Essentially, what the question says - did the war cause Americans to become better at war than the Euroasian powers (Germany, France, England, Russia, Japan, whatever, I am just making up a list) at the time? Or was there little progress made in weapons, overall technology, and tactics during th...

In the medieval/renaissance era what is the title of a person who runs a city in his king's kingdom? Like he isn't the king but he serves him by running the city. I think they could be called a chancellor, but I'm not sure.

The surviving books of Tacitus' Annals end off midway through the year AD 66 (during Nero's principate). Had the rest of the work survived, would the Annals have ended in June 68 (Nero's death) or December 68 (six months into Galba's reign)? Bearing in mind that Tacitus explicitly states that hi...

Generals de Division Morand, Friant, and Gudin were at times referred to as "The Immortals", as noted in the thesis Marshal Louis N. Davout and the Art of Command by Major John M. Keefe (1994)(pp36, my emphasis) Davout's command consisted of the divisions of the three "immortals", Gudin, Fria...

Why did the Soviets hide the Nazi Auschwitz records, which included death certificates for each registered prisoner that died in the camp, revealing them only after glasnost in 1990? The records are described here .. http://auschwitz.org/en/museum/about-the-available-data/death-records/sterbebu...

When plastics were invented they must have known that they were not biodegradable. So who's bright idea was it to create disposable products made of plastic? Was it the inventor of the plastic bag? Who would you say is most responsible in history?

Are there any church hymns that would be in use in the early (16th to early 18th centuries) Anglican church, and would be distinctly Anglican? (In the kind of way in which Ein Feste Burg is distinctly Lutheran). I imagine they did use other Protestant hymns like the aforementioned Ein Feste Burg...