In the Regency era was there severe punishment for breaking the rules of etiquette or were you just disgraced. I'm thinking about young lady's etiquette and minor rules.

These days, the use of the Heimlich Maneuver to deal with choking is so well-known that one might be surprised to learn that it was not invented until the 1970s, so this seemingly simple treatment is as much a product of the modern age as the home computer! How did people deal with choking witho...

I know that travel wasn't very common, but I'm wondering how much it would cost for a well-off traveler to arrange passage on a sailing ship. I'm looking for a price circa 1300, assuming the ship is already headed in the desired direction (carrying other cargo). The journey would be short (coupl...

Was European immigration to North America affected by the American Revolution? Did it decrease around that time? Are there reliable stats from that period? I'm basically interested in two numbers for each year: total migration from Europe and the percentage of that going to North America.

Wikipedia says: The most recent Akkadian version (c. 1200 BC), also referred to as the standard version, consisting of twelve tablets, was edited by Sin-liqe-unninni[9] and was found in the Library of Ashurbanipal in Nineveh But it appears that the tablets on which the epic was written date...

Before 1982 the federated kingdom north of the 48 contiguous states of the U.S.A. was "the Dominion of Canada". Did some other word replace "Dominion" after patriation?