/r/AskHistorians
Many people who suffer from paranoid schizophrenia have this fear of an overarching government conspiracy to spy on them and hide cameras and such. How would a medieval peasant with this condition be affected since they didn't have much of the technology at the time that we have now, to worry about?
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The Founding narrative of the United States gives a lot of attention to Jamestown (1607) and Plymouth (1620), but Newport News (1613) and Hampton, VA (1610), and Albany, NY (1614) were founded in the same era, are much larger cities, but get much less attention. Why aren’t they as relevant?
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Was an "atomic bomb" something that people at large understood was a thing that could exist prior to the Hiroshima bombing, or was its invention and use a complete surprise to everyone except cutting-edge physicists?
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Wouldn't a visit to a brothel in pre-antibiotic days almost guarantee transmission of an STD? Maybe not with a single visit, but say after several? How is that sustainable?
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In the movie BlacKkKlansman, David Duke uses phrase 'America first' and speaks about returning America to its greatness. Were these phrases really common for KKK back then or did the writers took 'artistic liberty' in this case?
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In the movie 'Terminator' (1984), Arnold Schwarzenegger's cyborg character 'purchases' several firearms in 1984 Los Angeles, including AR-18, Spas-12, Uzi and 1911 pistol. How realistic is this for 1984 California gun legislation?
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As someone who is nonreligious, I find it unlikely that Jesus Christ came back from the dead. I imagine many secular historians feel the same way. With this in mind, are there any theories as to what happened between his death and the formation of Christianity to make people think he did?
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