I often hear people say that video games are bad for children. They say it causes violence and addiction or other behavioral issues. I would like to know if there have been similar accusations in earlier media?

I know there is always stories centered on Noah's Ark, but I wondered if there were other ships historians were more focused on that has a much higher likelihood of actually being discovered. I believe there was a story around this time last year about Blackbeard's ship, Queen Anne's Revenge being found of the coast of North Carolina, but there must be countless other ships being searched for. I would love to keep track of those searches as they progress.

I was reading about Portuguese starts of exploration, and one of the books mentioned that in Europe there were some myths about equator, Cape Bojador, Africa in general and if you could pass around it.

But the Portuguese were consulting all sorts of scientist, navigators, geographers, including Jew and Arab ones. And, basically, I am wondering what would they say about Africa?

An example: I know Herodotus mentions Phoenicians sailing around Africa and having sun in the north, but he himself doesn't believe it. Would the geographers of the time know about this episode (or Herodotus in general)? How would they feel about it at that moment? I am sure (as always) there would be a divide in opinion, but did they have any more information and evidence to deduce it could be possible to go around Africa?

I always thought they both controlled the means of production. and if so then why are they on opposite sides of the spectrum?

Norm Macdonald's AMA got me wondering. Were there other popular cults, religions, and philosophical movements that shared that belief? What did the Romans and Jews think of that tenet? Was that something early Christians used as a main selling point?

Is it not possible that this has merely been mistranslated and misinterpreted over the years?

So, I was just thinking. (In fact, I was simulating the speed differences between a bolt action 5 round, such as the Kar98K and the Mosin, and the 8 round M1 Garand) The speed of the gun was vastly higher than any other common infantryman weapon. It couldn't even match the No4 Lee Enfield, with it's 10 round clips.

So, how did this change US Infantry tactics? The increased speed would mean that the average 10 man squad could spit out more fire than any other like-sized squad of the time. But, considering they carried roughly the same amount of clips, surely this would have led to supply issues, or the consistent reduction in ammunition stocks?

I'm working on my finals in history and chose the topic in the title.

Now I managed to find more or less reliable sources stating that there was a clear difference between the industrialisation between czech and slovak lands. But everything else I'm finding is always history of CZ&SK vs UDSSR.

Can anyone here point me in the right direction? Or were the internal problems all small enough to be overshadowed by the Soviets?

I'm watching Band of Brothers and it seems like they keep throwing around ranks like sergeant, lieutenant, captain and major. What would each role be in charge of on a day to day basis? How many men? Where would they be on the field?

Was watching Monument men and wondered how much art was destroyed by the Nazis.

I guess I'm specifically interested in the newspapers of the time, and textbooks in the years after.

My basic question is how were the pyramids built? Not in the sense of the logistics of carrying great big stones and whatnot, but rather what kind of society enabled the pharaohs to carry out such labor-intensive projects? Did the people work for incentives or by coercion? How would they have viewed what they were doing? Were they outsiders or fellow citizens? Were they a separate caste of people? What was the hierarchy like? Did people feel like they were working on a spiritual/religious project or was it more mundane?

How was he able to crush all if the other warlords? What were his motivations and what have you.

I was browsing wikipedia and came across the entry about the Munkholm monastery in Trondheim, and that they frequently were so loud the townspeople had to complain. I could not find the original source for this, or really any information about what sort of daily interactions the monks had with the townspeople.

Basically I'm wondering how often the average monk went about town, would he have any sort of relationships with any townspeople, would the monastery be a power centre of any sort (in Trondheim they would be under the bishop of Nidaros if I'm not mistaken). It said the monastery in Trondheim owned land and a mill - would the monks work or oversee any of that on a day-to-day basis?

It doesn't have to be information about Trondheim or Norwegian monks, but I would like to focus on the 15th century as that's a time I find really fascinating for some reason.

I'm really just curious - this isn't an essay question or anything. Thank you in advance for any information.