Like the title says, I'm curious if the Japanese were the only pilots ever to implement this strange technique. I'm referring to fighter pilots only, not other suicide type missions.

I suppose this also applies to other wars since then, but WWII came to mind because it was just such a huge operation. Any information about other wars is also welcome!

Edit: I cannot thank this community enough. I was reading a non-fiction history book recently about guerrilla warfare where Josephus is cited extensively and I had a horrible moment of remembering Zeitgeist and wondering if he ever existed or not. Thank you for clearing this up and for taking the time to look at my question.

I was watching Viaggio en Italia from Rosselini and Sanders' character mentions that being out of Britain costs 10 pounds a day.

Does he mean expenses such as hotels and car or maybe a weak pound? (which doesn't make sens especially against the lira... Does it?)

Anyhow thanks in advance!

I'm interested in the types of food that were common in the Roman Republic/Empire (prior to fall of the west). Are there any cookbooks that survive today or maybe primary sources that describe the foods that were eaten? Also, I'm curious to know how meals would differ depending on social status or occupation (especially for slaves, gladiators, and soldiers).

This is referring to ancient times. I may be completely wrong but I always thought that the Iberian peninsula was modern day Spain. But then I saw on a map recently that Iberia is actually to the easy of Greece. Could anyone clear up my confusion on the difference? Are they related?

I know that none have been successful, but what is the furthest that anyone has gotten in attempting a coup and seizing power?

What is generally accepted by historians?

A common theme in a number of books I've read recently is that, post-1990, Western historians benefitted greatly from opening of the KGB, Foreign Affairs, and other archives previously off-limits to them. Nonetheless, the exact nature of the change in perspective is fairly vague, so I was wondering whether anyone had some concrete examples of how the access to previously unseen primary evidence challenged traditional views?

Or, alternatively, is my interpretation of the archives opening completely false?

I had an absolutely awful teacher throughout middle and high school where all we had to know in History class was our own country's history and world war II. I realized today that I know nothing of this world I live in and that makes me feel genuinely stupid. I would like to learn but I'm also a student know and this means I don't have time to read the whole bookstore. Is there something more fun? In school it was a chore and you do your chores because you must and that's how I learned what I know but now it's not a chore and excruciatingly studying history won't make me like to read it.

So...?

Game of Thrones last night got me thinking about it again. My uneducated guess is no--based on my educated understanding of modern media--but I'm open/happy to be convinced otherwise.

We were talking about the S and L crisis in my political econ class, and the topic caught my interest, because it seems so similar to the 2008 crisis, which was obviously much worse.

My professor talked about the economy being segmented in order to contain failures and economic problems, and he made it sound like this segmentation was pretty much the reason the crisis resolved relatively well.