What could 1 Yen buy in 1880?

How would ancient hour glass makers know their tools were accurate to a certain amount of time?

If Prince Charles succeeds to the British throne and (as is expected) keeps his given name to become Charles III, it will be almost 350 years since the death of the last British King Charles. This is just barely piped by the 368 years between Edward VI and Edward VII. Are there any examples of longer gaps between regnal namesakes?

80% of Soviet men born in 1923 didn't survive WWII;

Is there a similar statistic for European men born in 1896 for WWI?

The Fourth Lateran Council of 1215 decreed that a Catholic Christian should take confession and communion once a year. Does this mean, as a medieval Christian, you really only "had" to attend Mass once a year?

Did cloaks or other clothing in East Asia previous to Westernization ever have hoods? Trying to design a historically accurate character situated in medieval Korea for a project, can't figure out if having a hood is an anachronism. A cursory Google search doesn't help at all.

I remember reading somewhere about a period in the Middle Ages where several Russian cities were abandoned peacefully and each rebuilt a short distance away, for reasons unclear. But I can't find anything about it now. Does anyone see what I'm talking of? And ideally has a source for reading up on it? Or did I just dream it all?

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World War 1

Was Italy promised more land than it received after the end of the war?

Was Italy right to be unhappy about how much land it was given after WW1?

What were the arguments on either side for the territories that Italy got?

Thank you!

Does anyone have any book recommendations for an entry-level, readable introduction to the Risorgimento? I checked the reading list and there doesn't seem to be anything, unless I'm blind.

I've asked this elsewhere but I figured I'd try my luck here as well.

I've also been looking for a book on the French Revolution. I've enjoyed Mike Duncan's podcast on it and I'd like to relive it once more but now in book form. Problem is, I just don't know which book is the best for that. Combine that with me seeing a lot of talk about different interpretations, biases and so forth, and I'm kind of at a loss.

This leads me to a simple question: what is a good book that explains the context, and gives a good narrative of the revolution?

Hey everyone. This is a pretty random, although kind of fun, question. In a book I'm reading, 1948 by Benny Morris, about the war between Israel and Egypt, Jordan, etc. I came across a puzzling sentence:'But most of the Egyptians fled into the desert. The many shoes scattered by the roadsides testified to crumbling Egyptian companies and platoons that had turned into human dust,' wrote one Eighth Brigade chronicler."In short, I'm trying to figure out what it means. Why would fleeing soldiers leave their shoes behind? Is there something about desert warfare in the 1940s that would make this necessary? Is it possibly a cultural signaling of surrender? Were they afraid to be recognized as deserters?Also, I dont think it is just a weird poetic quote as the citation (Vered, FIghters for the Freedom of Israel 3:374) adds "The sight of endless abandoned shoes in the sands of Sinai was to characterize the Israeli victories in the selfsame battlefields in 1956 and 1967."Anyway, I just thought it could be helpful to pose the question to you all.

In the 11th century europe how colourful were knights?

I understand there was not any heraldry at the time. However did they still adorn themselves as colourfully as later middle ages knights did.

How did people dealt with humidity in medieval times? Specially in humid zones with a lot of wood an fabric inside?

I seem to remember there being a question about Alexander's encounter with very primitive people during his campaign in India. These people seemed to have no concept of clothing and lived purely off of fish. Can someone help me find some information about this?

Did the West had a counterpart for Cyrus the Great during Antiquity?

I was reading about the Palatinate Zwëibrucken territory in the HRE, and it appears that for a while it was ruled by the king of Sweden. Would this make this territory effectively part of Sweden? Or would this just make the king of Sweden an elector of the HRE? Would this have any consequences to the peasants living in this area (like, would they fight for the Swedish army, follow the same religion as the Swedish king, etc)?

When Alaska and Hawaii were admitted to the union,

1. Was the House immediately reapportioned to keep 435 members distributed among the new states,

2. Were there temporarily more than 435 voting members of the House,

3. or did the new states have to wait until the next reapportionment (1960) to send representarives to congress?

Is there a good book on the history of American Progressive politics? I was surprised to learn that the Progressive Party of the 1910s was kind of an offshoot of the Republican Party. Interested to see where a lot of what we know as Progressive policy positions originated and which parties took up those positions throughout American history

I'm wondering how historians feel about the use of genetic data in historic times. Is that an appropriate question for the sub or no?

Approx. early 1800s, United Kingdom: What was the name for a "_____ of the courts" - a helper position issued as punishment for crimes?

I'm doing some family history research, and apparently one of our ancestors worked off a punishment in this role. At the end of his sentence, he was given the option to be granted land, but chose instead to ask for immigration to Australia.
Googling hasn't helped unfortunately, but if I know what the name of the role is I can more effectively search for them.

