Sorry if this is vague and overly general, but I'm open to anything.

Maybe an overview of how our notions of thinking and making have changed in recent history within a discipline. How design thinking or methods have been influenced by various things.

My background is more in architecture. I'm not so much looking for architectural theory or case studies on their own. More just how people actually think, make and develop work over time. Could be buildings, could be sculpture, painting...etc.

I feel like you can kind of pull this kind of information from traditional history books, case studies or theory. But I want something that talks about the design process in a more direct fashion.

It could also be about the development of an individual's creative process, or even within particular movements. Just something that you found meaningful and honest/direct.

The creativity thing is more of a secondary question. Kind of like a history of creativity as a concept. How notions of creativity have changed overtime in various cultures.

This question came up in my Spanish culture and history class on the civil war and Franco's reign, but the lecturer didn't know, so I was interested and thought I'd ask here, see if anyone knew.

So as above, were the gold reserves ever returned to Spain? If so when? And why at that time (we assumed they wouldn't while Franco was still in charge)? And if not why were they allowed to keep it?

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Why not Tokyo? Why two smaller cities, and why those two specific cities?

What were they made of? They must've been rather difficult to make, especially being that most pictures show them to be an extremely high quality. Would they have been relatively tight like spandex, or relatively loose fitting. Are there any examples that have survived to the modern era and can be looked at?

Just read Bart Ehrman's "Misquoting Jesus" and am wondering if anyone has ever published a New Testament translation that tries to be as primitive, textually speaking, as possible?

First off, I've combed through the FAQs to make sure I wasn't reheating a dead horse and the flaired user list to see if there was a more tailored venue to ask these. I think this is the best spot, but if not, let me know and I'll happily remove this.

I'm thinking about building a 1/36 to 1/75 scale ship from scratch. I was hoping to find ship plans online, but thus far have found little and less that's actually helpful. Do any of you know of any sites or books that give accurate and detailed depictions of framing, decking, and rigging? Is that something that was even published knowledge? I am principally looking for Man-of-War plans, but at this point anything would be helpful, and if I change my mind and decide to make "just" a ship, any such plans would obviously be helpful as well.

EDIT: Corrected the scale I'm looking to build. A 1/36 scale would have the smallest cannons I could functionally fire. Because, this wouldn't be reddit if it weren't a little ridiculous.

We know of Hitler's plans for the British and the Soviets, but what did he intend to do with America in the event of a victory. Did they just assume America would peace out after their victory in Europe?

The Japanese had hoped they would not need to fight the US after pearl Harbour, but what did they plan on doing once it became clear they had to fight them?

I should clarify I am not looking for what the most likely outcome of an Axis victory would be, I would like to know what the Axis planned to do.

I have read that Japan was about to surrender before we dropped the H bomb, unconditionally. How true is this?

edit really, not rally. Edit again... mods will you please fix my grammatical errors in my title?

Was the war part of the reason that many European powers began to relinquish their colonial possessions?

Worldwide the world's major religions are mainly monotheistic (Christianity with all its denominations, Islam with all its denominations, Judaism and Zoroastrianism too), atheistic/agnostic (Buddhism) and only Hinduism is polytheistic in most of its denominations. What happened with all the other polytheistic religions that have been relegated to marginal positions or simply ceased to exist in practice?

A common picture of the Middle Ages is a huge family. In Game of Thrones you see some noble houses where women have five children or more. I have heard some comments from people in conversation that the maternal mortality rate, defined as

"The death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and the site of the pregnancy, from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management, but not from accidental or incidental causes." was much higher than it is now to the point that child birth was very dangerous. I heard some numbers thrown around from 10 to 40 percent which seems a little high.

I know this will vary wildly for location and time but how would it compare for a noble family compared to a poor family? How much did the health care matter? Is it realistic to have a family of more than 5 people or did a wife usually expect to die from that?

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I'm doing a course of literature of the first world war, and I wanted to know if anyone had any suggestions of personal accounts of British soldiers who were opposed to the war in some way (e.g applied as conscientious objector, refused to participate in combat, were punished for cowardice). This is quite a specific request, but if possible a first hand account would be best.

Thanks a lot for the help.

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I thought a lot of it was shipped back to Britain but my friend says it was shipped back to Britain ready to sell as "pure white sugar".

In old movies and TV shows, married couples are often depicted sleeping in two separate twin sized beds, usually with a type of end table between them. In reality, was this a regular practice for married couples or is this a media-manufactured depiction that was used to curttail implied sexual activity?

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I know that there were several rounds of simplification during Mao. But were there any attempts to introduce a new script on a widescale for China?

They had been in the war since 1914. Why ignore them?