Why does the US and Canada use mm/dd/yyyy and much of the rest of the world use did/mm/yyyy? How did this difference come to be?

1. I noticed a lot of Napoleonic uniforms have leopard print (officer's shabracks, the wraparound on dragoon helmets, etc). Where are they getting all this leopard print? I have seen a handful of sources also mention there's fake leopard. What was the faux leopard industry at the time?
2. I've noticed a handful of guys with earrings and what was the social acceptability of guys with earrings during the French Revolution and Napoleonic Era?

I guess this probably a meta question, but is anyone here familiar with the Canadian graduate history scene and willing to field a few questions? I’m trying to make what is sort of a life defining decision and would love some input.

Would we take the [depictions of the Persian Immortals](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immortals_(Achaemenid_Empire)#/media/File:Persian_warriors_from_Berlin_Museum.jpg) (or rather, royal guards) in Susa as stylized or faithful renderings? Would people really go into battle carrying bows and big old spears? Where'd they put their spears while they were shooting their bows?

What's the difference between a gang, like the Bloods or Crips, and a mob, like the Italian mafia?

What was so appealing to Europeans about tea? Did they not have any flavored drinks at the time?

Has there ever been a battle where one side showed and up and thought "nah" and then went home?

What group of POWS did Dr. Achmad Nawir of the Dutch East Indies treat during World War II? He was the captain of the Dutch East Indies football team and led the first Asian team to the World Cup in France in 1938, where they lost to Hungary.

There is a brief mention in one Indonesian newspaper article and one Twitter post of him treating POWs during WWII but no other information that I can find. He died in 1995. Was he treating Dutch/British/American/other western POWs? Or was he treating Dutch civilians in the civilian camps? Where was he doing this - in Java? Any suggestions where to look for more information?

Whenever someone says Middle Ages I think “knights, castles, medieval times” and I picture it in Europe. But what was up in the americas at that time? Was it still hunter/gatherer nomad types or were there settled places?

Any books or documentaries focusing on middle age americas, or even settlement (not just the USA. All countries, how they got their shapes. First cities etc).

What came first, salsa or bruschetta?

In what text is the death of Minamoto Yoshitsune and Benkei originally related?

I've been searching for a pre-modern description of their last stand at Komoro River, but cannot find it. I thought it would be in the Tale of Heike, but it isn't. Could someone knowledgeable please direct me to a source text?

How common were Chinese and African people in 10th century England?

Currently looking for a home on the east coast, VA. In my search I’m encountering a lot of late 1800s homes that don’t seem to have originally included a kitchen. Many homes feature what is essentially an attached, enclosed porch that houses the kitchen. This wasn’t that long ago—I understand that the adoption and installation of both indoor plumbing and electricity was also occurring. But not a permanent indoor room for the cooking stove and ice box? Help me understand.

What is the oldest holiday in the world? I saw a PragerU post on this, and the choices were New Years, Halloween, or Passover. Naturally, I was skeptical, so I came here. I am unsure if this is a simple question, but I got contradictory info online so I sought help!

Did Hitler's paintings rise in value during his rise to power or was his art career kept under wraps or did it just not have an impact on their value at all?

Were there periods of history where conspiracy, lies and propaganda made a significant difference, or allowed to seize power or greatly influence historical events?

It seems that the internet can easily amplify misinformation, but there also were times when most people were much less educated. Doesn't that mean it was easier to use misinformation for political power?

Have there been any declared wars since ww2?

Did people protest with signs with slogans written on them before the camera was invented? If you photograph a protesting crowd with signs you can see what they’re protesting for, but before cameras you’d have to be there - in which case you’d be able to hear what they’re chanting.

Why did alcoholism become a major social issue in the mid to late 19th Century? Did urbanization and industrialization increase drinking, or did the alcohol become stronger?

Who's the youngest child of a Greco-Roman deity?

Obviously the Greco-Roman deities aren't real, but I know that several historical figures have claimed descent from the gods, I think most famously Alexander the Great as the son of Zeus. I'm sure after Christianity took Europe by storm it became a little more heretical to say that God was your father, so my question is really about the remnants of Greco-Roman religion and how long it actually lasted within positions of authority.