Hello, does anyone have any book recommendations so I can learn more about the Minoans?

I've been fascinated by them for a while, at first by their art and then as I read more online I found out they had complex plumbing systems and the like. So now I'd like to do a bit of a deep dive into their life and culture.

When did people start calling New York "The City that Never Sleeps"? And is there a history of that term in other contexts?

What time period in London did architecture look like this?

I remember reading a while ago that there were people who had given names that were full phrases related to the bible. I'm struggling to recall specific examples of people as well as the movement (think it was 19th century) that led to this. Google isn't helping either. Can anyone drop a quick wiki link if you know about what I'm trying to find? Thanks!

Having now just seen it for the first time, how common is it to refer to the history of Japan since 1868 as "Tokyo Era/東京時代" ? It fits with the other nomenclatures based on the capital but I had seen it before now so I got curious.

During the civil war did both armies try to use local soldiers to eliminate the other sides terrain advantage?

What's the reason the Chivalric Code didn't develop in more places? It seems odd in the first place, so there must be a specific reason why it appeared in one place (Samurai code is a bit reminiscent as an exception). Wouldn't it make more sense to kill a rival king on the road for example instead of letting him escape and risk dying in battle?

My hypothesis is that the requirement is a governed non-tribal political landscape, so there would always be one person responsible.

Are there any historical paintings of 'traditional' conquerors à la "The School of Athens"?

As the question says, I'm just looking for any paintings which group together your typical historical 'conquerors' or military/political geniuses; your Caesars, Trajans, Khans, Napoleons, etc., etc., in the same vein as Raphael's School of Athens?

Do we know exactly how many livestock were murdered in the holodomor famine compared to the ones who just simply died fue to lack of fodder?

Genuine question, i am not here to prove if stalin was a good guy, Is just that i haven't been able to find any concrete stat.

Thanks

With memorial day coming up, I was thinking: we know how delicate and emotional a military funeral is in the US, especially if the fallen soldier had children that they left behind. Was/is this the case in other countries? Specifically in WWII what would the event have been like in Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union?

I have been unsuccessful in searching for an older political cartoon that uses the “concentric” circle” illusion. I believe it was depicting the concept of of indecision, as the wheels appear to spin both ways. Any clues?concentric circle illusion

I was looking for the lists of the greatest empires in history and almost every list looks at them in terms of land size exclusively which makes sense but what I would like to know if there is a different list that would look at the size of land controlled relative to the discovered world at the time ? (Hopefully I am making sense)

Would someone in the Dutch Republic, in particular from the province of Zeeland, refer to the lands south of the Republic as part of the Spanish Empire, Hapsburg lands, or Flanders?

Did some peoples in history refused to accept independence and just "outsourced" governance to someone else or is it so absurd it could never happen?

How expensive was rice in the 1850's southern USA, and how much did the cost depend upon slave prices?

This is perhaps too vague and not so simple but: At the end of WW2 was there ever a slimmer of hope or maybe advocacy for peaceful coexistence between WAllies and USSR in the years to come? Or did both sides assume by default that the conflict is inevitable? (Especially given Churchill's and Stalin's personalities)

Did the Sumerian Kings really live for 18,000 years and above?

What is the most play of words we are aware of?

How far are movies true when they depict Commanders and chiefs leading the charge from the front in battles? Would it not make more sense for such key-players to stay back and guide their armies instead? Any real life examples of commanders/generals attempting such?

Does anyone know the specific type of headphones used at the nuremberg trials? Were they developed by IBM (as the similtaneous translation system was) specifically for the trial, or simply WW2 headsets used with the machine.

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Question: Before the wolf bounty system was ceased in 1972, was it legal to hunt wolves at night in Ontario?

Additional context: I understand that in the modern day, wolf hunting is not permitted at night in Canada. However, I am writing a novel set in the 1920s where a character living in Northwestern Ontario (a fictional location north of Port Arthur/Thunder Baby) goes out wolf hunting at dusk which continues into the night. As wolf bounties were encouraged at this time to cull the species and wolves could thus be hunted all year, and in the modern day raccoon hunting is permitted at night in Ontario, would it have been legal to hunt them at night during this time as well? Or would this scene have to take place during the day? The character tends to be irresponsible and insist on doing things his own way so it's also possible he would go out hunting at night, legality be damned, but if this is the case I at least want to reference that he is breaking the law as I want to keep everything as accurate as I can. The novel is a horror story and I feel the nighttime setting would add to the eeriness of the scene, so I am reluctant to move it to the day just to be on the safe side.