I know almost nothing about it, what i do know is that it was incredibly costly. I want to know things like if it was related to the end of the cold war, parties involved.

When you think of Roman architecture, you generally picture marble columns and villas, or perhaps walls and roads. Did they build any massive stone castles?

It seems like good life= boring history. In ancient, classical, medieval, renaissance, and even early modern times you had large scale war, usurping, revolutions, rise and fall of empires, "great men" like Alexander and Genghis Khan. It all seemed to end with the fall of the third reich, and now that there is no more Cold War it's not even mildly interesting. Now it's all peaceful and democratic, except for third world holes (not superpowers). Is this to blame on nuclear weapons? Globalization? A shared market in Europe being more prioritized than taking land and resources?

Now that Colorado has legalized marijuana for recreational use, I was wondering why this Midwest state, and Denver (in which I lived for a few years) seems much more liberal than the rest of the midwest.

I remember being taught in U.S. high school that it was deep-seated hatred between Hutus and Tutsis, but when I attended a talk given by Paul Rusesabegina (inspiration for the movie "Hotel Rwanda") in college, he said very few people cared about whether they were Hutu or Tutsi before the assassination of Juvenal Habyarimana and that the largely Hutu army simply wanted more power. I also remember hearing at some point about propaganda broadcasts telling the groups to kill each other, and I just read on Wikipedia that Jared Diamond, author of "Guns, Germs and Steel", theorizes that it was population pressure which led to genocide. So, 20 years down the road- is there a concensus?

The state media shows a grief stricken people that can hardly go on dated the death of their Eternal President Kim Il-Sung in the summer of 1994. This seems to be mostly propaganda. Is there any reports of how the common folk of North Korea reacted? I have been thinking about this one got a while, but it's 2014 now and open to ask!

Soldier's lives during wartime are pretty well documented but I'm curious as to what it would have been like the rest of the time. I'm more interested in recent history (so between the wars and post-WW2). Here's a few questions that come off the top of my head:

• Was the army a popular choice (in the days of national service, this question would become "was staying in the army a popular choice after national service was completed")?
• Would a soldier likely be sent all over the Empire, or would they be focussed on one area for the majority of their careers?
• Were there any particular locations that were more or less desirable to go to?
• How were relations with natives/local communities?
• What sort of duties might occupy a soldier in peacetime?
• What sort of activities would they typically get up to outside of working hours?
• How were the local communities affected by the presence of such soldiers?

I appreciate the answers to these questions will vary wildly depending on the location, so feel free to focus on one area in your responses. Thanks!

Surviving winters, colonists, and sickness have been discussed in length, but I have always wondered how they lived with the frequent tornados that plague the eastern U.S.

I have been thinking about reading Brian Kilmeade's book Washington's Secret Six but have been put off by his strong connection to Fox News. I want to read an accurate and balanced account of Washington's spy network, but I don't trust the author's potential agenda. Does anyone have a perspective on this book? Is it accurate?

The RPF, Interahamwe, Rwandan army?

It's fairly close to the British isles, so why didn't they take it over?

In other words, a proper declaration of war that's not followed by an immediate surprise attack (I understand that the declaration was to occur on the same day as the attack at Pearl Harbour).

Also, how long did it take the Americans in Hawaii to realize that their attackers were Japanese, or did people know that any attack could only ever be Japanese?