/u/Enleat's posts in /r/askhistorians
Bill and Rachel James claim in their book 'The Man from The Train' that they uncovered a serial killer who operated from 1898 to 1912 and killed close to a hundred people, by using the US railways system to evade capture. How likely is it that this occured? What do criminal historians think of it?
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How did naval warfare look like in the High and Late Medieval Period in Europe? What kinds of ships would we typically see in a naval battle?
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How were Pompeii and Herculaneum simply forgotten by the local population? They weren't exactly minor cities, neither was the surrounding area depopulated or hard to access, so what the Hell?
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Two of my great grandfathers fought in the Austro Hungarian army in WW1. Would i somehow be able to find out where they served?
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How did people actually *fight* in pike and shot formations? Did they just jab and push into one another hoping the other unit loses cohesion or was it more dynamic?
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What were the reasons behind The Chinese Warring States Period? What caused them to start and why did they go on for almost three hundred years?
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How accurate is Ken Burns' TV documentary series "Civil War"? Is it worth watching for someone seeking to learn more about The American Civil War?
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