Whether balanced or more apologetic/sympathetic towards one "side", I'll take any source the historians of reddit themselves find credible. Preferably academic articles and the like over books (although I'm not resistant to those either. Reason being to pursue my own curiousity about the IRA and because I'd like to write a school paper (first year of college) on the Good Friday Agreement. Thank you so much!

It seems like something that would be natural with Operation Faustschlag and Germany's desire to make Ukraine and Poland independent -- even if as satellite states.

Horses are not native to North America but they were used by Native Americans at a certain point. How long did this process take from introduction to incorporation? How long did the knowledge of horses take to spread throughout the American continents?

I recently came across two interesting statements regarding the city of Kiev and Russia. They are:

"A Russian nation without Kiev is a sad Russia." and "Kiev is like the childhood home of the Russian nation."

I was curious what exactly these statements meant, so I checked up on Kiev a little bit. It seems it was founded by Vikings. (Or so I'm assuming. The source I read said it was founded by "Varangians." When I hear Varangian, I think of the Byzantine Empire's Varangian Guard, which was mostly Scandinavians.) Since the nation that grew around Kiev was called "Rus", I'm assuming it's somehow related to the country of Russia. However, Rus seemed to fall to the Mongols several centuries before Russia the nation existed.

I have a vague understanding of why the Russians may see it as their "childhood home", but could someone explain it more thoroughly to me? I'm wondering if it's similar to the way both the French and Germans consider Charlemagne to be the founder of their nations and descended from the Carolingian Empire, despite France and Germany not having technically existed at the time the Empire did.

Furthermore, do all cultures retain the same method of referring to ships in the feminine? Do Asian, Native American, Latin American etc. history all refer to ships in the feminine?

Gross topic, I know. Curious especially about those periods we associate with high culture, manners and formality that were pre-deodorant:

• Renaissance Italy
• Court of Versailles
• Victorian England
• Southern US cotillion balls

They wore a shit ton of clothes while they were doing their minuets and waltzes and what-not. Surely they must have stank and shvitzed like crazy during the summer. What does the historical record have to say about it?

Was being stank-free a possibility? Did they invest stank with moral or character valuations?

And how did they cope? What gender differences were there? What technologies did they use, if any, to mask or eliminate it?

I've heard that they were centers of poor hygiene and disease beds, is this true?

Or did they join voluntarily?

Specifically Ukraine and Georgia.

Several centuries ago, lobster was considered a low-class food option. It is now considered a luxury everywhere it is eaten. What caused this switch?

Monasteries were often self-sufficient, so aside from herbal medicine other plants like spices and vegetables would be grown. How large of a variety was in these plants? Is there a difference in what could be grown in certain regions?

Even now (I know 10 year-rule) Russia apparently effectively controls the disputed region of Moldova. Where does this support come from that led them to back Transnistria in the 1992 war?

Hello! The title pretty much sums it up and I could really use some help. What should I write about? It could be pretty much anything, but my limit is 10 pages double spaced.

I really like the work of Gustav Klimt and he has appeared in my professor's lectures several times, but how could I spin that into a research topic. What do you guys think? Could I focus in on an achievement or particular piece he did? Compare him to someone else? I am interested in your thoughts and would be willing to write about just about anything so long as it is not too difficult to research!

Thank you for your help!

like people from Asia, Middle East, and South America who were living in the United States during the time of segregation. what about mixed "race" people? i ask this because i have only have heard and learn stuff during this time about "black" and "white" people but im sure that there were other "races" in the United States.

For example if I am informed on by my neighbour for a crime against the state and I'm arrested, what would they do to me in order to get me to confess?

Would these methods differ if I was a General/Officer/State Official during the Stalinist Purges (assuming I was arrested and questioned)?