I am aware there were recorded tornados in the Middle Ages like the London tornado. But I was unable to find if there was an actual castle in their path and what kind of damage it took? If you would include information on what Europeans in the Classical and Middle ages thought of tornados and how frequent they were that would be appreciated as well.

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I've read that many communists became disillusioned because of the pact. Did it have the same effect on fascist movements?

It's always funny to me seeing maps of Javanese empires such as the Majapahit and Demak and seeing half of their hone island independent even while subjugating vast parts of other islands. I understand that the nature of South-East Asian polities that there's a lot more nuance than what maps can show, but it seems like the Sundanese were able to remain independent outright rather than pay tribute. How were they able to resist the Javanese for so long?

I was recently watching a video by a Russian guy, and he mentioned some American cartoons they got in the 90s that were dubbed like Ghostbusters. But Russia had their own cartoons and childrens shows, so why would they show US cartoons, especially given our meh relations with eachother? And US cartoons also showed up in all sorts of countries, which also had their own cartoons. Why were so many countries willing to accept US cartoons, especially given that they had their own cartoons, but we didn't show cartoons from other countries that weren't close allies like the UK?

Also my last sentence seems to have caused confusion, I worded it oddly. I meant the US showed foreign cartoons, but not cartoons from countries we weren't decent allies with. Should have said unlike the UK, instead of like.

I was hearing Sabaton which is a band that does songs about historical events during major wars and someone commented "they are like modern bards".

And i started doing some research about bards and troubadours and that kind of stuff but there is very little information about them.

And i would like to find any exemple of some of the writings and stuff they composed, so if anyone knows where I can get more content about them it would be awesome.

And also if anyones knows something even older that bards that illustrates how music can transmit real or fictive/mytical histories it would be awesome

Double points if they are available on audible and have a good narrator

Like was he accurate like that in real life or was it completely off or some slight exaggeration? I'm dying to know.

Pardon the typo, it should be Russia instead of Russian

I was really curious when it came up in elementary school, but I've never gotten closure on this.

It seems that any discussion of the Bush administration immediately resorts to the wars in Iraq & Afghanistan or other tenets of it like the Patriot Act.

I know he wasn’t in office very long before September 11th, but what was the general reception & thoughts on his administration up to that point/what was on the administration’s agenda?

The Bible never mentions selling your soul for profit, but this idea is such a media staple. Which version of the Christian canon did this come from? How did it gain so much popularity? How far back does it go?

You know the paintings I'm talking about. The ones that are often used for memes and look like something only insanity could come up with. What're the running theories for these paintings? Old timey hallucinations? Literal fever dreams? Extreme metaphors?? I'd love to understand them a little more.

I've just started reading Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon. In this novel, Igraine belongs to a noble family yet she seems a bit obsessed with spinning and the author seems to feel that this is something ladies should know how to do and occupy their time with. And then I remembered, Sleeping Beauty, another famous story where a princess (spoiler alert) pricked her finger on a spindle.

Having never been royalty, I don't know what a royal lifestyle might normally be or have been like, but I would not have imagined manual labour would play a normal role in it. Rather, I'd have expected spinning would have be done by servants, craftsmen, or cottage industries, or rather anyone not of blue blood.

So, was spinning actually once a suitable or even expected activity for noble woman? If so, was this manual labour an exception or were noble women expected to engage in a range of physical jobs? When did this end? (I can't imagine Queen Elizabeth sitting at a spinning wheel making yarn.)

I was reading about the Swedish royal family yesterday and couldn't find an answer to this question about which I got curious. If I understand correctly, only the King's sister who married a prince remains part of the royal house, whilst the other sisters do not. Yet the Crown Princess married a man who was not of royal or noble descent, and retains her succession rights. The UK royal family have also had marriages with non-royals in the last decades. When and why did this become permitted and/or acceptable? Did it change amongst all monarchies in Europe at similar times, or did some royal houses judge others for relaxing the rule?

Or in the case of Sweden, have there always been different rules for those in direct succession lines compared to extended family members? Thanks for your answers and please excuse me if I have gotten confused here!