Did either side see this as a strong possibly of happening at any point? Were the rulers of England steadfast at conquering all of France or would they have been satisfied with a much larger country of England plus half of France?

Sorry if this question has been asked before.

Also, if the Roman army did have units such as this, what sort of training would they have received compared to the normal soldiers?

How effective was the resistance movement in Italy during WWII? Also, after the armistice between Italy and the Allied powers in 1943, how did the resistance movement change, did more civilians join in the fight against occupying Nazi-Germany and Italian-Fascists?

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I've noticed that many recordings from radio announcements and such seemed to have a very distinct vocal style. Is there any political/psychological significance to that?

For example, of the Roman Empire's total life, how many years of peace versus war in some form did it have?

Wikipedia says this about Carl Linnaeus:

In his book Dieta Naturalis, he said, "One should not vent one's wrath on animals, Theology decree that man has a soul and that the animals are mere 'aoutomata mechanica,' but I believe they would be better advised that animals have a soul and that the difference is of nobility."

I assume "Dieta Naturalis" refers to a diet, in the culinary sense? I can't find anything online about this book. What was it about?

In episode 7, "The Backbone of the Night," Sagan describes the development of empiricism and the opposition it faced in society. Sagan also characterizes Plato and Socrates as proponents of elitism, secrecy, and slavery. Pythagoras wanted to keep knowledge and discovery secret from the general population. Sagan's argument is that Greek society ultimately supported Plato and Socrates rather than empiricists because the ideas of Plato justified the Greek slave system. How accurate is this depiction?

So we all know that Operation Paperclip was the American OSS operation that captured and brought to America many of Nazi Germany's top scientists and their work, prominent amongst them being Werner von Braun, who was rehabilitated to such an extent that he's considered an American hero these days. The Soviet Union also had a similar project which provided them with some of the knowledge for their space programme. What I'm curious about was whether the United Kingdom had a project of their own for if they encountered any German scientists or was there no organised effort as the British expected the Americans to share any knowledge they gained, much as they had with the Atomic Bomb project? The British Second Army advanced across much of North-West Germany during the closing stages of the war, capturing Himmler amongst others, so they would have had ample opportunity to do such intelligence gathering.

Not sure if this is the right subreddit for the question, but I'll give it a shot.

I believe that aside from the U.S., India and China are and have historically been the largest food exporters in the world, and more so post Green Revolution.

Now that these countries are replacing agriculture with industrialization, will there be a decline in global food output?

The title says it all but I noticed that Russians in the military cheer a type of ura which I have looked up to mean hooray or a battle-cry.

What are the origins of this, and are they related to the origins of the chant for the U.S Marines? Or is it just some coincidence of modern human language that 'ura' was used?

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Additionally, how was Japan able to dominate China in modern times when Japan is geographically much smaller and less fertile than China?

Basically I'm looking for a brief list of factors that contributed to eventual European dominance of the world.

Or, alternatively, were there any non-European massive colonial powers or large civilizations that rivaled Europe?

How were portraits used in the middle ages? Was it exclusively for ambassadors and other political figures. Or did regular farmers have acces to some kind of image of what their 'leader' looked like?

Also, how much of their infrastructure was built in Soviet days, and how much of it remains today?

The President has/had Camp David, FEMA has Mt. Weathers, etc.

Did the Supreme Court have anything?

After have read from the wikipedia page about the confederacy, I'm curious if someone in this subreddit can anwser the quetion in further details.