It used to be a custom in Europe to sew children into their clothes at the beginning of winter, only for the clothes to be removed in Spring.

1. Why?
2. How long did this go on for?
3. Were there hygiene issues? How were they able to go to the toilet?
4. Surely in winter, there would have been fluctuations in temperature, or a child would be warmer or cooler depending on whether the child was doing any exercise. Was there some kind of allowance for removing or adding one or two layers of clothing?

Horse racing is known for having unusual names given to the horses over the years. Examples from this years Kentucky Derby include "Vicar's in Trouble" and "Intense Holiday." My question is why are horses named like this and when did it become popular to do so? I know very little of horse racing so forgive me if there's an obvious answer I'm not seeing.

If not, who would be most likely to interpret it's figuratively: lay people, the clergy, or scholars?

Hello, I am making a presentation for my history class and this subject is rather complex and with a sea of Internet unreliable information I was wondering if someone could offer some reliable websites just to point me in the right direction.

From what I understand, they collapsed due to economic reasons. According to Wikipedia, the US withdrew around millions of dollars in support, but did that mean that the South Viet gov was ENTIRELY dependent on the aid of another country?

Note: I also read that a spike in oil prices further hastened their decline.

I wish I had a source to give but I can't seem to find any, It was on the History channel a few years ago if that means anything.

I got to realizing today that all (from my memory) representations of men such as George Washington, Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, etc depict them with very concise, neutral, and near grammatically perfect prose. This got me thinking it's sort of a cultural thing, as we intentionally paint such popular men in the greatest light. Other than the superior education undoubtedly given to such important early figures, is there any evidence pointing to U.S founding fathers having vastly different or possibly unflattering voices?

there is a paucity of resources for me to figure this out, but would like to know for a project I'm working on. thanks!

I've read that the Stasi's records consisted of anywhere from 20-30 billion sheets of paper. Their records on some individuals must have been incredibly detailed. Are there any examples of an extremely detailed record of someone?

Names such as Vance, Mckenna, Kirsten, and Jayden?

Like how we view this as a great step and a bold move and heroism. Is Stalingrad viewed the same way?

I'm not asking about the "push" or "pull" factors concerning why Jews would emigrate, but it seems that allowing more Jewish people to emigrate to Isreal would strengthen the young country and that other countries in the Middle East would have wanted to keep Isreal as weak as possible.

I'd like to know what the 'religion' (what we'd call it) was like in carthage. I'd like to know what it was like 'pre' roman contact, or before the Punic wars.

Thanks

I know that the Big Three had agreed to an invasion as late as the Tehran Conference, but as the Soviets began to steamroll across Eastern Europe was there a change in thinking? In mid-1944 would Stalin have preferred that there be no invasion?

Effectively, when did racial slavery, as we knew it, start?

I know that iceboxes were the only real way to keep food cold during the era before refrigerators, but the ice was usually delivered in trucks or at least carriages.

If the Venetians used iceboxes, was ice delivered by boat? Was it possible for them to use saltwater ice?

Specificly, I am looking for detailed information on everything that was going on in every corner of Britain, France, Spain, and Italy during the years from CE 410 to 527. Has anyone here ever found a book, or visited a site, that seemed to have an unusually rich coverage of this period?

In the west we kind of overlook his flaws and just see him as a really cool warlord that conquered nearly 1/3 of the world a thousand years ago. but what about the Chinese? is he such a distant memory that view him with the same sort of "that guy was kind of neat" attitude that we do or do they despise/revere him in some way?