Write-ins seem like a quaint, outdated idea in today's U. S. mega-elections, but has it always been this way? If a write-in candidate were to be elected, is there a system in place in the event that they were to decline the position?

What is it that when the Viking met the Native Americans the Native Americans didn’t go extinct from diseases?

I come from another completely different academic field but just out of curiosity, I was wondering where do you get these from and what are the most important/influential magazines/journals. Do you have preprints servers similar to what arxiv does with math/physics?

If these does not fit this sub, I'm sorry and please tell me where I should post this question.

Peace.

So we’ll start with a short summary of what I understand of the battle of Berlin. The Germans were low on resources and man power, they had a few divisions of veteran units and tanks but they did heavily rely on civilians to include children as a last minute defensive measure, they had little to no air power. That being said the defense barley lasted two weeks where as the soviet defense of Stalingrad lasted longer. Not to mention in Stalingrad to get the Soviets supplies they had to cross the Volga river. Germans had plenty of time to prepare the city and had some what superior fire power like AT guns and tanks (I understand most had mechanical problems but in a static position they should do fairly well) along with fighting building to building street to street.

I assume people understood something about propagation of traits through practicing agriculture, e.g. raising livestock, crops, etc., but would they have chalked it up to a simple general principle that “the created resembles the creator”, or something like that? God did it? Cosmic coincidence?

I’m pretty sure that when “Jesus was born” that there was not a global announcement that it was know 0, so how did people know the year. Also, people in like 150ad, how would they know?

There is speculation that the Young Dryas event over 11,000 years may have caused the extinction of horses in the Americas. Considering that Europe and Asia still had horses whose domestication revolutionized warfare, commerce, and communication among communities, would Indigenous societies have been more advanced upon the arrival of colonists had they still had horses?

I’ll be traveling to Egypt with my family in January and would love some (preferably short) book recommendations on ancient Egyptian history and mythology to enrich the whole travel experience.

Watching an old Chernobyl documentary, with footage from a variety of clean up, and one of the entries is of the soldiers who remmoved the blocks from the ceiling of Reactor 4. They are told they will receive 50 rubles for this one minute of work.

So I'm curious, what were some other bonuses or bounties paid out for different tasks? And, that 50 rubles seems like an extremely small sum for the risk involved, but is this an accurate take?

Hi was wondering of our recorded history, pre 1600 era. How do we know that the quotes attribute to these historian individual are actually authentically said by them.

What techniques can we use to measure it

And also is chain of transmission an accurate way of measuring it? So chain of transmission is reputable Person 4 heard from reputable person 3 from previous generation who heard from reputatable person 2 from previous generation who heard from the main source in saying this quote.

How well does that technique stack up with other technique historian use (if they use it).

Thanks

What is the history of the development of his image?

This is based under the assumption that we don’t know what he may have actually looked like and also that the depictions I’ve seen are indeed the most common, i.e. long hair, bearded, prominent nose, high cheekbones etc.

In the opening chapter of Max Adams’ book The First Kingdom he mentions that many villas in Roman Britain were owned by Gallo-Roman civil servants and that they were still visited and used after the withdrawal. I also remember seeing archaeological analysis of a mosaic found in Gloucestershire that indicated it was laid down in 430 AD.

Apologies if this question is too broad. I’m just interested in how some cities became abandoned and gained little significance after (such as Letocetum) and some survived to this day in some recognisable stature (such as Camulodunum).

So, the name similarity between the group of ethnicities and the color is evident. I would believe it to be a coincidence if it wasn't for the fact I have noticed the turquoise color being used various times in Turanist iconography.

So, what gives? Where does this tradition come from?

And by that I mean how were they *actually* drawn? I understand a lot of them are natural boundaries or arbitrary (parallels and meridians), but what did it actually look like in practice? Was there ever a meeting between, say, two or more state representatives just looking at a map and drawing lines? And if so, I imagine this would normally take a lot of time. Or would they just reference the existing county lines and historical boundaries in treaties? And once they were done, how would they implement the new lines, would they just message the local border guards on where to put their men on the roads? I understand the answer could vary depending on the time period, part of the world, etc. but I would like to know what the most common practices were.

And if so, did they ever comment on the difference between the beaches available in their colonies compared to the ones back in Europe, specifically from a leisure standpoint?

It's like the title says, Everytime i see an online quote, It's always attributed to Abraham Lincoln, Why?

This is definitely an r/showerthoughts moment, but I really appreciate this sub for it's extensivity and moderation. I see a lot of history threads on other websites — especially Quora — and it's embarrassing how much bias is inherently included. I'll often see how "[enter war criminal] was actually a really gifted soldier that's misunderstood" and the essay goes on, paragraph after paragraph. The same goes for most discussions about any possibly "controversial" event throughout history. When I find a thread in this sub that's not entirely -deleted- there's a lot of really incredible information that I never would have found if I hadn't studied the topic exclusively. Thank you posters and moderators alike, you're doing a wonderful job!

We’re always taught that the reason we celebrate Christ’s birth the 25th of December is because it roughly coincides with different pagan feasts when the real reason is because it’s exactly nine months after the annunciation of the Lord.

Is a way to de-Christianize society like we also se with the ‘merry Christmas’/‘happy holidays’ debate right now or is it just a myth no one has bothered to correct?

I know that wolves originated in Eurasia and I was trying to figure out how they got here. I thought they might have been like horses where all of them were originally domesticated and brought over but google told me they have been here for 750,000 years. This made me wonder, when did mammals (excluding humans) stop migrating across the Bering Strait?