/u/wuop's posts in /r/askhistorians
In old Westerns, trackers could follow fugitives across any landscape at speed, and couldn't be shook by old movie standbys like walking through the water. What's realistic about how well and fast a tracker could track, and are there any other interesting historical aspects of tracking?
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Who made medieval swords, who made hilts (or their parts), and who made scabbards? Were they all the same person, and if not, did they have to work closely together?
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With apologies for the not-normal questions, I'm just asking for commentary on the history of the saw. It just fascinates me how we made such a thing in an age before machinery.
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What are the origins of fiction? As in, earliest known instances of recorded stories that the audience would understand didn't actually happen?
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How does the passage of time make it harder or easier to learn about centuries or millennia past? Does the answer differ between centuries and millenia?
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How much difficulty would a modern free soloist such as Alex Honnold have scaling the walls of an ancient city?
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A recent answer indicated that during his impeachment, Nixon enjoyed a solid core of hardcore supporters. Do we know what happened to that support over time?
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