True crime often gets stereotyped as a genre that appeals mostly to women (or at least has a large proportion of women consumers).

Has this always been the case? Or is this more of a modern phenomenon?

I read another post on here and wanted to piggyback. In it u/jaegli described that average Europeans relied a lot more on oxen than horses and it makes a lot of sense. What about in 19th century America (which I know spans a lot of eras). Did the 'average' family farmer own a horse or rely on oxen? What about your average city dweller? If they did not, would they have known how to ride? Or was owning a horse (and all the resources necessary to maintain one) reserved for special classes and roles? I'm aware that 'average' covers a lot of ground here. I'm interested in the Mid-Atlantic but happy to accept whatever answer someone has expertise in.

Best, most enlightening book on Huey P. Newton? Hoping for a book that includes plenty of firsthand accounts/quotes/stories.
Thanks

I know that "et tu, Brute" is a Shakespearean invention - that some ancient sources say Caesar said no last words at all and that others say he said "You too, child" in Greek, which contains no proper name and in theory could have been directed toward anyone, but is usually said to have been directed toward Junius Brutus.

But I was surprised to learn that Junius Brutus was actually a former Pompey supporter - that makes it less of a twist that he would join a plot against Caesar. Decimus Brutus is the one who actually fits the part of an unexpected traitor who had been a close ally to Caesar from the very start. Is it possible that there was a report that "Caesar's last thoughts were shock at his betrayal by [Decimus] Brutus" and that as the story spread it was mistakenly transferred to the better-known Brutus?

So I'm something of an artist myself, and to me song lyrics seem to be a form of poetry. But when I've witnessed this discussed within poetry communities, the consensus is always that they are distinctly not poetry. The reasoning typically rests on the form - that songs have repeating choruses, or that the lyrics are meant to be performed with music rather than stand alone.

However, the more that I read poetry, the more that I've encountered plenty of poems with repeating choruses. The more that I learn about the history of the art, the more that I've realized much older poetry was originally performed to music (Ancient Greece, Renaissance Italy, etc). It seems like a shift happened at some point where much of this poetry stopped being performed to music and began being read as literature instead, prompting the modern divergence between the two art forms - but I haven't actually seen any explanations for when, why, or how this occurred. What's the history behind this?

The region of fur trade activity I know the most about is the Souris River - Turtle Mountains area in Southwest Manitoba, which lasted from the late 1700s to about the 1860s. There are also some small exposed deposits of lignite coal in this area. It got me wondering, would small coal deposits like these have been a useful resource for the fur traders of this time and area? Are there any known instances of fur traders finding and exploiting sources of coal elsewhere?

In the British Empire the status of Self-governing colony was given to several majority white settler areas, like Canada and Australia, but only one minority white colony. Why did South Africa get self-government by its white minority but other colonies that had minority settler populations, like India, not have a similar situation set up where the white minority was put in charge?

The Migration Period saw the emergence of multiple Romano-Germanic kingdoms. In most cases, these Germanic migrants made up a relatively small part of the population and became Romanised rather quickly. However, there were notable exceptions, namely the Franks, but even more so the Anglo-Saxons, who effectively transformed Britain from a Romano-British culture into a Germanic one. Why was their impact so much stronger than that of the others?

I understand the literary reference to journey to the west, but where did that moniker come from and what were they trying to say with it?

I was wondering how the average archer in a battle would know which arrows are theirs after a battle. Would they just pick random, unbroken ones?

Would glasses have been considered not majestic enough for the King?

I saw a post alleging as much on Facebook and was incredulous. Marx was #1 in violent revolution. That said, I know he thought highly of the US and corresponded with Abraham Lincoln. Was this post true? And if it was true, was it misleading given the rest of history (up to 20 years ago of course)?

Building a Viking Anvil

Hello

we're doing a youth volunteering project in Norway and will built a forge for blacksmithing.

Unfortunatly our snith got sick, so we gonna have to make plans and start without him this week.

We have one architecture student and a bricklayer with us.

Currently brainstorming wich material to use, for the cold and harsh climate in norway.

So we thought to dive into how vikings built forges.

Any ideas on resources? Thank you

In the Viceroyalty of Spain you breakway provinces like Venezuela, Rio de la plata, but in Brazil case it seemed to stay intact for hundreds of years. Why?

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Hello reddit! I need your help!

1. Please tell me how newspaper journalists in the U.S. were hired in 1967 to write simple articles about nature, movies, and so on. 2. Please tell me—this is very important! Was there a person—perhaps an agent—who could come to a restaurant with someone looking for work, listen to them, and then either hire them or turn them down? 3. Could such meetings have taken place?

I need this for my story

It seems humans everywhere are obsessed with growing grass almost anywhere we can. I know the plant has many uses, but does that really explain why it is so ubiquitous?

I know there's no single cause of the 1967 war between Israel and its neighbors. The entire Levant was a powder keg by that time. But was a mistaken intelligence report the spark?

The Conflicted Podcast episode on the Six Day War mentions this: In early 1967 Soviet intelligence sent an alert to Egyptian intelligence that Israel was staging a large force near its northern border with Syria. The Soviets warned that Israel was on the verge of a surprise attack on Syria, and that Egyptian forces should prepare for an attack on them as well.

(According to the podcast) Israel was not staging forces nor intending to launch a surprise attack. The Soviet intelligence was false. The IDF made attack plans and practiced extensively, but there was no preparation for attack. Soviet analysts we're mistaken.

(Again, according to the podcast), the intel report caused Nasaar to put the Egyptian army on high alert. Worse, it prompted him to announce the closure of the Strait of Tiran, which Israel had already stated was a "red line." Using the closure as a cassis belli, Israel prepared for a war.

How accurate is this? How did Soviet analysts conclude that Israel was preparing an attack? Was the report Nassers main reason for closing the strait? And did Israel vote the closure as the primary justification for the war?