Do people who believe it started earlier than 1939 believe it had begun with early conflicts in Asia? Or that it began with pre-ww2 german expansion? Or even earlier?

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Drove 2 blocks yesterday, counted about at least a dozen signs from the normal pedestrian crosswalk, no parking, yield to the more specialized instructionals like stop here on red. When did all of these signs start to appear, and how did the need for specialized instructional signs come about?

I remember reading a great article about early US involvement in Vietnam under JFK when they had other priorities last semester, as part of a Cold War module, and it mentioned something to do with the Malayan Emergency and the British counterinsurgency. I can't really remember much else, but it's piqued my interest while I was idly thinking about something related earlier.

I'm aware already that there were some big differences between the two enemies being fought, but did the US take inspiration from some of the anti-communist forces in Malaya anyway?

I had always assumed it was total fiction but recently heard some people believe there was a King Arthur, or perhaps the story is based on an actual King. Obviously, I think the sword in the stone or lady in the water are fiction, but in your opinion is there any truth to the round table, or bringing peace to England?

Say I'm a count or a duke in the Middle Ages. What would my day consist of, what would I do in my free time, and what kind of relationship would I have with vassals and serfs? What about my courtiers?

I know Malaysia expelled Singapore in 1965. But, since then, the economies of both countries seem to diverge drastically. What factors made Singapore so much more successful, economically, than Malaysia?

I know part of this is foreign direct investment and the state wanting industrialization, but Malaysia (for example) gets foreign direct investment and industrialization and seems to be nowhere near Singapore in terms of development. Does this have something to do with the types of foreign direct investment or how industrialization is implemented, or something else entirely?

Edit: Apologies, but I focused a lot of this on Malaysia unnecessarily. This could easily be a comparison between Singapore and any other nation. I just want to know what they did differently that was so successful, and why other developing nations don't just do the same things.

...Or rather, who do you think captures the atmosphere, the chaos, etc. the best?

I'd like to read what it would have been like to stand in the front rows of an army and charge into battle.

I have watched apoclypse now a few times now and every time i see the scene where the US outpost is fighting for the bridge with out commanding officer it makes me question its reality. Is there any truth to events like this that have happened or was this just in the movie?

The wiki page on the Teutonic Knights founding is a little sparse and i was just hoping for some clarification as to how the Teutonic Knights differed from the Hospitallers. Their purposes and actions seem very similar except that the Hospitallers appear to have been created first? Just looking for some juxtaposition of these two very similar groups, thank you.

I am interested in looking up the citation that my grandfather received during WWII. He has never told me more than a few light details about his silver star, and refuses to explain deeper. Is there any system that will let me search by his name, or unit and look up the info that I want.

Thanks

I'm helping a student finish a novella (historical fiction). In one scene, a Carlingue soldier escorts a prisoner to a superior officer and leaves the room. How would he greet him? And what salutations would he use when leaving? Also, what would the officer reply?

Thanks in advance! :)

I had a late night conversation with a man who told me that the real intrigue and power struggles that led to the second war took place in Africa. Any insight or research resource recommendations would be appreciated.

It seems like such an inordinately vast amount of information. Whose voice matters when virtually everyone has one on the internet? What predictions can you make about how people will devise their views on our time? What warnings would you give future historians who are researching us?

I was a little surprised to find that some contemporary Americans are naming their miscarriages and burying them in cemeteries.

I hypothesize that this is related to the abortion debate in the US, in that if you are going to frame an embryo as a human life from the moment of conception, you'd be inclined to do the same thing in relation to spontaneous abortion, also known as miscarriage, in order to bolster that case.

How correct is this? Or, more specifically, were Christians or early Jews commonly treating miscarriage with as much gravity as the death of a child, at any time prior to the Roe v Wade decision?

Tacitus says

"Neither Samnite nor Carthaginian, neither Spain nor Gaul, nor even the Parthians have taught us more lessons. The German fighting for liberty has been a keener enemy than the absolutism of Arsaces."

What made the Germans so implacable?