The most recent example I can find is the Merovingian dynasty's founder Merovech, who was conceived by Neptune in the form of a quinotaur, in the year 410. Do we have any later examples?

Who would check upcoming books for classified material? Was it done under the Official Secrets/Espionage/etc Acts?

[Nsfw] Was marital rape considered a crime in Ancient Rome?

To what degree was asymmetrical warfare likely in the American South post-Civil War had the conditions been less favorable to the losers? Are there contemporaneous accounts in other places in the world or is the idea of insurgency/guerrilla warfare a modern invention?

I posted this in the last SAtSQ, but it wasn't answered, just downvoted for some reason. It's something I've thought about on and off over the years, and feels really important to me, sort of in the "philosophy of history" realm, so maybe downvotes are from it not being a SQ that admits a SA (however, recommending reading is a fairly simple question/answer situation.) But here it is again anyhow:

it would take at minimum 24 hours for some peasant in 1234 to accurately recount his particular Monday. And there are many such peasants in his town, county, region, world.

There is clearly no time to go through all this. And we can extrapolate to "important people" also. Some Charlemagne Monday (great band name), one of his Tuesdays, ... All lost to subjugating history to our time limits in recounting it. As well as needing to reduce cognitive overhead by summarizing in broad arcs. And that's assuming that he's particularly more important than the N number of people existing on that same Monday, Tuesday, ...

So history is necessarily a fiction. (I don't mean this as a bad thing, simply that it is the real situation.)

I understand this to be a topic in "historiography."

What do you have to say about this, and what do you recommend reading?

Where is Alexander the Great's tomb?

When a city falls to an enemy, my impression is that the men are killed and women and children are enslaved. I understand the "use" of women but what purpose did enslaving the children have?

Why were late 17th century cannon (sakers, culverins, etc) so long and heavy relative to the weight of shot they threw? I was recently at the NC maritime museum, where cannon recovered from the wreck of the Queen Anne's Revenge (or replicas thereof) were on display. These were massive pieces relative to their small caliber; a 6-pounder saker there was almost nine feet long and weighed close to 5,000 pounds, heavier than some 32-pounders from the Napoleonic era!

What primary sources do we have that discuss the diseases, and their effect on the population, that were introduced to the new world during the late 15th and early 16th century?

Women's Suffrage. Alice Dumbar-Nelson.

What did her contemporaries think of her? Honestly, I am mostly struggling to find sources on what her they thought of her. She was obviously respected, as she obtained high postings within the organizations she participated in during the women's suffrage movement and received an award posthumously.

Are there examples of historical policing forces specific to drug enforcement before the advent of the American DEA?

Were Christians actively persecuted under Nero's rule?

Or were the ones that were deemed responsible for the fire of Rome the only case we know about for certain?

What sources are worth reading for this subject?

Any book/video/podcast reccomendations for Roman history?

I am not so knowledgeable. First grade highschooler.

By the way, are these boks suitable for a newbie?

Adrian Goldsworth - Augustus

Phillip Freeman - Iulius Caesar

Mary Beard - SPQR

Patrick N. Hunt - Hannibal

Anthony Everett - Cicero

Historia Augusta - Emperors of Rome 1-2

Edward Gibbon - the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1-8(planning on reading this last)

Is it true that the Mongols are the main catalyst that ended the Islamic Golden Age? And given that the Mongolian empire and successors states rapidly fractured and culturally assimilated into their conquered lands, what stopped the Islamic world (specifically Baghdad) from recovering as a powerhouse of science, mathematics and philosophy?

When did the USA stop using the term mongoloid and replaced it? I see references as recently to 1905 banning mongoloids from attending school in San Francisco.

Is Elizabeth II the only British monarch who ascended outside of Great Britain?

Did Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt invent the rectal thermometer or was the medical thermometer he invented used differently?

Is Alec Nove's An Economic History of the USSR still considered a good text? The 3rd edition was released in 1993, which gives it the chance to cover all of Soviet history, but is still fairly close to the dissolution. Are their any more recent texts that cover this territory in a similarly concise manner?

