History

But before actually burying the dead person? - Go to church, have the service, drive past a pub - drinks and food - with the corpse on the back of a cart, then on to the cemetery for burial. Was this done in Scotland in 1800? Based on a sighting of one stopped outside a pub around that date.

Best answer: The Jewish community in japan has always been very small. the first Jews to arrive in Japan were Spanish and Portuguese traders who had converted to Christianity (to save themselves from the Inquisition). A few of them settled in Japan and reverted back to Judaism. By1586 there were about 130 Jews known to be living in the Settsu community. Most Japanese Jews are the descendants of this original community. the number of Jews in Japan never numbered more than a few hundred prior to the end of World War II. The number of Jewish residents increased considerably after the war, including American servicemen and their families, as well as businessmen and other visitors. Today the number of Jews (citizens and foreign residents) in japan is estimated to number no more than 2000.

Best answer: Egypt had figured it out in the BCE era and Cleopatra gave the secret of Time to Julius Caesar as Rome was measuring time using the moon(which was not working out correctly and this mattered as to when to plant crops)
Egypt used the sun and figured out a year was 365 1/4 days each year. They had been measuring this for thousands of years . They also broke it up into 4 seasons...and 12 months and 24 hours in a day to set their sun dial by.
Sun dials were used for much of that time...until the invention of water clocks and later sand clocks.
Those digging out the Egyptian tombs would burn a piece of rope which is tied in knots and when a stretch of rope burn to the next knot. That was the end of the work shift. It burned for 6 or 8 hours. in the pitch dark this worked.

Best answer: The Northern states had the manufacturing industry and could build more military equipment. The North also were the first of the 2 to have rifling inside the barrels of their rifles which made them much more accurate. Before that, one side would stand up and walk towards the enemy and only a few soldiers were hit by enemy fire as the old muskets were not accurate past about 50 yards and then at 50 yards would run at the enemy and fight. When rifling was used in rifles the guns became accurate much longer distances and as the southerners walked towards the enemy they were being accurately picked off to the point virtually no southern troops could reach the enemy.
Another thing was the North could deploy warships outside Southern ports and prevent exports of cotton and other southern products, cutting the South off from money from their exports to pay for their military whereas the North exported freely so their economy stayed strong.

Best answer: Americans are too stupid now. We can't even have fire crackers or bottle rockets! Not that any of y'all will take enough time looking up from your phones to do anything anyway.....

Best answer: A number of things to counteract optical illusions. There are hardly any straight lines.

Entasis. (A swelling of the columns to avoid them looking like they tapered in the middle)
Curvature of the stylobate (stop the floor/base looking like it sags in the middle)
Curvature of the entablature (matching the doming of the stylobate)
Variation in size and spacing of columns (so that they look regular and identical)

Worth remembering that this is really a wooden architecture made out of a more durable material, but one with different properties. The point being they knew what they wanted a temple to look like, regardless of any structural logic.

Best answer: There's a nice wiki on the topic:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Re...

Pay attention to the background causes section.

The flippant answer is because the US actually prefers it this way even if they'd never say so aloud. However, please notice that every time Iran makes democratic reforms from within the US stirs up trouble causing the Iranians to close ranks against the foreign enemy and that means that the government reconsolidates its grip. It's convenient for the US to have a scapegoat always to hand in the region. They were also used as an example for what happens if a nation took control of its own oil reserves to the detriment of the west.

For the first half of the C20th Iran was making huge leaps toward becoming a modern, democratic state. They were more left alone to get on with it than most near eastern countries until they nationalised the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. That lead to the democratically elected government being overthrown by the US and the UK and the Shah installed as an autocratic ruler. It didn't go well for the people of Iran and so he was overthrown.

There were a lot of factions involved in the overthrowal and I get the impression that a lot of people hadn't expected the hardline Islamists to come out on top and when they did, they didn't expect them to be as hardline for as long as they were. On the other hand, Iran is a much more liberal place now than it was in the years immediately after the revolution and they do have real democracy at some governmental levels. If the US didn't keep stirring the pot they'd have gotten rid of the clerical control of the country years ago. They've come close several times. The thing to remember about Iran is that the people are Persians first and Muslims second (and not all of them are muslims either).

Best answer: The Real Macbeth: A Documentary. Macbeth was a real person and his life was very different from the one portrayed by Shakespeare. He was well-liked, happily married, legitimately crowned and he killed Duncan on the battlefield, not murdered while the king was sleeping. This was a few centuries before Mary, Queen of Scots' time, though.

Best answer: All cities are legitimate targets in total war.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki were chosen because they had largely escaped the fire bombing which had been inflicted on other cities, so the effect of the bombs would be more obvious.

They were among a list of likely targets. They were unlucky because they had the best weather conditions for targeting on the day.

Best answer: Theresienstadt was a show camp to deceive.

But the Nazis had been quite open about the harsh conditions in camps from 1933, they wanted the public to know partly to encourage Jews to leave Germany.

Best answer: I would have to mow my own lawn.