/u/Blaskowicz's posts in /r/askhistorians
The physician in the autopsy of Charles II gave some very... colorful (if not medically impossible) descriptions like "heart the size of a peppercorn" and "did not contain a single drop of blood." What was going on in these autopsies?
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In Bram Stoker's Dracula, one of the character speaks highly of Texas and its inclusion to the Union. Given that the novel is set in late 19th Century Europe, what place does Texas hold in the popular culture, or collective consciousness, at that time?
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On October 3, 1942 the first man-made object reached space: a V-2 A4 rocket test. Did the Nazi scientists at Pennemünde knew about their world record? What did they think? Did the rest of the scientific community find out?
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