Of all the enslaved people who attempted to run North towards freedom , what percentage would have made it to a free state before being caught or re-captured? To escape the plantation would have been extremely difficult. What were the chances of success, roughly? Also, what primary source material or other material could I consult to do more personal research on this question? Thanks all!

Often in cartoons and whatnot whenever there's a scene set in a medieval-style dungeon there'll often be a guy hanging on the wall by chains shackled to his wrists. Was this a thing that ever actually happened in medieval jails, or is it entirely made up?

In general, was clearing out bandits and brigands a job for local nobility or the king, who tried to enforce the laws outside of cities?

What was the point of the Anfal genocide?

I've recently become really interested in the recent history of the subcontinent. This is a tough topic to delve into, because it is highly politicized nowadays, and different political factions have their own versions of the history. I am wondering if anyone can recommend me some good and detailed books on the period of 1920s-1940s until Partition. I am especially interested in the Independence movement, as well as the culture and lifestyles of urban professionals at that time in cities like Bombay, Lahore, Delhi.

A broad question, but I am looking for academically respected sources/literature to inform myself of modern US (and to some extent global) politics/history. So far I am planning on reading A Theory of Justin by John Rawls and Freedom From the Market by Konczal. What other essentials are along these lines that are accessible to layman, but not too “dumbed down.”

How did the turkish residents of the Ottoman Empire react/feel about it's dissolvement?

What was the world reserve currency before the USD? Why did countries begin to adopt the USD as a reserve currency?

Were there any instances of isolated medieval aged technology level villages or such in the 1800s+?

I hope I’m not breaking the 10page rules. Can someone please tell me what those could be location was found northern Iraq about a month ago https://www.reddit.com/user/ScottsdaleUnited1/comments/tcinuv/not_mine_but_a_friend_of_mine_who_lives_in/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

What was life like as an immigrant to Hong Kong in the 1950s? What was the wealth distribution/class structure of the place at that time?

My understanding is that there was a large influx of immigrants in part due to the Cultural Revolution occurring in Mainland China.

What's the difference between a theocracy (e.g. the Papal states), and a state where the ruler is also the head of the state religion (England, Rome)?

So Franze Ferdinand was heir to the Austrian throne but he was a Ferdinand not a Habsburg? how does that work when I looked it up it said he was a Habsburg.

Does anyone have some examples of big Midwestern/Southern USA ranches around 1890s-1910s? Tried to look them up and kept getting just examples of ranch-style houses. I'm specifically trying to figure out where ranch hands lived on the farm and typical examples of what kind of work they did.

Not sure if this is the right sub since this is more about pedantics to settle a debate than actual history... but

In WW2, was the mission to shoot down Admiral Yamamoto an "assassination"?

The copts are the descendants of ancient egyptians, the jews of the hebrews, the lebanese of canaanite-phoenicians and the assyrians of, well, the assyrians. Which other examples of descendants of ancient civilizations exist?

I’m looking for more info on this civil war union battle flag and it has been surprisingly hard to come by. Does anyone have any info about this “Philadelphia” flag or civil war union flags in general? Thanks!

Did the United States ever uphold principles of liberty and natural rights in ways that actually sets it apart in the world? It is the oldest continuous republic, but U.S. history seems defined by constant struggle by nonwhite, nonmale, nonpropertied Americans to achieve those freedoms promised but never granted. The U.S. appears below the top 10 in every list I've seen ranking countries by political, economic, or human freedom. So, are there historical events or achievements that show that the U.S. is a bastion of freedom?

Was the US relatively unique in the use of shotguns in the military in the late 19th & early 20th centuries?

American police were armed with pump action shotguns and then the army found it extremely useful in its colonial wars in the Philippines.

And then it was probably the perfect trench gun of WWI but that lead to the official German complaint in sept 1918 (still can't tell if it was a serious complaint or an attempt to buy time)

So was the pump action shotgun a uniquely American military weapon?

Are there good comparative studies of the US occupation in post-war Germany and Japan? The denazification process, war criminal trials in Europe vs Asia, investigation, etc...

Also, are there good comparative studies on the european theater vs pacific theatre of WWII?

Thanks in advance.