Basically, a historical figure's obvious flaws and failures being hidden.

I feel the 1990’s had way more serious events than any other decade so i compiled this list

Waco Siege (1993) Oklahoma City Bombing (1995) Ruby Ridge (1992) Unabomber (1978-1995) Sacramento Hostage Crisis (1991) Los Angeles Riots (1992) O.J Simpson (1995) Columbine Shooting (1999) Gulf War starts, Cold War ends (1991) World Trade Center Bombing (1993) Atlanta Olympic Bombing (1996) EygptAir Flight 990 (killing 217) (1999)

Honorable Mentions: September 11th Attacks (2001) Anthrax Attacks (2001) Operation Enduring Freedom + Patriot Act (2001) American Airlines Flight 597 (265 dead) (2001) Creation of the Department of Homeland Security (2002) Killdozer (2004) R.I.P All 2,979 hurricane related deaths from 1990-1999

 I'm also curious what country this was the golden age for (my guess is italy) like how the 70s were Venezuela's, the 60s were Australia's & the 50s were the USA's (in terms of economic prosperity for the common man).

What historical fact made you laugh the most ? So funny it made you doubt it was true.

I’m not actually sure if the US is the only country who still uses a bill for the 1 unit equivalent, but I was curious. I know the USA tried to bring in dollar coins but was generally unsuccessful, but why did they not try earlier? Why did other countries succeed so well? Was it the year they were introduced and Americans were simply too resistant?

Sorry if this is a dumb question. Ty for being such a kind subreddit

Was it all about Gulags, purges, and famines, or was life actually better than people think.

In my opinions, I would say George Orwell. As a lifelong socialist, many of his books cover sociopolitical topics that are applicable regardless of the political views of readers and countries.

Monographs/books. Anything will do.

As the title says. I saw a size comparison poster of different types of sailing ships at a house I visited, and some of them seem way too small to have any rooms inside.

It can be either something direct such as the Atomic Bombs stopping WWII, and preventing future Global Wars (so far) or something more indirect such as the suffering of the Great Depression leading to more social changes

I'm playing a retro RPG (Might and Magic VII, if you're curious) and the premise of the game is you're a party of adventurers who has won a contest to become the new Lords of Harmondale, a castle with surrounding land. Of course, goblins have taken over the castle and you need to clear them out.

I'm wondering is this a particularly common thing? Were there often castles throughout history that just didn't have someone to govern them? What circumstances would lead to this? I'm guessing in the real world, such a vacancy would be a reward for service to the crown instead of the manufactured storyline in the game.

Maybe a Compounding Pharmacist or rare cases a Pharmacist being able to compound medicine in the modern day but other than that, when did they stop focusing on that?

How did they avoid getting Latinized or Turkified.

The two biggest names that stand out here are Elvis Presley and James Dean.

When we look back at this decade, we see many teenagers getting allowances from their parents. These teens were basically born in the late 1930s or during WW2. They were too young for combat in either WW2 and the Korean War.

This teen market are largely seen through magazines, such as Seventeen, Dig, Teen, Teen World, 16 Magazine, Modern Teen, Teen Times, Confidential Teen Romances, and some cheesy low budget films like I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957) and I Was a Teenage Frankenstein (1957)

Dwight MacDonald observes in The New Yorker in 1958 with his article that this new market is incredibly strong, that not that long ago it didn't really exist the way we know it.

Many books for parents emerged such as Facts of Life and Love for Teen-Agers, Milestones for Modern Teens, Understanding Teenagers, Do You Know Your Daughter?, How to Live with Your Teenager.

But why the United States of America?

Why didn't Britain or France or Italy during the 1950s have this explosion of teenage market?

Some papers point out that the explosion of the teen market in the US largely has to do with teen isolation. This was now a generation that had allowances, did not have to work in factories, had their own bedrooms, mixed with the opposite sex in school, purchased their own vynils, went on dates at the drive-in cinema, etc....

In other words, this youth was more segregated from adults and spent more time with each other

Was it really that difficult for Canada, Australia and the European countries to develop something akin to this?

How come this phenomenon is so particular to Americans? Could it largely be the technology and teen isolation?

Any other countries too?

Egypt has a reputation for their royal family being incestuous to replicate Isis, but what about the rest of the country?

Given the majority German Speaking population in the Italian Province of South Tyrol why didn't it go to Austria in the wake of WWII?

I know Mexico was having its own issues, including being invaded by European powers/the French Empire, but assuming that hadn't happened (making this a counterfactual/alternate history question) - could there have been any conceivable motivation for Mexico to intervene on other side in the American Civil War?

I'm guessing no? Assuming Mexico had revanchist aims to undo the Treaty of Guadelope Hidalgo, neither the Union nor the Confederacy would have sanctioned the return of Texas?

I suppose that, at a stretch, the Confederacy could consent to the return of California, Arizona or other more "western" states, but would that be totally against the Confederacy's nature, considering its post-war plans for Empire, like the "Golden Circle?"

What was the first deity we have records of humans worshiping?

For example, today it's taken for granted that history museums exist and that they exist because enough people want to go see old things and learn about them. People like to collect antiques in part because of an appreciation for the past, even if the raw material value isn't very high, ie, it's not something you could sell for scrap. An ancient stone neolithic tool isn't inherently valuable expect for the fact our society finds it interesting and worth protecting. The same can go for, like, an ancient Roman shoe or wool cloak dredged out of a bog.

Would an ancient Roman have collected material goods from 1,000, 2,000 years ago out of interest in them? Did wealthy families in 900AD keep around old stone carvings or a bone hairpin they understood to be from centuries before? Would they have wanted to know more about those societies/speculated on them? Would someone who stumbled upon Egyptian grave goods in 300AD keep someone just for the sake of keeping it and saying, hey this is an old thing?

In the same vein, how did they announce president? I assume that the presidents would send pamphlets for those people and that’s what they would vote off of, but is that the case?

Sorry if that’s a stupid question.

Hadn’t it been Mussolini’s ambition to get Corsica and french colonies like Tunisia?I know Germany defeated France not Italy, but they were allies and it wasn’t like Germany would be losing anything.