Mosin-Nagant or Ppsh-41? And which weapon was more favored? I know that more Mosin-Nagants were produced, but that is because they started production much earlier than the Ppsh.

Was the Ppsh ever standard issued? Or was the Mosin-Nagant standard issued all throughout the war?

I'm reading these different websites that are saying Constantine joined two different religious figures at the Council of Nicea, Hesus and Krishna; this combination eventually morphed in Jesus Christ. Is there any truth to this?

I'm guessing when most work was done by hand, nails would not have a chance to grow and need to be trimmed...

So when did the practice of nail (fingers and toes I guess) cutting/trimming start, and when did it become commonplace?

More specifically post civil-war in the North

While listening to recent news reports about the challenges of bringing Democracy to North Africa, Iraq, and Afghanistan, I'm curious: how smoothly did the transition go for the average citizen of the new United States of America, when moving away from the rule of the King of England? How much resistance, and pursuits of alternative governmental approaches was there in post Revolutionary War America?

there are numerous accounts of European explorers marrying into high ranking families of the natives - how were they able to do this?

I am curious when the trend to use "Chief" began (such as "Cheif Executive Officer" or "Chief of police"). I know that Native American tribal leaders were often referred to as "chiefs", but I am not sure if that word was borrowed/adapted from their culture or if it existed previously and was merely applied to them when North America was colonized.

I mean why South America and not somewhere else like Japan or the middle east somewhere?

As in, has there ever been an instance of three or more factions fighting each other on multiple fronts without any allies?

Is the term "Axis" a negative propaganda term used by the Western Allies to describe the enemy alliance, or did the "Axis" countries use the same term?

I just recently read a news article that described the newly growing Russian / Chinese alliance as an "axis" and I was wondering if that is simply another way to describe an alliance or if it carries a negative connotation (i.e. does its use hint at a biased portrayal of the alliance)?

In other words, is the term "axis" synonymous with "alliance" or does it imply "enemy alliance"?

I believe that Hitler did know and was directly responsible for all those deaths but I've heard people list off "facts" such as there's no signed documents by Hitler ordering the final solution. There's other "facts" out there but I was wondering if any of them are true and how much did Hitler know about the holocaust?

Prior to the First World War, one of the main concerns of the British and French were the large population that Germany could sustain and the obvious advantages when it came to dominating Europe, right?

Even after the utter destruction of the second World War, and after losing most of it's pre-wars territory, Germany right now is more populous than either the United Kingdom or France.

How long does this go back? The Modern Era? The Middle Ages? And how could a realm so divided in those eras support a larger population than the metropolises of proper nation-states and world empires at that?

Nowadays, its uncommon for someone to represent themselves legally, instead hiring someone dedicated to the job. Whats behind the idea of lawyers as a profession?

If they were fighting a war to demoralize the people, I couldn't think of any way better to do it then to destroy national icons. Also, did they yet to raze the Kremlin at all? Did the Americans try to bomb the inertial palace? if I recall right, all the nations avoided national landmarks (excluding the Siege of Berlin)

I was reading about this in one of my textbooks and I thought it was an interesting topic.

Was the reaction to the news similar to present day? Shock, anger, denial?

Were there different views on rape per tribe?

Did tribes have their own ways of punishment or was it mostly universal?

How was the victim supported?

Thank you :)

PTSD (as it is known for short) is a very common problem among many soldiers returning home from war. But war is no new thing in human history and we have seen much more carnage in a much larger scale in the past. Humans have not changed much over the years so I would imagine PTSD was also very common in the past. When was the first account of PTSD and what did it describe?

The earliest I can find is during WWI with "shell-shock" that soldiers went through. Are there any earlier accounts?