This thing is the sort that requires an essay, but in brief:

1. For most of history, war was seasonal: as such, some, if not most soldiers will leave for the winter, and return when the war resumes; those who remain may not have the numbers to launch attacks. Even if the entire army is professional, so skipping planting won't cause starvation, feeding a large force in one place for long is extremely expensive without railroads (and that assumes there's food available at all,) so as much of the army as possible is likely to be dispersed to where they could be fed.

2. Even if the local weather isn't cold, logistics would still be subject to the polar lows, which can lead to sudden and powerful storms: as such, anyone relying on a supply fleet is taking a big risk, and anyone without such a fleet will have trouble sustaining much of a force.

3. The term "Winter Quarters" can also be misleading: while most of the army may not move, small bands of around 50 are very likely to be doing reconnocence and raiding. These raids rarely enter the history books, but they often contribute to depopulating an area, which affects the war.

4. For the most part, winter warfare became more common when steam engines made moving and feeding soldiers much easier. That didn't make it a better idea, though: the logistical issues created by winter still exist, and have still led to disaster when handled poorly.

What was Karl Marx like as a person?

He's not a historian, but it is very well researched. (There's a subreddit for the pod, by the way: r/BritishHistoryPod )

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Part of the problem is that a lot of recorded history focused on the "great men" the kings, the generals, etc. It's a relatively new (in the grand sense of things) movement to look actively at the more common people, the day to day grind.

But we can find you sources and material that can go further into these other areas. Is there a specific area, topic, hobby, something that you're really interested to learn more about? The further we expand our scope, the smaller we often need to make our overarching theme so specifics can help.

And, empirically speaking, the empire was successful.

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I’m listening to history of times and civilizations on YouTube now.

It’s mostly a list of kings and the wars between places, and a few other killings and the results of that.

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Important of course, but there’s so much more to think about when it comes to telling stories of history, right?

Maybe I could get some direction for more expanded accounts of history?

Well, that would explain the aerial chase footage. But what about the amature video? Was it just people that got their first cameras and were looking for any excuse to test it out?

The Hindenburg's company was planning to use the footage for advertising.

As you can probably guess, it didn't quite work out for them...

Twenty years ago, we started decoding the human genome. Nobody thought descent was linear in one "human" line or whatever it is you're trying to say. Try 50 years, maybe more? When Lucy was found, I think she was initially handled as the "missing link", but that notion quickly disappeared when other Australopithecene species were dug up and we were unsure which one of them was our direct ancestor.

Fossils are snapshots of a species at a certain point in time. If a species retains a relatively unchanged form over a long timespan, homo erectus coming to mind as an example, it means they were adequately adapted to the conditions they had to live in for a long time. Heavy physical mutation and speciation typically occur as a response to different selection pressures, aka a change in environment, isolation of a group, filling a different niche in the ecosystem, etc., although not exclusively so. Genetic drift obviously happens aswell.

If we find two specimen in the same layer, meaning from the same timeframe, but they look completely different, we are probably dealing with two different species. Now we have to figure out how far they're removed from their last common ancestor. DNA tests don't really do much here since DNA decays within millenia. No real use trying to get anything from bones that are hundreds of thousands of years old. Fossils aren't bones and they have pretty much no organic material left in them.

The entire human family tree is a work in progress, as with anything in science. As new information comes to light, it is updated. There are always different theories on how to classify species X vs Y and how they relate to one another and new discoveries can and do change the way we see things all the time. We can deduce certain estimates, for example how we are probably descended from homo habilis rather than a representative of the paranthropus group, simply because our bodies look more like the first. Researchers look at details in the skeletal structure such as facial/cranial features, bone density and proportions, joints, teeth, and a million others.

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Make sure they are actually dead first. Or they will bill you.

The republic's had lots of breaks - First Empire and restored monarchy in 1804-48, Second Empire in 1852-70, Vichy and occupation in 1940-44 - each drawing support from an anti-republican element that might have prevailed but for its internal divisions (Emperor? King? - and if the latter, which of various rival claimants?). Even amid the Revolution, monarchist candidates won most of the seats at stake in the legislative elections of 1795 and 1797. A large part of the population hoped if not for the Revolution's undoing, at least for its more orderly governance.

Reaction to Bonaparte's coup and subsequent elevation was thus muted: here perhaps was an end to the chaos of the 1790s, and even his assumption of the rank of Emperor was partly aimed at preventing a future Bourbon restoration by incorprorating the hereditary principle in favour of a new dynasty, securing one of the Revolution's acts by unconventional means. He could for a time be all things to all Frenchmen, or at least most - much like that motto, itself open to various interpretations and simultaneously satisfying radical sans-culotte and respectable bourgeois alike.

Another one here! I thought I was the only one.

Some local pagans were sincerely worried about early Christian claims of the resurrection.

>Was it possible to wage winter warfare in regions with milder climates such as Palestine, Carthage, or Sicily?

The issue is not just weather. You still see cold winters in places like Palestine, but there is also a dearth of food and fodder; many forces throughout history relied on foraging, stealing, buying, or otherwise obtaining food from local sources as they moved. There tends to be rather less of it in winter, which makes supply more difficult. Winter campaigning isn't impossible, but even with a real logistics system, it is more difficult, and there are often other administration issues with maintaining a force year-round. There was an expectation for many forces that, outside of a campaigning season, they would have time to go home, or otherwise find somewhere to become established and start to prepare for the next campaign. Transport, supply, maintenance, etc are all more difficult in winter, and you also have additional costs.

Winter campaigning was done inconsistently for a long time, from the Vikings, to mercenary companies in medieval Italy, to various Roman campaigns, but consistent winter fighting is very modern, and was still influencing plans (especially concerning agricultural workers) in the 20th century. It became less of an issue thanks to industrial and technological factors, so there isn't one point you can definitively identify as the year, but around the 19th century, certainly the latter half, is when armies began to campaign regardless (often with awful results).

They had to, they talked in Latin and continually raised dead accidentally.

Just bury em vertically, head-down. They won't trouble you again.

Why was the Hindenburg coming to New Jersey such a special event?

I'm not talking about the accident. I'm wondering why there were four people filming and at least one radio jockey covering the event in live time? Surely everyone had seen lighter than air craft by then, right?

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Are we sure it isn’t some kind of security system to keep thieves away? Akin to stepping on a Lego in the dark.

I’ve been there. It’s so cool!

One of my favourite tiny blink-and-you'll-miss spots like this is a completely unassuming building in eastern Chania in Crete, which is a Venetian storefront/apartment, built on top of a Classical foundation, with Minoan ruins in the deep basement that are on display to the street via glass and interpretive signage, that used to host a video game store and I think now is a smoke shop. It's just a fascinating layering of multiple millennia of history

Aldi always has some unexpected treasure. Did you guys see the $10 wind breaker? Stylish