He had previously been undefeated, and seemed to have had the goal of getting out of Italy, why didn't he take his one shot?

And how many planes did it actually shoot down?

In the articles that I have read on the Boer war it mentions that 40-60% of British soldiers were found to be physically unfit to fight. What variables where the Medical Army Corps evaluating when they produced these statistics?

I took 4 years of Latin in high schools, and my teacher never had an answer for this one. Which Latin pronunciation, classical or church, was used (or was closest to) the way Romans actually spoke the language?

I know that other occurrences such as lightning, fire, rain, etc would have triggered supernatural reasoning in early humans.

But even if you were just in a cave, or hut, or inn, or even at your own castle in a nice bed, how would you have explained the light you see when you rub your eyes? Or the light that carries over when staring at other bright lights? Or "shadows" that appear and dissipate when staring blankly in partially dim areas (demons, perhaps)?

Hell, have there ever been tribes dedicated to this sort of thing, or something similar? With a designated Shaman doing weekly rituals of just rubbing the hell out of his eyes among a circle of tribesmen watching, and then him giving some crazy prophecy afterwards or something like that?

Anyway I'm really only curious if we know what us humans thought about these things before we ever came up with natural explanations.

I've been paying attention to my own special demographics advocacy groups and "leaders" and noticed that there is a lot of internal conflict in the movement.

A lot of it seems to be based on class, generational (experiential) differences, educational, and even racial differences. There of course are ideological differences, but as far as I can see those are born out of the others.

I'm interested in looking at parallels in similar civil rights movements to find similarities and differences that could be a good source of experiences to learn from.

It seemed like there should have been more American deaths considering that the Japanese were very well dug in.

In the show people murder people all the time and just walk away like nothing happened. Were the Middle Ages anything like that?

Was there a latrine or just over the deck? Did the captain have his own restroom or anything like that?

When did European countries start allowing large numbers of non-white immigrants? Why?

Europe seems to a have a long history of xenophobia and strong notions of racial superiority. And unlike the United States, European countries seemed to have too many people rather than too few, so I would think places like the UK wouldn't need more people to perform unskilled labor.

It's my understanding that the UK has a lot of Pakistanis and Indians, Germany has a lot of Turks, and France has a lot of North Africans, and this causes a lot of tension.

I suppose I'm defining white as people from Europe with a Christian rather than Muslim background.

I have been asking myself this question for many years after reading the comic, "Henry's Diary", which focusses on the life of british soldiers in the trenches in West-Flanders, Belgium.

At a certain moment the squadron is hiding in a bunker for several days, while the entire area was being bombed to shreds. As this must have been extremely nerve-wrecking, I wonder what the effects of a (non chemical) direct hit would bring.

Of course, this would depend on the type of bunker, or on the material it was built in.

Would it be more likely to die due to the explosion? Collapsing of the walls?

I recently saw an interesting documentary about the Battle of Kadesh, and I couldn't help but be slightly confused regarding the Hittites. Do the Hittites of Hattusa bear any relation to the Hittites of the Old Testament? It would be excellent if someone could explain the difference between the two people.

Thanks!

I understand it was heavily fictionalized, but 300: Rise of an Empire depicts Artemisia as pursuing a personal vendetta against the Greeks for murdering her family and keeping her captive; thus she influenced Xerxes towards war. Xerxes, in turn, also presumably wanted revenge on his father's death.

So, is there anything similar in actual history? Someone plotting vengeance on another nation for many years, before making into a position of power and carrying out their plan?

were any problems enforcing the laws and regulations of the new country despite a popular revolution?

For example was there an overabundance of legal hiccups/court cases debating the meaning of new laws? Were there many people who took advantage of the fledgling government, and alternatively was there heavy extortion by what I imagine at the time must have been a improvise/militarized police force?

North of the Rio Grande there's a long tradition of religious leaders resisting the imperial aspirations of their Euro-American neighbors, whether by influencing military policies (such as with Neolin, Tenskwatawa, Hillis Hadjo, and Neapope) or through more peaceful means of resisting cultural assimilation (Handsome Lake and Wovoka, for example). Back when the Spain claimed lands that are now part of the United States, they also contended with religious leaders like Popé and Toypurina.

Who were their counterparts south-of-the-border and beyond?

It is my understanding that the prophet Mohammad allowed temporary marriage, and that modern Sunnis say he disallowed temporary marriage shortly after. But modern Shi'as say temporary marriage is allowed.

Has temporary marriage been practiced in some form or another in the Middle East since Mohammad's time? Did the first 4 caliphs ban it? The Umayyads? The Abbasids?

If the institution was suppressed, when did it revive? Was it at the start of the Safavid empire?

Are there any major shi'a scholars in recent history (last 150 years or so) that opposed temporary marriage?

Today’s theme comes to us from /u/mojitz!

Today we’re looking for interesting switches in history. You can take this pretty loosely: some ideas would be interesting trades between two groups of people during war or peace, or two people switching places or political stances. /u/mojitz is looking in particular for an example of two warring parties switching capital cities, so if you have an example of that please share it!

Next week on Tuesday Trivia: Rivalries! Pretty simple theme. Any sort of rivalry will do: sports, the arts, politics, war, or what have you.