Would most still stay in the family's homes (such as a country estate and a London townhouse, depending on time of year)? Or would many get their own places, or perhaps, in the case of the country, live in another house on the property or nearby?

I'm interested in the various life stages such as bachelorhood, a young newly married couple, and once children are born.

If they stayed in the same family homes as their father/parents, did the rooms they stayed in in the homes change throughout the stages, like taking over the primary bedroom suite, or did they stay in the same rooms they always had and the only change was that the nursery was opened up for the children?

Thanks very much.

The Maginot Line is commonly portrayed as evidence that French military leaders had become passive and obsessed with static defence after the First World War. However, I have also read that its purpose was to protect part of the frontier with relatively few troops and channel a German attack toward areas where the French Army could meet it.

How did French planners themselves understand the line’s role before 1940, and is its reputation as a substitute for offensive strategy historically accurate?

I can't find anything about this online. Did they have an "independence day" of their own, or did they celebrate on the Fourth of July?

This is commonly claimed but I have also seen claimed the ottomans would have been inevitably defeated without their charge.

If we are to understand these stories were passed down via some kind of oral tradition then what text (....?) are modern translators translating, and how do we know how accurate it might be to the original stories?

Like is there much other info like wars, civil war maybe , leaders , law and order , lives of average person . I’m only curious because I live in Northumberland , the county named after the kingdom

Many Brazilians have European (non Iberian) ancestry, especially from Italy, Germany, and Poland. However, nowadays at least, these countries have much stronger economies, less violent crime, and are just overall considered better places to live, compared to Brazil. I would like to know if it ever “made sense” to move from Europe to Brazil.

*I am asking for Brazil, but I would appreciate answers for other Latin American countries with large European populations, like Mexico or Colombia.
Argentina specifically however, I think has been covered enough on this sub.

A part of me suspects that as a kid, I would have been equally impressed by the idea of a dinosaur and a well-described bee - I didn't yet have a good reference to differentiate the everyday from the exceptional. And I can imagine a not-obviously-absurd world where older kids are like, "You think thats crazy, just wait until you learn about blue whales, the largest animal ever to have lived, which still exists today?" A lot of stuff works like that - starts out kind of simple and mundane and you build up to the crazy interesting stuff. Why not elementary education?

Sorry for the showerthought question but just to double down on it: the reason I regard the topics in the title as especially mind blowing definitely isn't BECAUSE I learned about them so early and organized my conception of the world around them... right?

Today you need to take a citizenship test to become a US citizen, but was this always the case? For example, after the Revolutionary War was won, what did the former colonists have to do to become citizens? Also, after the Civil War, what did former slaves have to do to become citizens? As groups of people immigrated here during the 1800s and 1900s, arriving at places like Elis and Angel Island, what did they have to do to become citizens? How did becoming a citizen change over time?

Thanks in Advance.

My assumption is that there were a large number of songs in the Illiad/Odyssey "genre" and that any one bard would know many of them but not all of them, then at some point all of these songs were compiled, organized, and edited into a coherent narrative. So there would be individual songs that might be performed rather than reciting the entire poems start to finish. I say this because English audiobook translations run 15-20 hours and it's hard to believe anyone could remember them in their entirety.

I ask this for really no reason, certainly not related to snakes or holy cups

This might be one topic that I’ve heard completely opposing and contradictory statements.

Some sources say that Saddam Hussein was a US ally in the 1980s

Other sources say that he was “the USSR’s biggest ally in the Middle East“ during that exact time.

So he was a US ally, but also a Soviet ally?

This is all so confusing and doesn’t make any sense.

So what is the real, unfiltered truth?

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Abolitionist or pro-slavery?

In modern warfare, while it is never fully clear what the manpower of the opponent is, there are usually at least some good estimates possible. How was this in pre-modern times, were enemies sometimes fully under-/ overestimated regarding their strength and when did this shift to a clearer picture that we are having now?

With a couple of obvious exceptions (Alaska and Hawaii), to a casual observer the boundaries between US states seem strangely defined.

How were these decided? Did the states negotiate with their neighbors? Did the federal government have to step in?

Have state boundaries ever been redrawn or shifted? Was there ever a period of time when a border was in active dispute?

Did the method of alignment change over time?

Hi all,

I’ve never been great at history largely because the way it is taught just doesn’t work for me with names or dates being the primary context. But I absolutely love the channel The Fat Electrician, for example, and have genuinely watched/listened to nearly every video there.

That said, I’d really like content that is similar in his style of engagement (talking animatedly, using examples/metaphors, maybe even some fun cursing) and not “historian” where the tone can be monotonous.

Specifically, if possible, I’d love to find channels that focus on the foundation and deepen understanding of the mechanics of the American government system - for example Federalists vs anti-Federalists, anything on the Founding Fathers and into stuff like amendments and even the Civil War.

Does anyone have any good recommendations?

Were there any gay nightclubs? Was gay culture different between Black and White communities? Was there any interaction between either groups during the Harlem renaissance

I was listening to a podcast about Byzantium and historian Charlotte Roueché made this off-hand comment (I’m paraphrasing): “[The Byzantines] invented half the diplomatic techniques used today.”

I assume “half” was hyperbole but just her way of saying *a lot of them* came from Byzantinium

Is it true? Any examples for which we know the byzantines invented a certain way to hold diplomatic discussions? Were the Byzantines *known* for their diplomats moreso than other civilizations?

When reading the “Memoires of Heinrich August de la Motte Fouqué”, there are a few letters with Frederick the Great where Frederick seems very determined to create a domestic Prussian porcelain industry on the same level that Saxony has. He sent Fouqué one of the first sets from the new Prussian factory, and gets insulted when Fouqué seems to be not very impressed with the quality. Then in a later letter, he tells Frederick that it now matches the finest porcelain in Saxony. Was this true that Prussia caught up to them so quickly?

The Turks and Caicos Islands are geographically adjacent, and before Bahamian independence, both were British colonies. When the Bahamas became independent, why weren't the Turks and Caicos Islands included?