare legs considered more decent?

Thanks

Hello!

I'm writing writing a paper on the view of sex during World War II in Europe. I have plenty of secondary source articles discussing various primary sources, but I can't find any to a source myself. I'm looking for things like leaflets, or flyers, or newspaper advertisements that I can clearly source as being published during World War II. A way to search for such items would be very helpful as well.

Thank you in advance! :)

Did the semi-automatic fire really help or were shots more wasteful than bolt-action rifles used by other nations?

I've always wondered who these guys were. Were they on a level with the Mongols in terms of warfare? Why did they disappear and where did they even come from? I've heard they weren't a homogeneous group such as the Mongols, but rather a collection of tribes. If so, how did they get united? What was their common ground? And how did Atila manage to lead them?

Basically, ELI5: the Huns.

Hi there,

Firstly, please forgive my ignorance if I'm about to sound ridiculously idiotic but I've just read War and Peace and have grown increasingly confused about the various different coalitions formed during (and just before the Napoleonic Wars.

I'm therefore now searching for a book (academic not fiction) which might help to explain these to me in words I can understand! I'm not a total fool but must admit that my knowledge of the history of that period was pretty non-existent before reading W+P but my interest has grown to the point where I now really want to read something more about how the wars progressed, how the various different countries chose which side to be on and also a little more about the reasons that the various 'peace treaties' fell apart leading to each of the Wars of the (1st, 2nd, 3rd etc) coalitions?

I know it's pretty hard, if not impossible to ever find impartial history books (it seems many are only as impartial as the person writing them feels like being) but if anyone has any recommendations, I would truly appreciate it.

Thanks so much.

and who used it last?

TBH I don't know a lot about the history of usury

Specifically, were there any "official" members of the Church (Priests, Bishops, etc...) who carried around bladed weapons, lances, or any other type of weapon?

The UN is often accused of being ineffective and lacking influence in the real world. What has it actually achieved?

If they did exist, what would be the process of sending someone to them?

There are so many different Christian denominations. How did they come to be, and what are their differences?

I know that Hitler used these camps as foundation for his own concentration camps. What kind of brutal techniques were used against the Russians prisoned in those camps by Stalin?