What is the origins of the vaguely fantasy, fairytale-ish name of "Evermore?"

Led Zeppelin had the song of "The Battle of Evermore." in the 70s.

Taylor Swift has the cottagecore like album "Evermore."

And you may have recently heard of a strange fantasy theme park in Utah called "Evermore Park" from a popular YouTube video.

That's what triggered this question.

Is there any difference between saying something was made out of Mud(like Mudbrick house) and terracotta?. Always saw the later as a way of saying the exact same thing but without the deguratory implications of "Mudbrick Hut". I remember getting into an argument sometime ago with someone I disagreed so let me ask the experts what it is.

So, many of you may be aware of this meme: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/honk-shoo-honk-mimimi
But my question is this, when did these become onamotapoiea for snoring? Especially the very distinctive 'honk-mimimimimi"?

What is a "German-Roman Year"?

I have a few art subs and have come across this calendar scientific booklet thing from the 1890s announcing the new year as a "German-Roman Year."

https://reddit.com/r/ImaginaryMaidens/comments/yoa451/germanroman_year_rhead_1890s/

More of a meta question, does anyone have suggestions for good works about the Anglo-Saxons and the greater world of the North Sea during the early medieval that aren’t written by sketchy people?

In a thread somewhere else, it was mentioned that our current numbering was started by the Romans in 525AD. That got me wondering, are there any cultures that number years differently that actually knew it was year 1 under their system? Or have they all started retroactively?

When talking about Ancient Greek's phalanx warfare, you often heard about the hoplites formation drifting towards the right. Is this something unique to Ancient Greek, or is it something common in a fight between two lines of infantry with shields?

What was English Language profanity like back during early modern times? Like if I were a peasant in 1680 who dropped a log of wood on my toe while carrying it, what non-polite word would I exclaim from the pain? Would it be “fuck!”, as it would often be in modern times, or something else?

A lot of heist movies feature characters who plan to make a big score and flee to a country with no extradition. Did anyone manage to pull this off in 20th century USA and live happily ever after (more or less?)

I don't have a specific number in mind for 'big,' but I'd say something like "of sufficient value for the participants to live comfortably for the rest of their natural lives."

In William of Rubruck's medieval travels to Asia, he describes a religious debate between Christians, Muslims, and Buddhists. The conclusion of the debate seems a little dubious, but there was no violence and even a level of respect. Would this kind of dialogue have been exceptional for that time?

The city of Nottingham was originally known as 'Snottingham' after a Saxon chieftain who ruled the area, and is recorded as such in the Domesday Book. Why was the S dropped?

Any good books and/or reads about ancient Mesopotamian agriculture, roughly from the neolithic to pre Akkadian empire?

Did Rumi really say "Gratitude is wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk."?

I have found lots of unsourced attributions but cannot find any source for the quote. Anyone familiar for where I might find one?

Thanks!

I’m looking to find out which president killed the most people? I know Grover Cleveland was a hangman for Buffalo, Ny when he was a sheriff there and during that time he killed two people. I tried googling it and it included wars and stuff I want to know which presidents actually murdered people.

Does anyone have court documents for Thomas Aikenhead, 1696 Edinburgh?

I was wondering if anyone has digital copies of the court proceedings or associated docs of the 1696 trial and 1697 execution of Thomas Aikenhead in Edinburgh. I'm not in Scotland and the national archives haven't digitized them. Thanks in advance!

This might deserve it’s own post, but did any higher-ups ever explain why the armistice was declared at 11:00 a.m.? Was it a sense of being “poetic,” practical (e.g. “it’ll take us x amount of time to notify everyone, and we might as well make it 11:00 so that it’s easier to remember”), both, something else, or just a coincidence that we ascribe more meaning to than the generals did?

European browsers ate hardtack. what did asian and middle eastern navigators eats?

Is there a historical term or concept about "over learning a past lesson"? For example, the Maginot Line in WWII, it feels like France overlearned the importance of trench warfare and static defenses.

I am not talking about this from purely warfare standpoint. I meant more general, aka over emphasizing past historical examples and precedents.

What was the mother tongue of Baldwin IV?

I would like to know the history behind every letter of the International Phonetic Alphabet: less how the current set of consonants/vowels/etc. came about, more how each glyph came about, and much more importantly why a glyph was chosen for a consonant/vowel/etc.

On Wikipedia I found the origins of some of the glyphs currently in the IPA, but not every such glyph has its own article let alone this info.

Via historical IPA charts, I could kinda piece together the evolution of the set of consonants/vowels/etc., as well as a timeline of when a certain glyph was adopted/dropped/re-assigned; but I got next to nothing in the way of why glyph foo was chosen for consonant/vowel/etc. bar. I see that there is a general guideline:

The non-roman letters of the International Phonetic Alphabet have been designed as far as possible to harmonize well with the roman letters. The Association does not recognize makeshift letters; It recognizes only letters which have been carefully cut so as to be in harmony with the other letters. (IPA 1949)

But I expected to trivially find the complete meeting minutes containing all the glyph decisions including the candidates, rationales offered, and debates during each. Perhaps I missed it and/or must pay money to access it.

