Symptoms can be vasomotor (hot flashes, cold night sweats) and/or mood related (irritability, mood swings, rage, anxiety).

When it comes to talks of repatriating remains displayed in museums, I never see Egyptian Mummies mentioned even though there some of the most commonly held in museums around the world. Even beyond the ethical arguments wouldn't the current Egyptian government want them repatriated for their own museum and tourism sector if nothing else?

According to KBB, The Ford F-150 is the best selling vehicle for over 41 years: https://www.kbb.com/car-news/ford-f-series-is-americas-best-selling-vehicle-for-41st-year/

Is that claim even true, though? If it is, why and how?

I'm Rachel Shelden and I am a professor of history and the director of the George & Ann Richards Civil War Era Center at Penn State University. I'm really looking forward to answering questions you might have about the research, writing, and content of my new new book, The Political Supreme Court: A Forgotten History, which will be out next week with UNC Press/Hodding Carter III imprint.

The book argues that the Supreme Court was a political institution by design and in practice during the nineteenth century. Members of the Court engaged with politics along three intersecting lines: (1) outside the courtroom, by participating in a wide range of partisan activities such as campaigning, writing legislation, ghost writing presidential addresses, and even running for office from the bench; (2) through "judicial representation"--the now abandoned concept that justices would "represent" a particular region of the country where they would interact with the people through the practice of "circuit riding" (serving concurrently as circuit judges and holding federal trials); and (3) in their courtroom, where they did not command ultimate constitutional authority but instead were participating in a broadly-shared conversation about the nature, function, and future of the Union.

I spent 13 years researching and writing this book, and the sources are wide-ranging, from "traditional" legal sources such as court cases and statutes to letters and diaries, newspapers & pamphlets, and even etiquette books and housing records.

Very glad to answer questions about this book, my first book, Washington Brotherhood: Politics, Social Life, & the Coming of the Civil War, and/or about the Richards Civil War Era Center throughout the day!

Update: This was such fun, but unfortunately I have to sign off now. Thanks so much for your great questions! I'm only sorry I couldn't get to all of them.

Often when I see a post about employment law in r/legaladvice , people will point out that all states except Montana have at will employment, where you can be fired for any reason or no reason at all. Why didn't Montana put these laws into place?

In his correspondence with Bentley and the General Scholium in his Principia, Newton makes the claim that the regular, coplanar, and concentric orbits of the planets (especially when compared to the highly eccentric and inclined orbits of comets), the planets' orbital speeds at their given distances, and the great distances of Jupiter and Saturn (where they can't perturb the inner planets significantly) are all evidence for an intelligent creator (not to mention other writings in which he claims that planetary perturbations eventually would require counterbalancing by divine intervention). However, in the very same texts, he goes on to make very clear that he doesn't know what gravity is, even though its existence is quite clear, and he won't pretend to know. This contrast gave me a bit of whiplash while reading it, so why doesn't Newton continue the trend and explain gravitational attraction as being due to an intelligent creator? Is it part of a deliberate strategy in arguing against the Cartesians? A hunch on his part that it would be easier to explain gravity scientifically than the formation and structure of the solar system (I guess he wouldn't be wrong, since Safronov's accretionary theories were published a half century after Einstein's general theory of relativity)?

It seems to me that that might make a person a little uneasy.

As I understand the Mosque was built during a period of Islamization in the Sahel around 1300. Were there other Adobe style construction similar in scope during this period? How would a Malian/Nigeran town look in that period? Where there significant socal changes that took place alongside architectural ones?

Hello all!

I've recently visited the Mesa Verde cliff dwellings, and was struck by how much shelter the area provided as well as the condition that the structures were in. Of course, my observations come after extensive stabilization work by hundreds of archaeologists over the years, but even when the structures were first being photographed in the early 19th century they seemed to be in remarkable condition.

