Did the word for the shape 'pyramid' derive from the names of the monuments in Egyptian, or are the pyramids named after the shape? If the latter is true, then what were the pyramids known as to the Egyptians?

Is it really true that we do not know what happened in practice when the frontlines of two ancient armies collided? I.e whether they stopped a couple meters before or whether they crashed into eachother. Dan Carlin makes this claim often.

What is the origin of giving an apple to a teachers as a gift?

So during the French Revolution, when the emigre French princes were in England, I'm reading that they received "generous allowances from the Prince of Wales". But no more details. Was this out of taxpayer money or out of the prince's "personal household", or what?

Who was the first English monarch to set foot in America?

This is king of a stupid question but What actually is a historian? What makes you considerd a historian do you need credentials how do you become one and is being a historian a job or a side thing you do after work Becuase i cant think of how you get paid besides publishing works and selling books

Hodor from Game of Thrones is the most recent example of a character that expresses themselves exclusively through repeating the same phrase. There are many others... Groot, Beeker, every Pokemon. Do these characters have a historical basis? Has a person been written about that only said the same thing to every question or as every expression? Thank you.

How aware of each other's naval size policy were Great Britain and Germany during the Anglo-German Naval arms race of the early 1900s?

Was the "Two Power Policy" known to German planners?

As I've heard it, British planners wanted to maintain the navy at the size of the next 2 powerful navies combined; traditionally Russia and France, but now Germany and the US (and Japan) were contenders.

And that Wilhelm pushed for the Imperial Navy to be 2/3s the size of the Royal Navy. Those two policies are bound for an arms race but did Britain know that was a German goal or did they think Germany wanted to surpass Britain in size?

Am trying to get into Portuguese colonial history, how reliable is CR Boxer since I keep seeing his name everywhere?

When is it estimated that sails began to be used in Northern/Western Europe.

Who was the longest serving Roman senator?

When and why did Indonesia and the Philippines and Borneo get kicked out of Oceania

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Oceania#/media/File%3A1852_Bocage_Map_of_Australia_and_Polynesia_-Geographicus-_Oceanie-bocage-1852.jpg

I've heard that the galloi, the priests of Attis, couldn't obtain the roman citizenship, because they were eunuchs, so 'unmanly'. What happened after the Constitutio Antoniniana? Did everyone of them obtain full citizenship, or their self-eviration was still seen with disgust by the roman elite?

I'm currently reading Barzun's From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, and I'm really enjoying it. Is there any sort of equivalent to it for Eastern civilization?

How accurate is Black Sails when it comes to clothing and set scenes? I get so immersed in this show!

Was the divine right of kings treated with solemnity and a sense of literalism, or was it primarily used as a means to an end?

Are there several philosophers or historians who made treatments on the concept of divine right, or was it more of an accepted reality of its time?

In 1942 Lyudmila Pavlichenko spoke in Chicago and said "Gentlemen, I am 25 years old and I have killed 309 fascist invaders by now. Don't you think, gentlemen, that you have been hiding behind my back for too long?"

I have been trying to find the location where she gave this speech. Everything I find has just listed "Chicago" Does anyone know the location within Chicago?

Were there any philosophy books published in especially the 19th century but also maybe the 18th century that advocated for monarchy as a system of government?

Like how a lot of enlightenment thinkers advocated republics for a more equal society; I'm wondering if there were counter books that advocated monarchy.

Like after Napoleon became Emperor, was there works published on why monarchy was more stable? Or in the late 19th century, why the constitutional monarchies of Europe were a better system than French or American republicanism?

How easy was it to immigrate to a large city like Ancient Rome? How easy was it to just come and go in and out of the city, for pleasure or business? Could any single person simply walk in through the front gates or were travel visas a norm? Was it similar throughout the ancient world in the Roman Empire?

I’m currently doing a research project on John James Audubon and so far all of my sources name different birth places. France, Haiti, and Louisiana seem to be the most frequent, but does anyone have any information about where he was actually born?

Where can I find footage of America. from the 50s and 60s, is there an archive of sorts somewhere, other than youtube? I enjoy checking any footage I can on youtube, but I've ran out. Any ideas?

What are some good resources for maritime/ sailor/ pirate lore?

When I google pirate myths all I get is myth busting listicles "hurr durr pirates didn't actually bury their treasure." I'm looking to find myths and legends like St. Brandons Island, Davy Jones, the urban legend about blackbeard and the two and twenty blackbirds rhyme, mermaids, and other sea beasts and I'm not sure what keywords to use or where to look because I'm tired of reading the same four pirate "facts."

Was Karafuto the Japanese name for the whole island or just their prefecture? Did they use the term Sakhalin?

