Example as in too many gold coins rendering them useless in a certain nation.

Why was Omaha beach so dangerous for invading soldiers, especially in relation to the other beaches?

Why was Caen so difficult to reach and take?

What enabled the Allies to finally advance with speed in France? Was it simply getting out of the bocage?

How did contracts or government work before there were picture IDs? Did people just have to trust people were telling the truth about their identity?

It would seem that every time I look up a philosophical concept, I am usually redirected to a great classical Greek philosopher. Why is that that there was such a boom of philosophical thought during the height of the Greek empire? Did no one before that time sit down and think about/study philosophical concepts?

Or is it simply that others didn't write down what they were thinking?

Seems like they would have been just as useful. I know some other nationalities were used in a sample scale, but nothing approaching the pacific campaign.

My curiosity was peaked today whenwatching a British TV show the narrator referred to the linden tree as lime and this made me wonder how lime came to be the name of a chemical, a stone (I do know the relation between these two from chemistry), two unrelated kinds of trees, and a fruit. From what I've seen the word has been in use for a long time, and I was hoping someone could tell me of it is a coincidence or something else? Was there some ancient or medieval concept to of "lime" all of these things applied to?

I'm not trying to make some sort of "Global warming is good" type arguments. I think pollution, including CO2 is harmful to the environment.

I can understand why a US city was selected. Why not NYC (where the UN HQ is now)

Just curious! Thanks

I've been reading John Toland's "The Last 100 Days" and others of the same subject lately, and in many passages in the books, they mention the extreme brutality that was shown for women in general by rear area troops in the Soviet military throughout the territory they liberated and how the Germans basically brought this on themselves. I do understand the that the Wehrmacht and SS commited unspeakable crimes in the Soviet Union, but how bad really was it when the nazi war machine moved in Russia between 1941 and 1944?

As opposed to something like the Pyramids, where we discovered a lot of these things that had been preserved for other reasons, I'm asking about deliberate attempts by a society to leave something behind so as to be understood by future cultures/civilizations (or in the future of their own culture).

Doesn't need to be color based racism, can be cultural.

In order to maintain cohesion what would ancient china with vast amount of land do to keep people dispersing?

For example today its probably tv news and the news paper (the internet more recently)

but how would you as an emperor of china be able to maintain your citizens where transferring of information was relatively more limited?