/u/AnnalsPornographie's posts in /r/askhistorians
Hello /r/AskHistorians! My name is Brian Watson and I am here to answer your (academic) questions about the history of pornography and obscenity.
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What's the deal with all the sword fights in Shakespeare? Some of them seem a bit forced into the plot. Were they just for show? Would an audience member have just gone for these like we go see action movies today?
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Why are gummy bears, the most popular gummies, bears and not some other sort of animal like dog or cat or something else?
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Is it true that Saint Patrick driving the snakes out of Ireland is actually a metaphor for pagan genocide? What are the origins of this story?
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Dan Carlin claims that each Greek city-state before Alexander the Great specialized in a different sort of military warfare and had different stereotypes, eg burly farmer Thebians. Is this accurate? What were some of the stereotypes?
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What do medievalists and theologians think about Umberto Ecos literature? Is it historically accurate?
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