Reposting another person's question that got deleted and redirected here. Did World War II era US officers on the front lines actually wear rank insignias on their helmets?

Does anyone know where I can find some good academic sources on the redevelopment of European infrastructure after World War II?

Specifically I am interested in the redevelopment of transportation infrastructure like roads. I've found a bunch of journal articles and listicles that are like, "so after the war Europe was really broken, and then Marshall Plan and stuff, everything is fixed now." I can't find anything on the actual challenges posed to people responsible for like putting together work crews or whatever.

What was the most volatile stock in global financial history?

There are 3 kinds of Mandarin: The people, the language and the fruit. In what order did these come about and were named "Mandarin"?

Okay, is this: https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/VDYm5xkniEUSxWRPE3ba85.jpg
A picture of Valentina Tereshkova or Yuri Gagarin? My gut tells me it's Valentina and a reverse image search shows it as such. However it also frequently comes up on google labelled as a picture of Gagarin. The outfit conceals a lot of their body and I'm face blind plz help haha

Is there a set of records listing people the U.S. government hired to work at Japanese internment camps in WWII? I’m trying to find out the dates for when someone worked at one as a teacher. I’ve looked at some ed records that California put online, but they’re mostly about number of students; very few mentions of staff other than superintendents, etc. I figure that kind of record may not exist, of course, but I figured someone here might know if it does. I’m not a historian, so don’t know what to check.

What would the price of a candy apple have been around 1940? I know that they were originally sold for five cents in 1908, but I can't find any pricing information from later years.

What is a good resource for information (written or filmed) about London in the 1920s? What life was like, how it looked, things like that.

What is the general reaction of historians to Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee?

What's the best tv series to watch to learn about the ancient roman way of life?

Where is the “Scared Mussolini” image from?

What is the earliest etymological entry for the word Palestine? I read theories from Latin and Greek to Hebrew, ancient Egyptian, and even Assyrian. What entry do historians point as the reliably earliest entry in the etymology of the word Palestine?

Are Jews descendant of the 12 tribes of Israel, or just of the tribe of Judea?

Or am I completely misremembering my bible classes from years and years ago?

Where can I learn more about Great strategist / battles in general? Preference on older warfare China or Mongolia or other great conquests / unifications for exemple (not necessarily about Asia)

What do we know about the influence of Tiwanaku culture on that of the Inca? Did the Inka ever coexist with the Tiwanaku people? Is there any evidence that the Inka learned their stone masonry skills from the Tiwanaku ?

So opinions are obviously subjective but where can I find a list of large-scope surveys that are popular among historians? E.g. a list that might have Braudel's Civilization and Capitalism, Hobsbawm's trilogy starting with Age of Revolution, and Diarmaid MacCullough's Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years? I tried putting them in a google search but mostly got articles about Hobsbawm.

During ww2 at Ortona for example why didnt that allies just destroy the houses with tanks or explosives from a far?

Ramsay McMullen made a claim in Christianizing the the Roman Empire that the increase of Christianity was driven by social advantage and miracles, especially the effectiveness of Christian and Jewish exorcism above and beyond pagan miracles and exorcisms. What is the current status of these claims?

Let me know if this is more of a "own thread" question.

Q: What happened to the children of princes and princesses and their descendants in the past? And the lands awarded to them?

Who was the A.B. Franklin wrote to? (Time is money)

"To my Friend A. B.

As you have desired it of me, I write the following Hints, which have been of Service to me, and may, if observed, be so to you.

Remember that Time is Money. "
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-03-02-0130

Kind thanks.

I read in a book that Bangladesh means land of cannabis...

Bhang = cannabis

Desh = land/country

Is this true?

The book says the drug war forced the region to cut out all the cannabis plants along the hills, and that this caused erosion and subsequent flooding happening now years later.

Just hoping to get some thoughts from people here.

Why do people say “Kennedy put a man on the moon” when no one went on the moon until like 6 years after?

Is there an international history vault similar to like the seed bank? I would think it would be important to have something like that setup in case of a disaster and also not having a reliance on one country.

was this true? https://old.reddit.com/r/MurderedByWords/comments/mh0ct4/a_massive_persecution_complex/

How many Russian civilians were killed in World War 1? Thx

Were women tortured as frequently and severely as men during the Spanish Inquisition?

Roman numeral assistance. 299,792 I've Come up with VII CC CCC Last 3 CCC has over score making it 300,000 300,000-208:299,792 Is that right?

Why couldn't merchant ships merely sale around the caribbean (like more into open sea) to avoid pirates during the golden age? Why couldn't they stock up on more rations and take a wide arc around the troubled area?

Could Greek completely replace Latin as official language of Rome before the Common Era?