While reading a news article on someone being extradited from overseas to face justice in the U.S. it started me thinking about the history of the extradition process. Wikipedia and The History Vault both mention extradition (also known as rendition) as being ancient concepts. Wikipedia dates it...

As far as I can tell, virtually no body persistently sings at work. Especially not as in a semi-formal group effort such as a barbershop quartet or a call-and -response sea shanty. I was taught in primary school that hard laborers in the olden days sang together to keep up moral. When and where ...

There is some tension between different parts fo the documentation here on Meta, the help docs, user comments and voting behaviour. One banner says: "We are looking for long answers", and additionally we look for sources, proper attribution and quotes – instead of plagiarism – and within context...

At the end of WW1 both Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman empire were broken up, but Germany was left intact, apart from some bits of territory given to Denmark, France and Poland. Why did this happen? if Bismark's nation building had been undo, things might have been very different.

Having recently read the biography of Alexander Hamilton, it occurred to me that there is a possibility that the requirement, written into the Constitution, that the President be a "natural born citizen" was inserted by Alexander Hamilton's enemies to prevent him from rising to the office as a he...

Image is a photo of an original tin type (photographic method introduced in 1856, in popular production until roughly 1867), hat appears to be U.S. Civil War - Union, "X" patch on right front breast region, single row of buttons, rectangular belt buckle, sword is straight-bladed, heavy "D" guar...

King Arthur, according to its literature, was a British leader. However, its influence in Brittany is huge. The Brocéliande, the mythical forest where Merlin was buried, is there, lots of family names in Brittany are originally from King's Arthur stories and etc. Why is that?

My question is about birthdays and if they were celebrated at all in the early 1700s in America? How did the average farming family celebrate birthdays? Or was it something that only the "higher class" celebrated? I've read many articles, but non that seemed to have a concrete definitive answer.

The wheel is said to have first developed in lands with plains and fertile grasslands. like Sumeria and Ukraine. If there were serious disease that were hard to eradicate up until the 18th century such as rinderpest why did people use wagons to plow fields and transport good along Asia and Europe...

Here and other places they have strange spacing as seen in the picture: Wondering what it means and what the purpose of it / if it's necessary or has some significance.