Why is there a neighborhood in Seattle called Capitol Hill if Olympia has been the capital of Washington State since it was founded? Did Washington State used to have multiple capitals like Bolivia does?

I'm reading a pamphlet from 1943 from a Dutch diplomat hiding out in London about how The Netherlands should be rebuild after the war. Arguing for keeping the overseas colonies he cites 'the most influential English newspaper in their lead article on march 11 1942' (my translation of 'het meest gezaghebbende Engelse dagblad in zijn hoofdartikel van 11 maart 1942'), by which I assume he means The Times.

He quotes that daily paper's lead article (again, my translation from his translation):

'If ever a debt of honor laid on entire peoples, it is the one, in which the United Peoples and in particular Great Britain and the United States, oblige to make sure, that every square meter of land of Queen Wilhelmina around the globe will be returned to her rightful authority'

Now, this could just be made up or severely embellished, but that he gives an exact date makes me think he is pointing to something. Does anyone know what he might mean? Google is being really unhelpful searching for the date 11 march 1942 + "Queen Wilhelmina" is also giving me nothing.

When did Prussian Blue start to be used in Japanese woodblock prints? Hokusai's The Great Wave of Kanagawa is of course notable for its being designed around use of the pigment, but that's from the 1830s, and Prussian Blue had been around since 1706. Are there earlier cases of its use?

Hello, I'm interested in reading suggestions about prisons, penal colonies, and other forms of extreme punishment. Any culture, any pre-modern time period.

This is research for a fantasy novel, so I'm looking for more conceptual secondary sources that deal with the logistics or geopolitics of large prisons. There's a tendency for fiction to fall short of historical reality, or be based on a simplified view of the past. I'm looking for general reading to strengthen my overall understanding and uncover my "unknown unknowns" on this topic.

One of the most useful books I've found so far was The Fatal Shore (Robert Hughes). I appreciated how it covered so many aspect of Australia's founding, from the political reasoning to different prison models. I also enjoyed The Gulag Archipelago (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn) - it was a bit diffuse for me, but had lots of great details about the daily inhumanity of such prisons. I've done some reading on the history of Newgate Prison, though nothing there has quite struck the balance I'm looking for. I'm also drawing inspiration from the Five Punishments and Ten Abominations, but that's more based on background cultural understanding, not any scholarly sources yet.

This is partially pleasure reading too, so I'm happy for any book on the topic that's interesting. ^-^ Thanks in advance for any suggestions offered!

What happened to all the firearms, cannon, warships, etc of the Confederate States after the war had ended? What about for the Union army?

I know that the French made ironclad CSS Stonewall was sold to Japan soon after the war but the Tredegar ironworks made 1100 cannon alone, with all the other CS factories making about the same, not to mention all the ones imported during the war. All that equipment had to go somewhere.

Examples of Notable Historical Figures with Disabilities?

How did the roman republic decide to go to war? Did the consul have power to do it alone? did citizens vote? did the senate decide?

Hey everyone. I have been listening (audible) to warlord chronicles by Bernard Cornwell. Yes a fiction on Arthur pendragon.

I know BC is pretty good about wrapping in abscure or long forgotten historical elements in his story.

I am trying to find the spelling for what the black shield Irish were called. While listening, they settled on demetea. The king at the time, not sure if historically accurate, is aengus (no idea if I spelled it right).

Please assist. I am using this info to put a back story behind see tabletop wargaming miniatures to have fun with the dark ages and wrap in a book with history.

Any help would be much appreciated.

An army of 5,000-10,000 men marches across mostly flat cold land. They are all of foot except for several hundred men who are on horseback. They are trained and have pretty good armour, but it's not the best. They have enough food (However much that may be) in wagons which are pulled along by horses. They don't want to kill the horses but they are trying to go fast.

How far could they get in 1 day?

I’m watching the Roman Empire documentary on Netflix, and it mentions that Tiberius wanted his brother (and heir) Germanicus killed so that his own son could inherit the throne.

How did succession work in the Roman Empire? Why didn’t it just go to his son automatically, but instead to his brother?

I just learned of the Immigration Act of 1903 which banned anarchists, beggars, sex traffickers and people with epilepsy from the US. However I've been unable to find any info on why they banned people with epilepsy. I also know about Ugly Laws and that epilepsy was at some points considered to be demonic possession or a spiritual issue. Is this related to the ban? If not, why were they banned?

