Small question

How is the "varangian" in varangian guard pronounced?

I've been going by its pronounced va-air-ann-gee-ann but I feel as though that might be wrong.

I'm posting here in hopes that a moderator will tell me if it's an appropriate question for the main subreddit. I found out that my grandfather operated a burlesque theater in Riga, Latvia shortly before he fled the Nazi invasion in the late 30s. I imagine that there might have been newspaper announcements or posters advertising shows there. It would be the coolest thing in the world to find a vintage poster or other advertisement for a show happening at his theater. Any suggestions on how to undertake this search would be welcomed. Sadly, my grandfather is no longer with us, so I no longer have him as an available source of information.

Came across this wonderful summation of the western hegemonic narrative by /u/agentdcf.

I like to think I'm a fairly questioning fellow, but seeing it laid out bare like that was a bit of the shock to the system.

I'll come on /r/askhistorians and find out interesting things about colonial narrative and the trans-atlantic slave trade, or critiques of feudalism or the dispelling of myths surrounding WWI/WWII/land reforms in the 19th century or whatever and enjoy plucking at historical tidbits and think nothing more of it.

Then I read this and look up and up at the mountain of internalisation I've done of a flawed narrative. Damn.

So, what do you guys think of the Barbarians Rising series in the History Channel? It is now showing in my country, which surprised me a lot because I had given up on History Channel here because it only airs that Pawn Shop, or whatever that meme is named.

I started watching the first two episodes and I noticed it was quite...dramatic. A lot of acting that I just took as fantasy drama. The show is so heavy on the drama and so high on the whole Barbarians revolt against evil Rome, that I started to question how much value I should put on it. Shame this is something to be questioned of the History channel, but oh well.

So, what are your opinions of the show regarding it's veracity and historical accuracy? Is it to be trusted or just watch it as a casual movie about Rome's military enemies? It just feels nice watching the History channel again.

Looking forward to the AMA. Given how controversial Weatherford is amongst academic Mongolists, it'll be interesting to see what he has to say.

Does anyone know why it seems that, nearly without exception, highly-upvoted questions attract dozens and dozens of terrible-quality answers?

Are these posts simply hitting /r/all and therefore getting exposure to the "general public"? Or are these dedicated trolls who keep making new alts to subscribe?

Mods do an excellent job of keeping the comments cleaned (I very rarely see the comments themselves, just the removal and the mod reply), but it seems never-ending.

Does anyone know some good books/works about Gustav II. Adolf? I'm writing a essay for school about him and can't seem to find any good write - ups. Thanks in advance (and sorry if this is the wrong subreddit for such a question)!

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Sorry if I'm late, but what information do we have on diabetes (type 1) throughout history? I know there's a lot of information relating to sweet urine (the word "mellitus(?)" literally means "sweet".)

But do we have any information before the 20th century about DKA, or other related symptoms?