/u/Darabo's posts in /r/AskHistorians
The opening scene of the HBO show "The Last of Us" has a scientist in 1968 talk about the possible warming of Earth. Was climate change known and wildly discussed back then? When did scientists and academics, followed by the wider public, start to notice and talk about climate change?
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How did the gambling industry in Las Vegas go from being run/influenced by the mafia to being mostly owned by major business conglomerates?
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Has there ever been a time when war was declared but the other side refused to declare war or fight back?
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The Olympic torch relay and "carrying the Olympic flame" was created by the Nazis for the 1936 Berlin Olympics for propaganda purposes. Post-WW2, was there any consideration or talk of stopping the ritual (or even controversy) due to its origins?
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What was the reaction to the union of Scotland and England, as well as the formation of the UK later on, among the monarchies of Europe at the time?
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Beauty pageants for young girls seem strange...How did they become a thing? Was it controversial when they first started due to their age, etc?
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Yad Vashem, the memorial for Jewish victims of the Holocaust, was first proposed in September 1942. To what extent did people know what was going on? Did overseas Jewish/Zionist communities try to help their European counterparts in anyway?
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