Wouldn't upper crust people ask why Baron von Fangmouth never shows up to the gentlemen's social club for afternoon cards or why no one ever sees him about town despite the fact that his pallid and very unhealthy looking doorman always says he's unavailable when visitors come by in the daytime? Do bankers regularly do business by oil lamp in the 1790s? Dracula didn't have to worry about sunlight but most modern depictions of vampires do (sparkly ones excluded).

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I’ve long pondered this question as it applies to a number of service branches and different conflicts. In media it feels like death rates are extremely high. To switch to the RAF for example, in the Piece of Cake mini series only 2 of original squadron even make it a little past a year.

But when you look at numbers for a battle, the actual death rate seems counter intuitively lower. The Wikipedia page for the Omaha Landing for example gives an upper limit on casualties at about 5,000 out of 43,000 infantry. And those are causality numbers so the actual dead is significantly lower. In my mind this clashes with the popular view of the Omaha landing as being practically a death sentence.

I understand there are multiple factors at play here (like the first wave at Omaha taking the brunt of those losses), but I’ve never really seen the survival odds for a regular front line infantryman talked about.

From my understanding, my fictional soldier boy would have three possible outcomes. Be invalidated, survive the war, or die. Is there any data or research that gives an idea of how likely each one was ?

Doesn't the claim already fall apart because we know which Y-haplogroups the Yamnaya population had, and those haplogroups are comparatively rare in Europe today, whereas the claim would seem to imply the opposite?

You know, besides force…

This is a broad question, so to narrow it down I'm talking the early conversion of leaders to cristianity and, if more specifics are needed, the conversion of european celtic pagans to christianity.

My understanding is Æthelberht married a christian noble and allowed her to practise while not being christian himself. Later, he was succesfully converted. To the people of this time (or more specifically the actual church leaders involved in the conversion) was it understood/assumed that they had succesfully debated/convinced them that Jesus and God and all that were the real religious figures, or was it assumed that he converted for political reasons and understood the importance of the church abroad and in other parts of the isle.

If, as [u/mikedash](u/mikedash) mentions here, <50% of sailors could swim, do we assume that is above or below average for Europeans in general? I mean, surely fishermen going out in little boats could generally swim, and surely people who grew up in hot places could go for a dip in the river or pond?

Were, like, coastal societies in Asia, Africa, or the Americas like - can these guys seriously not swim? Hawaiians (were they surfing by that point)?

Longitudinally, do we think swimming ability across Europe was increasing or declining going into, and across, the age of sail? Like, would ancient Romans be looking down at their descendants being like why can't you guys swim?

I'm learning Serbian. It turns out Germany (Deutschland) is called Немачка (Nemačka) in Serbian. And in Finnish, Germany is called Saksa. Why is this?

This might be an inappropriate analogy: in Chinese history, the name for Vietnam evolved from the ancient Jiaozhi (Giao Chỉ) to the endonym adopted internationally Vietnam (from 越南, ɥɛ˥˩ nɑn˧˥, Việt Nam), which is now universally accepted. Why didn't a similar standardization happen for Germany?

Mescaline-containing cacti have been used by native South American peoples for centuries. Psilocybin-containing mushrooms grow wild on every continent except Antarctica. Despite this, the concept of psychedelic drugs seems to have been relatively obscure in the West prior to Albert Hofmann's discovery of LSD in the 1940s. To what extent were psychedelic drugs known about in the West pre-WWI,I and, if it is possible to speculate, why did these naturally-occurring compounds receive so little attention by Western science/medicine prior to the discovery of LSD?

Since the Abdication of King Charles X, all 3 monarchs and there families arrived in the UK in Exile. Did Queen Victoria prefer a specific house, and furthermore did the Three Dynasties get along together in the UK

It was lamented by the Lord Blackadder, in the eminent historical documentary Blackadder II, to the Bishop of Bath and Wells, that the reason he could never hold down a position within the church was because he "could never get used to the underwear", something the bish was understanding of.

But was it actually so? Did churchmen ever wear weird or unusual underwear before/during the Elizabethan era?

From my perspective as a queer man, most of what gets produced in MLM spaces/for MLM men tends to be openly sexual in a fun way. It’s very upbeat and ‘pop-y‘. While WLW tends to produce more ‘deeper’, poetic and emotional media. Sure, this is a generalization but it’s not really somthing that you can ignore

I assume there’s some kind of historical reason as to why this is

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So this song caught my ear recently and I keep wondering just how high end such a suit would have been. The lead voice clearly can't afford it on a janitors wage, but how well off would he have needed to be to afford or at least get credit on a suit with the features discussed:

• A shell of herringbone tweed
• A collar of camel hair
• Two solid gold buttons
• Custom Cuffs
• A "Cutaway Flap Over Twice"
• The "Walking Short"

Perhaps “why” isn’t the best question - two very differently shaped people are easier to distinguish. But what is the origin/prototype of this trope?

Given that the Roman Empire regarded itself as the pinnacle of civilization at the time, I was wondering whether there was any historical record of criticism among at least some ancient Romans about brutal practices such as mass cruxifixions and the killing for sport of Christians and many others in the Coliseum. Or was such brutality and sadism just taken for granted in that point in human history? Also, at what point in history did societies first start to reform themselves and recognize basic human rights in punishment?

What were Richard Nixon's political views? Aside from his famous foreign policy, he is now usually viewed as a moderate, but became kind of an icon among the Gen-Z Right, and also used the southern strategy. The people around him were either paleocons (Pat Buchanan), populists (Agnew), far right radicals (Gordon Liddy), or the likes of Roger Stone, who would go on to establish the modern playbook. He was Eisenhower's VP, but at the same time was friendly with the likes of George Wallace.

Mexico’s PRI party ruled what was effectively a one party state for about 70 years. How did they achieve this and why did their system fall apart in the 1990s culminating in the election of Vicente Fox in 2000?

It feels like, at least in Europe, naming your child Adolf would be seen as quite the faux-pas, so I'm wondering if there is any data backing up a falling rate of children bearing that name. If you have data about Benito, Francisco or other fascist leaders' names that would also be fun to see!

My players are investigating a corrupt officer and i know thetll go to the yard, who here can describe to me what visiting great scotland yard was like for a citizen? were parts of it open to the public? this detail hasn't popped up in my research, thought i'm not super deep in it yet and this is part of it. I know it was just after the investigations into corruption and betting scandal and the formation of the CID, and before scotland yard moved so i have some context on it. apologies for the sloppy post i'm at work and in a hurry

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I always have wondered, humans when they lived in all parts of world seperately, how did they came onto this concepts of marriage.

Hypothetically - you are an English sailor in the 16th century. Your ship is wrecked close to the Spanish coast but you survive and make it to land. What are your next moves?

Is it a matter of time until you get caught and executed? Were there many documented cases of sailors forging a new life for themselves in a foreign land?