I can find sources that say things like "75% of plays were written by Jews" and "Of leading positions in industry there were two Jews for every non-Jew," but I'm not sure where to find sources for the jobs gentile Germans had. I was hoping you could answer this question. Is it mainly blue-collar ...

It was just reported that the USS Bonhomme Richard will be decommissioned, because repairing it would cost $3.2 billion USD. The replacement cost according to Wikipedia would be $4 billion, and they intend to salvage some parts instead. This made me wonder if this was "the most expensive arson i...

In lots of old Roman artifacts from statues to jewelry to even oil lamps. The phallus is often a prominent feature, from what i gather it was used as symbol of power and protection. However come Christianity and the phallus symbol is seemingly removed from the public. What was the reason for this...

As the title suggests, I am looking for a book or a paper, which contains lists with descriptions of churches and monasteries in Palestine, hopefully across all denominations (i.e. Armenian, Greek, Franciscan, Coptic, Syriac, Russian, Romanian, Ethiopian etc.). I have found it hard to obtain such...

Were there more, or less protests during influenza pandemic as we see them today?

While reading about the February 26 Incident I learnt that Kita Ikki knew of it and provided some support to the coup by phone. I then found a documentary about Asian 20th century history which contains a small portion of one of these calls, particularly one made by the rebels to Kita to inform h...

I remember reading a Robin Hood story as a child where the Sheriff of NoOttingham rode though Sherwood forest, as I remember foolishly going alone, and Robin Hood robbed him of 300 pounds. And I thought about the unfortunate horse that had to carry the Sherrif and his gear and also 300 pounds of...

The U.S. sure did a lot of time-consuming island hopping to get to Japan's mainland, but Russia is right next to Japan on the west. Setting up a front next to Japan in Russia would have been very difficult to impossible early in the war, and Russia absolutely did not want an eastern front while f...