I been trying to find information on this, but I am having a hard time understanding it. From what I read one of their gods, or their main god was said to be a wolf.

I was hoping to learn how people developed beyond things like a sundial, and started building devices to keep more accurate time of shorter intervals.

EDIT: Just to clarify, I meant a time keeping device that didn't need you to have the sun or stars around you.

My family used to have a set of encyclopedias of late sixties vintage which contained a lengthy entry on the Cold War. This got me thinking about just when the term came into vogue.

As a follow up, are there emotional historians in the same way that there are economic or military historians?

Would I be able to just dive down there and grab whatever I wanted or does it belong to a certain foundation or country?

I read on Reddit that the population of German Jews was around 600,000. I was very surprised about this. I knew that 6M Jews died in WWII, and I found out that they were mostly Polish Jews. Of course, Jews in other countries died like in Lithuania and so on. Here are my questions and comments.

• Why aren't the Polish people viewed with discontent like the Nazi party in this pogrom?
• For sure, some Polish Christians had to have been involved in the deaths of their Jewish countrymen. Who in Poland allowed this to happen?
• Why did Hitler spend so much effort in eliminating Polish Jews and not German Jews?

Just like the title says. I have no background in the topic so nothing too advanced, but not an overly popular treatment either. Any recommendations?

I am reading Anne Applebaum's Iron Curtain right now. One thing that I'm not sure I understand is how Germany was actually partitioned into East and West. Was it the case that there was a gradual shift towards two different countries on both sides, or was there an official agreement between the Soviet and the British/American/French governments that the country would be partitioned. To what extend did the agreement at the Yalta conference play a role in this? Also, were the Marshall Plan and Berlin Blockade contributing factors, or by that time was the partition already a foregone conclusion?

Thanks for reading, could be totally off-base with some of this, so feel free to correct/enlighten.

More specifically: was I recruited in Scotland, or did I have to travel to the Continent before enlisting? Was I recruited alone or as part of a larger group? Where there requirements I needed to meet to be considered as a recruit (i.e. my own weapon, prior experience as a soldier, etc.) or could any able-bodied man get hired on?

What is your response to the assertion

"A majority of the people who do serious academic study of Biblical history identify as adherents of Christian denominations." ??

I often see people asserting that this is true, and others denying that it is.

- I'd be especially interested if anyone can point me to any firm numbers on this (a survey of Biblical scholars, for example.)

I'm aware that a lot of modern speculation about pirates is false, but were the parrots real? It seems a little far fetched that pirates owned parrots, so it might be real. Don't question my logic.

It seems to me that nearly every culture today has ~3 names associated with a person at birth. The first name, the middle name, and the last name. How did this standard develop?

Illegal's probably not the right word for it (because at least nowadays it would be protected under the first amendment) but would Voodoo rituals be something the police would routinely investigate or break up? I ask because I'm Reading "The Call of Cthulhu" and this seems to be implied but I wanted to know if this was the actual attitude of the time or something Lovecraft just made up of the pulp magazines.

Prior to domestication and agriculture, while we still hunted and gathered, did people have large amount of fat? Or did they have "toned", low fat bodies? From my understanding, after a while the body will adapt to low levels of food and attempt to store everything that is put into it.

The question has two parts:

1. When and why did men start shaving their facial hair?
2. When and why did women start shaving their underarms, legs, pubic area?

In 1783, Great Britain made peace with 13 separate nations, the 13 American Colonies. They went on to union and formed one country, the United States of America in a Confederation of States, where all of the states were bound together in a Congress, they formed a Federal gov. with representatives from all states in Congress. The Constitution said nothing about secession of a state, and the president prior to Lincoln, Buchanan, stated he had no right to send troops to force South Carolina back into the union of States. Since this is the case, why was reforming all the seceded states back into the union such a big deal for Lincoln?

I apologize that my post is less of a single question and more of a series of questions. Right now I'm trying to write a paper on paternalism in antebellum Virginia. I'm trying to connect that model of slavery to integration and the Civil Rights movement up until the mid 1960s. I've made some progress and the paper will do fine, but I wanted to know what the more knowledgable members of the community thought of my topic.

Were there people upset by the Meiji reforms who believed that Japanese culture was being eroded and polluted by foreign influences, and that the solution was to renew the "vitality" of the Japanese people through military aggression and conquest?

I imagine it was related to unknown efficacy of either type of bomb, and different tactical considerations, but also, how did this uranium/plutonium difference play out in the overall Cold War?