I was recently playing some Ultimate General: Civil War, and I had a thought. When all the battles take place during the US Civil War, and farms / homes were caught up in the middle of them, who paid for the damages? Am I just out of luck that my home was in between the two sides and needed a cannonball based redecorating?

During WW2, the Germans made extensive use of the Czech-made Panzer 38(t) early in WW2, taken when Germany took over Czechoslovakia. But what about French - and to a lesser extent - British tanks, following the Battle of France? The French had large numbers of advanced tanks like the Char1B. The Germans must have captured many at Dunkirk or after France's surrender, but I haven't heard of the Wehrmacht ever using them. What happened to the thousands of French (and British tanks)?

Beyond obvious reputational and “repeat business” risk, have I offered this farmer a warranty on my products? Have I given him some indication that, if the implement breaks within the first planting season, I will repair it or replace it at no cost? Does the farmer have legal recourse through a local authority?

Further, what of product liability? Assume the ploughshare not only broke but injured the farmer so badly that he cannot farm anymore. As asked above, does he have recourse?

In general terms, my question goes to the history and evolution of warranties and product liability.

Originally posted this on r/askcommunists, but I realize now it is also a historical question. I wrote "(It might be about to get really obvious that I haven't read any theory beyond currently reading the communist manifesto). Communism seems to have two requirements that contradict each other (to some extent). In revolutionary Catalonia, Makhnovshchina, and other communist societies achieved through libertarian socialist/anarchist means, communism seems to have been achieved but has been defeated relatively quickly by armies. This shows the need for a strong, organized military. From my understanding though, the only times strong militaries have been formed in attempts to have communism were through vanguardist states (which from my understanding, have not achieved communism but state capitalism). Do the needs for a communist society (achieved without a vanguard) and for a strong military contradict each other?"

I am doing my research into voting in the American midterm elections and I am going down my ballot one by one. In addition to the races like govenor, senator, and representative which I feel like I understand, I am also voting for probate judges, auditor of state, treasurer of state, and county auditor. I have to look up what those positions do, and I consider myself pretty well informed. It seems odd to me.

Is is the reason these are elected positions as a safeguard against cronyism and corruption? When and how did it start, and what were things like before?

I feel I understand how the U.S. Republican Party was taken over by the 'Religious Right'. However, I’m at a loss for what happens next and what the historical precedent is.

What got me thinking about this was Kansas. It's Dr. Roger Marshall (R) versus Rev. Adam Hamilton (D) for the U.S. Senate. Hamilton is endorsed by two former Kansas Republican governors, Bill Graves and Mike Hayden. They've actually organized a 'Republicans for Hamilton Coalition' that includes quite a few notable Kansas Republicans.

I'd previously assumed any motivated moderates in a party that's been taken over by not-moderates would join the other party, make their own party, or lose motivation very quickly. But evidently not.

Kansas is a weird state for politics, but it and Texas have me wanting to know what to expect. Has this happened before?

(I have read What's the Matter with Kansas? by Thomas Frank, and wouldn't mind more reading recommendations. I'm trying to know more about how politics got this way.)

So the name England means 'Land of the angles' angles is a Germanic tribe and it's therefore a Anglo-Saxon name William was a Norman after he defeated the Anglo-Saxons in the battle of Hastings at 1066 why did he keep the name considering England is a Anglo-Saxon name and the same group whom fought against him?

Looking at pictures from soldiers back then practically nobody was clean shaven, perhaps 1/100, and this is including from shortly before the war as well so it's unlikely to be due to wartime necessity.

Our alphabet, numerical system, calendar system, mathematics, agriculture, religion etc. all come from the ancient middle east.

Is it even right to say there was one? I guess I'm trying to figure out how, if at all, the hebrewpeople became a distinct group in canaan, if this is being phrased properly, and if it isn't please tell me!

Thanks!

Terms such as "allegro" and "crescendo" in music seem comparable to "filet" and "sauté" in cooking. Did Italians systematize music in the same way French people systematized food?

So this is a pretty broad question, so I'm going to try and narrow its scope to a degree.

Modern day black markets primarily operate (unsurprisingly) with modern industrial goods. Stuff like drugs (nobody in the 1400s knew how to make meth), guns (same goes for AKs), counterfeit goods (i'm not 100% sure how old trademark law is, so maybe), counterfeit money (i expect this is pretty old), etc.

So, if I'm a shady guy with some money to burn living in Medieval France, or Poland or Italy, what kinds of items would I even find in back-alleys and less than legal markets?

What kind of items would've been on medieval black markets? Not drugs, probably not weapons, so what?

What kind of medieval black markets existed? How did these markets differ from today, and perhaps a more interesting question: how did industrialization change illegal markets and organized crime?

(I know we’ve had some dissent about the formatting, but this is not for book research)

I am a 30-something year old man doing my medical rounds to requalify as a doctor in a new country after moving to the East Midlands of England as a DP.

I have a prescription pad, a pharmacy that will fill orders, and a hernia, and I cannot afford to take time off of work to deal with it or go to another doctor and draw attention to my condition.

How am I self-treating? What am I prescribing myself so I can continue to work even through the pain?

Hi, I am here because I am planning a fantasy novel set in the Victorian era. So, I really want to know how to describe the daily life of several groups in the 1880s and 1890s. This main character would be a boy whose family income is about 1000 GBP to 1500 GBP. He and his family lived in southern England near Exeter. How can I describe his and his family's daily life when he was 8 years old? What profession would his dad have? What food would be on the dining table? Any detail would be welcome.

My knowledge on Churchill is very low, it gets thrown around how great of man he was for Britain during WW2.

My question is: what did he do to help Britain that someone else wouldn’t have done in his position as Prime Minster at the time?

Hey, super specific and also vague question. What did medieval/renaissance Europeans who practiced christianity (I'm curious about how different countries and places in Europe in general, that's why it's kinda) view witches? Even more specifically, what did they think would happen if a witch were to walk into a church? Like did they think that witches would burst into flames or something?

I’ve been learning about the French Revolution and I’m wondering while the people were, for instance, storming Versailles to ask for bread, what their children were doing? Were they participants?

I'm sure we can get bogged down into the definition of propaganda and what is or isn't. I'm sure we can count depictions of Ancient Egyptian kings as a form of propaganda. But what are some of the earliest forms of what a layman may consider propaganda?

We know that Nazi Germany is probably the most famous nation when it comes to weird inventions that are often even impractical (Maus, Sonnengewehr, Schwerer Gustav, Ratte), especially in pop culture. But, how many other nations also had a lot of experimental, impractical inventions during that period? I know about the T28 Super Heavy Tank developed by America, but nothing other than that.