u/Fair-Pen1831

So for some context the Battle of Sedan photo depicts Prussian skirmishers engaging in a firefight next to a French farmhouse.

I saw on a Franco Prussian War forum that floated the possibility of the photo being staged. It's not impossible given that combat footage of the Spanish American War, 2nd Boer War, and Russo Japanese Wars actually were staged with some Boer War footage having been filmed in the United States by Edison and African Americans were used to represent Filipinos in footage of that war also filmed in the United States. But then again, there is a black streak next to the farmhouse that could be blood.

Osprey Campaigns depicts Yarmouk as a multiple day set piece battle between the Eastern Romans and Rashudins. If a set piece battle actually happened, it wouldn't have lasted very long as the Romans were not only much better equipped, but their command apparatus was much more proficient in these large scale engagements courtesy of experience gained against the Sassanids. The Wars of the Prophet that preceded the Rashudin war with the Romans by comparison were much smaller scale affairs involving only a few thousand men at most.

Osprey's set piece battle hypothesis seems to be inspired by questionable Arab sources from the later Caliphates, which in turn inspired an assessment by Pakistani Major General Akram, and another by Jordan's Yarmuk University.

Meanwhile, Robert Hoyland's depiction has the Roman contingent under Vahan ambushed and butchered in their own camp by the Rashudins after Theodore of Edessa withdrew his forces due to having lost an earlier engagement with the Rashudins and an argument between Theodore and Vahan over the latter being proclaimed emperor by his own troops. At the very least, this version of events seems more likely not only because of Roman conventional force superiority but the tradition of successful enough generals planning to usurp the sitting emperor upon their return from a successful campaign which in this case would have been Heraclius.

Now for the troop strengths

As early as the 660s, Pseudo-Sebeos mentions a Roman force of 70,000 being defeated in an ambush and other ancient sources depict the Roman and Rashudin forces as even larger with the Burgundian Fredegar depicting 150,000 Romans and 200,000 Arabs.

The troop numbers provided by Osprey seem somewhat plausible with a Eastern Roman expeditionary force of ~20,000-30,000 strong with 50,000 total including forces allocated to defending rear areas and the like. Osprey's estimates for the Rashudins force depict a "most likely" 25,000 strong.

Hoyland is more vague with a force of unspecified size being under Vahan's command being reinforced by 10,000 under Theodore of Edessa.

Given the dire economic straits from a multiple decade war with the Sassanids, the Eastern Romans having numerical parity with the Rashudins seems likely with a sizable amount of the manpower being scraped from Syrian Limetani and Arab Foederati.

During his escape and he runs into women that look like Ann, he just throws them in the air and ignores them which at the very least grievously injured them if not out right killed them. This tells us he has little regard for other women he doesn't view as "his" in the most possessive meaning possible which was how he viewed Ann. Going off of this knowledge, if he didn't like any of the prior brides the natives offered him as sacrifices Kong wouldn't have cared what happened to them and done things like just chucking away at a tree or something and not caring if they survive.

We know that none of the prior brides were alive by the time of the events of the movie because when Kong takes Ann we see a pile of necklaces which would have been from prior brides. These would have lasted long enough and would have likely died of natural causes given that Kong would have cared enough to keep them alive and given what we see in the movie of everything he's willing to risk to make sure Ann stays alive he could handle pretty much any predators Skull Island could throw at him. They weren't eaten by predators because if they were Kong wouldn't have been able to recover the necklaces or cared to stop the predators.