I remember hearing a story on the History of Rome podcast about some Roman general who led his troops into the desert. I guess they were like losing and starving but then rain came and they took it as an omen and things turned out ok? I want to say it was during the Empire… it may have even been mentioned in I, Claudius… Possibly a prophecy attached to it.

I could be misremembering it, but I’m trying to put the pieces of Rome’s history together in my head and those stories help. I was reading about Crassus dying and it reminded me of that story. Does anyone know what I’m talking about?

Did Cybersyn have a legacy? If not, why?

Project Cybersyn was an ambitious and fascinating (to me, at least) attempt at a computerized control of Chile's economy. While the project had a rocky result and ultimately ended due to Pinochet's dictatorship, it seems an idea that was also overlooked by countries with command economies. Was there any legacy tied to the concepts of Cybersyn in the Soviet bloc? Was it an idea too far ahead of its time (or perhaps never feasible at all)?

What is the best resource for finding historical information that isn’t readily available online or in a library?

For context, I am doing a personal project on the life of a slave by the name of Rose Gatliff after I found a book written by historian Arnold J. Taylor on her. Unfortunately I’ve been unable to find any other sources on her from searching google, and I’m not even sure where to start at my local library. I know what county she was from, but not sure where or who I would talk to in order to obtain more information about her. What kind of resources would be available to someone who is not a historian or other academic with credentials (I’m just a college student), but just wants to do their own research?

What did asian people wear in summer where it was hot and humid? Especially soldiers and farmers, I would assume nobles reclined in cool palaces whilst garbed in silk.

In your typical frontier fort in the Old West, how many people would it take to normally man one during times of peace? Would it be just a few people to keep everything maintained or would you have full regiments stationed there as a home base?

I stumbled on this comment during the English fans shitshow around the final game of the Euro.

How true is this statement and do you have any book recommendations I can read more about it ? Thank you !

Why did the european change the name of many scholars to latin one like ibn sina into avesian and ibn Ross to aveross and why were they the only one to do these practises and were they any underhanded motives behind this

What was the GDP per capita of British Empire as a whole after 1905 before WW1? I only have GDP per capita for Britain instead of the whole empire with India, Asian and African colonies.

From what I can tell, German East Africa was Germany's most successful colony while Southwest Africa wasn't great, but SWA received far more German settlers, still only a few thousand though.

Why did settlers go to the poorer Colony?

In the War of the Third Coalition, was war ever declared between Russia and France? The 1805 Treaty of St. Petersburg seems to have been an offensive alliance and did not itself contain a declaration. There was no treaty between France and Russia after Pressburg and according to this, Russia declared war on France on 28 Nov 1806.

Ideally I'd like to find a resource with a list of all the declarations of war and peace treaties for the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, even just for the major powers, but the information doesn't seem to be collected anywhere, or at least not comprehensively. Any clues would be most welcome.

Can anyone help identify who this broken bust is of?

Are there any quality periodicals or magazines on the middle ages?

I've only seen the Medieval Warfare magazine a few times already, but that's not really what I'm interested in - that is, I would read an article or two about military history every month, but not a whole magazine on the subject.
Any suggestions? Any language is fine :)

How did medieval people hold up trousers if their belt was on top of their shirt?

Also, after people switched to hose, were their groins bare underneath the tunic?

I noticed how intermingled King Henry's wive's lives were. Catalina was Catherine Parr's godmother, Anne Boleyn was Catherine Howard's cousin (and I think they were both Jane Howard's distant cousins as well), Catherine Parr married Jane Howard's brother...

Was this unusual or was such intertwining commonplace amongst royalty? I always heard "most royalty were related back then" but I didn't take it so literally.

Were there more British settlers than Spanish ones in the Americas?

Is there a go to layman book on the progress from society from stone age, bronze age and iron age? I guess what I am looking for is something that covers what we know about societies at that time, what powers were around, how they ran and how they transitioned to the next age. Bonus points on anything that takes a look at the languages as well as I love languages.

Were there any explorers who weren’t colonizers?

What WW2 battle had the most countries involved?

Just a singular battle, could be groups, countries, what one had the most involved?

How are congressional districts numbered? (For example, NY-02 and NY-03 basically swapped numbers with negligible boundary changes during 2013 redistricting. Why not retain their previous designations?)

A small Christian group under Nazism in Germany, the Rhön Bruderhof, was subjected to a raid in October 1936, looking for foreign currency to check whether they were observing laws on foreign currency (Emmy Barth, Embassy Besiged (Cascade, 2010), p.264). Does anyone know the names of any of the laws that would have applied so I can look them up?