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Responses to more common hazards weren't addressed to nearly the same degree, if at all. Off the top of my head: pressure and elevation to control bleeding; Heimlich maneuver if choking; don't swim out to a drowning person, throw them something instead; lightning position; don't…
As I understand it, the Māori were originally a people from across the sea who sailed to New Zealand, an uninhabited island at the time, and then began settling it. They formed a bond with the land when it was empty, and, as such, are correctly and universally considered the ind…
A 12-20 mile march in the infantry is exhausting. The idea of completing that and then immediately building a fort sounds super human. Did the legions do this every time, or was it more of an official doctrine that was not necessarily followed every campaign?
Wouldn't upper crust people ask why Baron von Fangmouth never shows up to the gentlemen's social club for afternoon cards or why no one ever sees him about town despite the fact that his pallid and very unhealthy looking doorman always says he's unavailable when visitors come by…
What if the mental illnesses we have today are just the ones that managed to survive natural selection? Were there mental illnesses in ancient humans that didn't survive until today?
https://preview.redd.it/baz1088ym7dh1.jpg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=57bbbba6e20c0aecf5b32ab740fa09e7876ce23e I’m Tom Hiddleston and I am taking a journey back in time in my new series ‘Pompeii: Out of Time with Tom Hiddleston’ on National Geographic. The ancient world h…
Hi, so i just heard about how King Louis XIV’s wife(Maria Theresa of Spain) gave birth to a dark skinned baby in 1664 and then the court literally blamed it on her drinking too much hot chocolate(did she tell the king that she ate too much chocolate?) I know the baby allegedly d…
When I look at Bronze Age maps, I see states and civilizations around the major rivers, not far from those areas the map appears completely empty. How should this be interpreted? Does it mean there simply weren’t many humans overall, or were humans living everywhere but not in t…
In short my question is, how different were the cultures and languages of northern regions of Ireland and Scotland vs Scandinavia between 870 and 930? Would a dane be able to converse with someone from North Ireland and be understood? or where the languages completely seperate?…
Help me settle a debate about the potential lethality of "tarring and feathering" in Colonial America. Because the science doesn't seem to match the records. I'm discussing (read: getting into an argument regarding) the "tarring and feathering" scene in the miniseries "John Adam…
Every month in gardening subs someone posts wanting advice on growing their own food to reduce grocery bills, and everyone responds with pessimism, saying it's not practical for a beginner to grow a substantial amount of food on the average suburban lot, and that it's not a chea…
Hi all – my name is Matt King. I am an associate professor of history at the University of South Florida, and my latest book is A History of Goblins, which was published by Palgrave Macmillan this May. It considers the history of these fascinating creatures (and their many deriv…
Who actually coined the term 'Space'? I find it weird to think that there was a time when people looked at the sky and would call it something other than space. I assume that in different cultures it was called different things, but when did it become more universally known as '…
A line from Pink Floyd's Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 2 has a school teacher saying "If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding. How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?" What were meals like in an English boarding school like such that students had…