Timeline for context: 9 August, 1945: atomic bomb on Nagasaki. 15 August: the Japanese announced their acceptance of the unconditional surrender (Potsdam Proclamation). 21-23 August: the Japanese surrender to the Chinese in the city of Zhijiang (芷江) in Hunan province (湖南省), China. There's vide...

It seems to me that the romans contributed very little to philosophy and math in comparison with the ancient Greeks

If my understanding is correct, feudal land distribution in other countries created such social order which provided monarchs, dukes and other high-rank lords with substantial pool of relatively wealthy low-rank local nobility ("knights") primarily from countryside, who fought as heavy cavalry. ...

Let's say you're a recent business owner and member of the middle-class in the Victorian era. You've just risen to your new status as the class emerged during the Industrial Revolution. You didn't go to school, you never leant to read or write, but you now have to conduct business. You're in Man...

If I wanted to write a scholarly paper on, say, Native America wars, would I be able to cite oral traditions as reliable sources of information? As a made-up example, "the war lasted exactly seventeen days, with 3,000 men on either side. The enemy had initiated the rebellion by capturing one of...

I am doing a project on paint pigments. An obvious part of the introduction is the origins of the various pigment names. I read in Wikipedia that: "During the Roman Empire, the term minium could refer either to the pigment made from ground cinnabar or to the less expensive red lead. The name ca...