Some time ago in college we looked at the evidence for functionalism and intentionalism and there was hardly any evidence showing that Hitler planed it and decided on what was happening with the extermination of Jews. Is it just the fault of my lecturer or is there really only little evidence?

For example, in the modern day there is a lot of controversy over how JFK was assassinated and whether there may have been a cover-up. Even if evidence of a cover-up is slim, there are still a lot of people who believe that there was more foul play involved.

Were there any large conspiracy theories like that, which were believed by a large segment of the Roman population despite lack of evidence to support such theories?

Not sure if this is the right sub to ask this, but I just got to thinking of this. If early humans were adapted to African climates, why did they migrate/spread to places with much different climates, such as Europe, Asia, present-day Russia/Siberia, etc.? Was it a matter of searching for better food sources (following herds, food shortages in their original region of Africa)? Competition between other humans? Or did early humans just sort of expand their range until they unintentionally wound up in such places? Again, I'm not sure if this is quite the right place to post this sort of history question, but I couldn't find a better one.

Were they released or did they have to stay the remainder of their sentence?

Corsica and Sardinia are separated by a few miles and it seems strange to me that one belongs to France and the other belongs to Italy. Corsica is "closer" to Italy than France. How did this arrangement occur? Did Italy ever possess both islands? Did France? Have these islands been a source of strife for the two countries in the past?

I am having trouble translating a document from 1865. I have the beginning: "the following is a list of the sales of the personal estate of ______ ______ deceased sold by me as administrator on the 21st day of June 1865 on a credit of 6 months"

The document then has three columns with items, titled "names", "articles", and "amounts".

There is a reoccurring item that says "do" and I cannot figure out what they mean by this. It occurs in both the "names" and "articles" columns. And has prices associated with it. I was thinking it might be similar to saying ditto, same as above (SAA), or using the " ".

Here is an example of how "do" would occur in a row:
name: Mrs. Smith, article: 1 do do do, amount: 170.00.

Anyone ever seen this before? Thanks for any help :-)

If so, is there any recording of what they thought, to see their old fantasy become a reality? Also, the film ends with a space capsule landing in the ocean. Was it pure chance that the film's ending matches the ending of many mid-century space missions, or by the early 20th century was it known that a rocket space mission would end in the ocean?

Does anyone know the dimensions of the crosses that mark these graves? My grandad wants to recreate one for 100 years anniversary (he is also 100 this year)

Thank you in advance

Say from Independence to 1840. I'm sure opinions must have differed across Europe, but what were some different attitudes about the new country, and how did they differ from place to place/class to class/etc.

Maybe I'm making the wrong searches but I can't find anything on this online although I would imagine it should be addressed somewhere.

Thanks.

With Washington D.C. being right on the border of Virginia, why wasn't it a major target for an attack by the CSA? Additionally, were there plans to relocate the Union capital if D.C. fell?

While researching an article on the Confederate Battle Flag some years back, I remember reading one account that claimed the (oblique) St. Andrew's cross was chosen for its design (over the -- upright -- St. George's cross) in an effort to mitigate any offense to Richmond's Jewry.

I know that the Scottish flag was also an influence, but could anyone point me to a source for what was claimed above?

What day/event was the closest humanity ever came to full scale war during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

We have all of these manuscripts and poems and epics recounting all of these amazing and complicated stories about their gods, demigods, titans, monsters and other creatures, such as in the Greek and Egyptian religions.

But how much of it was actually taken seriously by these ancient people?

I'm not sure how people back then were actually taught about their respective religions, so some explanation there would be useful. Like, did they have church or religious schooling, or was it just their normal curriculum? And in this context how much of this amazing mythology was actually taught and/or really believed?

Any info regarding the nature of religious belief in the ancient world would be appreciated since I really don't know much regarding it. :)

Title says it all really.

Edit: For a more interesting question, is there any evidence suggesting how widespread Germanic languages were in the British isles before, say 400 AD?