Certain types of mosses were used to cover cuts and wounds (inc in WW1), which are anti bacterial and highly absorbent. I have no evidence that it was used for mensturation, but it would certainly have made sense.

It’s not a shell, apparently.

What made you think rags would be discarded after use?

It does affect my choice, not because amateurs cannot write good serious history- more that good qualifications can be considered as a guarantee that someone knows what they’re talking about. But there are plenty of other things one can look at for the same purpose- reviews by those with good credentials, history writing awards, etc.

As an example, I recently bought a book about the American Civil War- James Oakes’ ‘Freedom National’. This isn’t a topic I know well, and I didn’t recognise the name of the author nor the name of the university they work at. Their book is making a provocative argument. All that makes me quite wary- this book could be garbage! But when I look into it I find that this book was nominated for an award, and received good reviews from some of the biggest names in that field. That reassures me- even if I find that I disagree with the arguments made in the book, I have good reason to believe that it’s legitimate scholarship.

So generally I want to find some indication that an author knows what they’re talking about before buying or reading a book. But qualifications are only one of many possible indications.

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RW history.

If u correct them, they will say all of it is hidden and destroyed.

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Piece of clothes and they were washed by washerwomen, who could gossip on who was getting pregnant or not

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Never heard of this before. Very interesting. I guess this happens a lot now that I found out it's a "thing". And people being buried in walls? Man I've lived a sheltered life.

>Do you agree with the observation every fascistic regime is really an alliance between the titans of industry and the financial elite and politicians they support?

It depends on what you mean by 'alliance'. I don't think Nazi Germany, for instance, was really allies with German industrialists and financiers; certain industrialists and financiers were Nazis, but most of them just went with the prevailing wind, and the Nazis continued to allow them to exist as long as their business served the state.

>If so, how does it explain the traction it has among the lower classes?

Typically because a fascist regime will project the importance of the lower classes (in Nazi terms, the 'Volk'), and will often promise to address their problems ('full employment'), but this doesn't mean they necessarily gain a lot of traction with the lower classes, nor that they do anything about lower class problems, or if they do, that they then won't add a new raft of problems. The Nazis were never that popular among the working class. Nazism was a solidly middle class movement.

The argonauts wanted to read what she wrote about them :)

Really a super interesting article about an even more interesting human.

So I am preparing for the Turkish ministry of foreign affairs exam. im looking for books about European/middle eastern/US-Turkish relations and history.

also anything you'd reccomend that you consider to be essential? the exam is an interview.

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..and a bit hands(y) I hear. A real drag at dinner parties. /s

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"What was used in late medieval to early modern england for mensuration products?"

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

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I didn't think about it, but you're right! How very poetic.

I totally read “arrogant octopus” at first and I was like damn, I wonder what he did to deserve the title

It wasn’t really the rest of the world that started the One China Policy.

China demanded the OCP. Basically told the rest of the world there can be no diplomatic relations with any country that doesn’t accept China’s claim that Taiwan isn’t separate.