While I understand that the Winged Hussars doubtlessly looked completely kickass in their winger armor, it seems to utterly impractical to wear to war. Why would they wear such armor?

I guess it's a sort of chicken and egg question I'm asking. Without National Socialism would we never have heard of Hitler or vice versa?

It's a bizarre practice, but considered normal among many people I know in the U.S. I remember my mother keeping our teeth we lost as kids in a jar or something in her room.

When did this become normal? When-ish did it start? What sort of cultural phenomena such as this occurs else where?

Anton Drexler was a man who, after WWI, founded the DAP (German Workers' Party) in 1919. Hitler eventually joined up in 1919 and pushed Drexler out of the leader position of the party, by now renamed the NSDAP (National Socialist German Workers' Party, AKA the Nazi Party). After Hitler's failed 1923 coup, he sort of faded into obscurity. Anyone know what became of him before he died in 1942?

Is there a food surplus or what factors have made it that way?

Relevant passage:

Their beverage is made of some root, and it will not keep for more than two or three days. It is rather sharp in taste, not at all heady, good for the stomach, and laxative to those who are not used to it; it is a very pleasant drink to those who are. Instead of bread they use white stuff like preserved coriander, which I have tasted; the flavour is sweetish and rather insipid."

The They:

These people inhabit the seashore, and are shut in on the landward side by a range of high mountains, which leave a strip about a hundred leagues in depth between them and the sea.

Also mentioned (in case this helps): They had long, wooden buildings ("barns"), and cotton beds hanging from the ceiling. Each barn was a village. They did not practice agriculture, but instead hunted.

I have read The Guns of August, and then The Zimmerman Telegram. I would like to read all of her books that are highly acclaimed.

I was reading a book by a very progressive leaning author who made no apologies in arguing that the passing of Taf-Hartley signified the end of worker's representation that was just reaching a powerful point in American Politics. He went on to argue that it should be repealed and would help bring back an age of worker's centric politics in America.

However I was reading in the Oxford Companion to US Government that the bill was passed because unions were in fact exercising more than understandable power in situations that weren't even necessary. It basically implied that unions were perceived as abusing their power and that this was why the bill was prompted.

I don't have an idea either way and was hoping if some US politic-oriented historians here could give me a bit of insight into what this bill changed for America as a whole, and if it has as much to do with worker exploitation today as the author claimed?

Thanks!

I read the Ottoman Age of Exploration a few months back and decided to reread a few sections.

Some sections said that the Ottoman Sultan's name would be read out before prayers in the mosque. Another part of the book quotes the rulers of Aceh practically begging to be made part of the Ottoman empire.

So what's the deal with this? Why not just ask for an alliance, seeing how the Ottomans were so far away?

I mean I know he wanted to defer to him b/c he felt that he was not a military man, but even after removing him from head general he still left him in command of the Army of the Potomac.

Also, if you can list significant acts of genocide, that would be helpful.

More specifically, given a musket or early rifle, what type of bullets would be used, how would they be loaded?

Were there any models with "magazines", or was that a 1900's invention?

Also, how long would it taken, after firing, to prepare for another?

Ive had a look at some wikipedia pages but was hoping for some more information on the matter, thanks in advance!

Edit: Also, same questions as above, but with pistols.

For example, Bob Dylan and Phil Ochs sing many protest songs about the Vietnam war. Is folk music related to any of the civil rights movements? (Black, Women's..)

I remember reading somewhere that the African population quadrupled since the 1950's?! Is colonialism to partially blame for the current disparities and poverty currently going on, along with high rates of disease in HIV? Can someone please fill me in?!

Is the quipu way less efficient than writing? If so, are there any theories as to why the Inca stuck with it instead of developing writing? Why aren't there any other civilizations with this sort of system? Writing developed independently all over the world. Why not the quipu or something similar?