3. Sunday Digest | Interesting & Overlooked Posts | May 30, 2021

Sunday Digest | Interesting & Overlooked Posts | May 30, 2021

/u/MaharajadhirajaSawai answered Medieval and/or Ancient History. Your Army has just lost a battle. What happens now?
/u/mikedash answered Sacrificial Kings, and Did the Empire of Japan seriously try to make conman Ignaz Trebitsch-Lincoln the 14th Dalai Lama? and I am a 20 year old factory worker in a slum in London in 1850 without a penny to my name. I dream of traveling to exotic British India to adventure and make my fortune. Is it possible for me to do so? And if so what might I find in way of employment when I get there?, and What is going on in this scene from "The Great Train Robbery" (1978)?
/u/Myrmidon99 answered Halsey acted foolishly and Eleanor Roosevelt's Pearl Harbor address on December 7th states that the President was speaking to the Japanese ambassador when the attack happened. What were they talking about? and Did Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbour seal their fate? and In the movie Flags of our Fathers, a man falls overboard when the convoy of hundreds of ships are en route to Iwo Jima.A fellow crew mate then states that no ship will stop for him,and he is seemingly left to drown.Was this Naval policy in the Pacific,and if so are there occurrences of it happening?

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