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What events led Maryland, a colony founded for English Catholics, to be the only state to ever vote for the virulently anti-catholic Know Nothing Party in the 19th century?

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Celtic culture existed in antiquity from Spain to Britain to Anatolia. Why then was the Roman conquest of Gaul the end to druids? Were there not independent druids in Briton that survived Caesar's genocide who could shed light on their traditions?

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[WP] A modern geneticist meets Hitler in hell, where the dictator learns that the sins that led him there were based on faulty science, and he killed all those people for nothing

10 upvotes • r/WritingPrompts

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[WP] You are the authoritarian dictator of a struggling nation, and as your life nears it's end, you solemnly begin to pen a letter to the people of this country, a letter no one may ever read

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Excepting CS Lewis, are there any notable or well-executed examples of "alternate incarnation fiction"— stories where what is likely meant to be the Christian God/Logos incarnates in some form or world other than Jesus of Nazareth?

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[EU]After years in Congress, Frank Underwood was named Majority Whip at the start of his 8th term in 2005, the same time as the reelection of President Bartlett.

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[WP] An Artificial intelligence becomes very passionate about faith, before realizing it is not a Child of God.

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[WP]It is some time before 10,000 BC, your tribe is on its nomadic path through the near east, you see what some consider curiosity, and others abnormality: a community that plants its feet in the soil for a lifetime in the same settlement, without following the herds or exhausting the flora

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[WP] A Vacuum Metastability Event occurs when a random fluctuation produces a bubble of more stable space, which then expands at the speed of light forever, obliterating all it contacts. Civilizations run at the edge desperate to postpone their inevitable doom, picking up others along the way.

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[WP] A coin minted in 2037 is found on the body of a presidential assassin

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What events led Maryland, a colony founded for English Catholics, to be the only state to ever vote for the virulently anti-catholic Know Nothing Party in the 19th century?	12	AskHistorians
Celtic culture existed in antiquity from Spain to Britain to Anatolia. Why then was the Roman conquest of Gaul the end to druids? Were there not independent druids in Briton that survived Caesar's genocide who could shed light on their traditions?	11	AskHistorians
[WP] A modern geneticist meets Hitler in hell, where the dictator learns that the sins that led him there were based on faulty science, and he killed all those people for nothing	10	WritingPrompts
[WP] You are the authoritarian dictator of a struggling nation, and as your life nears it's end, you solemnly begin to pen a letter to the people of this country, a letter no one may ever read	9	WritingPrompts
Excepting CS Lewis, are there any notable or well-executed examples of "alternate incarnation fiction"— stories where what is likely meant to be the Christian God/Logos incarnates in some form or world other than Jesus of Nazareth?	8	Fantasy
[EU]After years in Congress, Frank Underwood was named Majority Whip at the start of his 8th term in 2005, the same time as the reelection of President Bartlett.	8	WritingPrompts
[WP] An Artificial intelligence becomes very passionate about faith, before realizing it is not a Child of God.	7	WritingPrompts
[WP]It is some time before 10,000 BC, your tribe is on its nomadic path through the near east, you see what some consider curiosity, and others abnormality: a community that plants its feet in the soil for a lifetime in the same settlement, without following the herds or exhausting the flora	6	WritingPrompts
[WP] A Vacuum Metastability Event occurs when a random fluctuation produces a bubble of more stable space, which then expands at the speed of light forever, obliterating all it contacts. Civilizations run at the edge desperate to postpone their inevitable doom, picking up others along the way.	4	WritingPrompts
[WP] A coin minted in 2037 is found on the body of a presidential assassin	3	WritingPrompts