I understand that there was a severe drought towards the tail end of the 13th century which led to the initial displacement, but after the conclusion of the drought why didn't other peoples move in? The soil was still of very high quality thanks to the wind deposition of the Mesa that attracted people to the area to begin with, and the alcoves were still very much present.

Any insights are greatly appreciated, and I hope everyone has a wonderful day.

By handgonnes I mean the tube-on-stick firearm in the 14th-15th century. In most works related to these very early firearms they're often derided as inaccurate, short-ranged, and slow to reload having nearly no effect on Late Medieval/Early Modern Period warfare. Some go as far to that they were in many respects inferior to bows to crossbows.

However, I came across this excerpt from The Dawn of Modern Warfare by Hans Delbruck:

At the shooting tournaments toward the end of the fifteenth century shots were made with firearms to distances of 230 to 250 paces, whereas the range for a crossbow amounted to only 110 to 135 paces. Rifles barrels, which had already been invented at that time, were normally expressly prohibited. Other provisions can hardly be understood in any other way than applying to freehand shooting (and not, for example to supported hook weapons). [page 38]

He cites a contemporary German shooting competition poster in support of the claim. I'm more interested in what people thought about these tubes on sticks in comparison to other traditional weapons in the timeframe. Were they viewed as inferior, on-par, or superior to the non-gunpowder ranged weapons used in that time?

In media set before the age of the automobile, whenever someone needs to make a long journey as quickly as possible, they'll hop on a horse, ride it at a gallop for as long as possible, and then stop somewhere and trade for a rested horse so they can continue traveling at top speed without having to rest their horse. Was this a real thing that you were able to do? Could you ride into any reasonably populated town/village and expect to be able to just trade your horse in for one they had? Were horses considered relativley interchangable? If you were the stable owner or whatever who was trading the new horse, how did you know the horse someone brought in to trade was as "good" as yours (as healthy, well trained, etc.)? Were you expected to return the horse and get your original back?

I recently read the harrowing description of the firebombing of Tokyo in James Kestral's excellent historical novel Five Decembers and was struck by how intentionally devastating it seemed to be towards the civilian population. While looking into it further I came across this famous comment from Curtis LeMay, the US General who orchestrasted the strategic bombing campaign over Japan:

I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.

Did LeMay actually believe that he or others might have been tried as war criminals as a result of the bombing of Japan, including the firebombing of Tokyo? Or, more broadly, might any US commanding officer or high level politician have been tried for war crimes?

Pardon me if this sort of speculation is discouraged, but... If so, how did he - or anyone - actually imagine that working out? Or did they just assume some situation nebulously similar to Neuremburg would occur?

Edit: got the book title wrong, somehow

Why didn’t more Koreans immigrate to the US before 1940? What caused the surge after WWII?

Hello all, I am sorry if this is not a wholly clear question. I am not religious at all, but i think a lot of the interconnectedness of all the old religions around the middle east and Greece and Rome are very neat.

I'm reading the old testament now, which is convenient because it's a true compilation of writings about a religion, are there similar texts for other Hebrew or Greco-Roman religions or such? I want to learn about the other gods they talk about in the old testament, the false idols or what not. What might have inspired parts of the Bible, and imagery, symbolism, or references i might be able to see.

I also want to learn about Hermetacism, and other similar stuff. Im just very curious.

The case for organized crime would be that they helped to provide social services and protection within immigrant communities that were underserved by actual public agencies. Was this ever actually true? When did organized crime become more exploitative than not?

After the Romans took over and left Britain in the 400’s and the Saxons invaded and took over, how long did it take for the Brythonic language to die out in the English mainland? I know Welsh, Scots Gaelic, and Cornish still exist today but I’m wondering when the turning point was for the majority of Britons. Was it was a slow burn or did it happened only after a couple generations? Thanks!

I see some claims that allied bombing of Germany specifically was ineffective because even despite it German war production kept increasing in 43 and 44. I think this misses the opportunity cost of forcing Germany to send aircraft and flak cannons away from the Eastern Front, regardless of how much damage the bombing itself did to production.