Hello, all! I've been asking this question around reddit, and quite a few people directed me here.

I'm writing a short story, and my main character is a baker (hence why I need to know desserts). If anyone knows any, it would be appreciated. I'm trying to get past obvious things like streudel.

My friend was telling me about how, in the Eastern Orthodox church, one of the possible marks of sainthood is being incorruptible after death, meaning that the body does not decay after death. Do any of you know any more about this?

I was just doing some research on the U.S. Constitution, and my eye keeps getting drawn to mark over the e in We, and I'm very curious why it's there. Is there some sort historical or grammatical relevance for it? Or is it simply just there because that's how Jacob Shallus wrote?

Thank you in advance for your insight!

I understand that celebrity impersonators, that is, people who do a variety of celebrity impersonations, are a type of talent act, but why has this particular cottage industry, specializing in this one person, captured the popular consciousness (and remained so popular) to such a degree? And what led to its rise?

Britain?

I've seen several respondents make this statement, obliquely, and my one "real" history book (English military analysis from 1872--1890) makes the same claim. Neither really explain why: the history book says British commanders were enamored with the elan and old school chivalry, and romanticism, of the South. However, romantic ideals seem to be a terrible way to conduct war.

I've been reading up (based on an argument) about mermaids and sirens. I've read Wikipedia entries about both creatures, but am getting confused where some people are using the term mermaid and siren intechangably. I understand from an etomogy stand point, French Italian and Spanish all use Siren to describe both. However, historically, is there a misnomer in modern English having two terms, or are they truly seperate creatures? Starbucks, for instance, calls it's two tailed mermaid the Siren, pulling it's companies name and logo from literature.

I asked this question the other day, but for some reason, every response it got either disappeared with no trace or was deleted, so I figured I'd try it again.

I'm watching the Ken Burns doc, and seemingly not even every 15 minutes is there mention of how catastrophic many of the battles were. Different accounts from witnesses making statements such as (from Clara Barton) "I had to wring the blood from the bottom of my clothing before I could step, for the weight about my feet." I can understand some reasons: technology such as the Gattling and the new versions of bullets and rifles. Were the tactics used more deadly? Did the soldiers have the attitude or ability that was more inclined to want to kill? What other reasons caused this extremely high number of deaths?

How did they afford to travel around the Mediterranean as missionaries (ex. Paul and Peter)? Where did they get the funds to build churches?

I'm wondering if pirates operating in the Caribbeans during the 1600s to 1700s smoked cannabis, or consumed it in any other way.

Watching the death of Yugoslav makes it seem pretty clearly that Milosevic's fomenting of Serbian nationalism in Kosovo in order to increase his own authority was the spark that lit off the Yugoslav Wars.

What events prior to that and behind that allowed that spark to so quickly explode into ethnic warfare in a seemingly peaceful nation?

How did Josip Broz Tito manage to contain what turned out to be such a volatile population?