To clarify, by “glyph” I mean a perceptually unique mark, but whenever applicable I also mean a unique code point in the dominant character encoding scheme, since it seems to me that a code point assignment happens whenever a variant perceptually unique mark is deemed perceptually unique in its own right.

For example, where does the glyph ⟨ʌ⟩ (U+028C, LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED V) even come from (does it even have anything to do with the Latin letter V?) and why does the open-mid back unrounded vowel use that? Why does the voiceless bilabial fricative use the glyph ⟨ɸ⟩ (U+0278, LATIN SMALL LETTER PHI)? Why not ⟨φ⟩ (U+03C6, GREEK SMALL LETTER PHI), given its voiced counterpart uses regular ol’ ⟨β⟩ (U+03B2, GREEK SMALL LETTER BETA) instead of its own “LATIN SMALL LETTER BETA”? Stuff like these.

Many Thanks.

Does the U.S. Constitution guarantee “no taxation without representation”?

This may have been asked already as it's a fairly popupar topic, so I apologize if it has. My question is: why didn't english bowyers during the longbow era implement recurve designs? This question comes really from seeing tons of people (not historians mind you) claiming the recurve designs, especially something like a Qing bow, are way more efficient than a self bow of the same draw length and weight.

What did the early Arab and Berber Muslims called North African Christians as a group?.

Why is Marshal Lannes burried in Pantheon in Paris while other Marshals are burried in Pere-Lachais cemetery?

Ancient Greece had a lot of cities, and they all seems to be wildly different in culture, society, language, etc. Is there any actual major common element between all/most of these cities apart from the fact that they're all one country today?

Looking for research on regime changes after wars. Something like this. However, the linked research has a narrower scope as it looks at violent regime changes, while i am interested in any kind. Thanks

P.S. I am trying to understand what is the probability of a regime change shortly after being involved in a war

How much was a yen worth in USD during WWII? I could only find answers on how much it was worth before and after the war.

I'm watching a video game that's irritatingly cagey about when it takes place. Can someone with history chops ID the approximate time period by the game's intro text?

"For more than fifteen decades, on holy ground of sand and stone, the straight blades of the swords of the West clashed with the curved blades of the lords of the East. The Crusaders had been chased from Jerusalem, the city which many place at the centre of the world, by the rebel Turks of the Khalif of Cairo, their former master. Decimated and abandoned, the Franks could no longer prevent the slow agony of their last remaining kingdoms."

What were the largest battles that occurred at night? Before and after the 17th century.

Is Irving Finkel's belief that "Noah's ark" was actually a kuphar based on a cuneiform that was found or is he taking an educated guess?

What events lead the ancient Greek religion to be not widely practiced in the modern era?

In the Peloponnesian war and the First Punic war, it is often simplified that Sparta and Rome control the land while Athens and Carthage control the sea. What are the flaws/problems with this statement?

Was there ever such rapid population growth in Great Britain so that the population of London would be larger than that of the whole island 100 years previously?

I've read this (1) article on the use of motorcycles in warfare; whenever motorcycles are used as weapon platforms at all, it is usually (if there is any degree of professionalism) by a two-man team, one driver, one gunner riding in a tandem arrangement, or even simply riding in the back, as used by the Iranian military (2). The gunner, in these cases, is simply using a man-portable weapon (while mounted or unmounted) and the vehicle is simply a means to mechanize the gunner, not as a weapon platform itself.

1. https://infomoto.com.au/features/the-motorcycles-of-war-military-bikes-built-for-battle/
2. https://suarakatak.blogspot.com/2014/11/iranian-military-motorcycles.html

It seems pretty sensible that the motorcycle as a platform could support an integrated weapon system, say an F&F ATGM, operated by the driver via an extension of the dashboard, obviating the need for a separate gunner.

Has anything like this ever been attempted? Has it made it it into any military? Has it shown up in any conflict?

How did Mesoamerican sacrificial culture treat making sacrifices of their priests? Were they off-limits? Extremely valued sacrifices?

hi guys, did people living on the coast ever get their salt from seawater? is there some historical evidence for coastal communities using sea water (to cook or drink) as their source of sodium?

Where can I find a list of/ source discussing democratic nations that embraced socialism or socialist aspects in it's economic system. Currently I have Iranian prior to 1953, Guatemalan prior to 1954, the Congo prior to 1960, Brazilian prior to 1964, Chile prior to 1973, the Mitterand/Jospin presidencies in France, and the dubious situation in Tunisia. I understand that this may be difficult due to the varying definitions of both democracy or socialism, but I keep finding new examples and I'm wondering if anyone made a comprehensive list.

Has there been any rebuttals/answers around the "Hebrews to Negroes" movie for the Black Israeli Movement? I thought I saw some but can't seem to find them. Specifically around the claim of Jews and the slave trade.

What are some high-paying / well-respected jobs from history that no longer exist?

How many slaves were there in American history? It seems like there should be a simple answer or at least a good estimate, but I’ve found wildly differing numbers

Who wrote ““The world found nothing sacred in the abstract nakedness of being human”?

When I search with Google, it suggests it that Hannah Arendt was the origin of this quote; however, I have a vague recollection of reading that she had been quoting Edmund Burke?

Would people from the past enjoy historical movies? Specially the ones more action oriented, like with superhuman characters and stuff (such as 300)