/u/Erezen's posts in /r/askhistorians
How much did the Guyanese government and media know about the People's Temple? What was the Guyanese reaction to the mass suicide?
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Why was a German prince, of all possibilities, selected to be the new king of Greece? Why not choose a king from the native Greek elite?
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I just finished watching the movie "Sarajevo" (2014) which seems sympathetic to the idea that the Austro-Hungarian government baited the Serbs into assassinating the Archduke. Is there any evidence of this being true?
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Imperial Japanese soldiers in WWII were often severely abused by officers and NCO's. Did the Wehrmacht face similar problems?
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The anti-apartheid movement in South Africa was famously hostile to the imposition of Afrikaans in education and government. How did this play out with the Cape Coloured community, which is overwhelmingly Afrikaans-speaking?
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Why did Oahu become the main population center of the Hawaiian Islands, if the archipelago was united by a king from the Big Island?
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Athenian juries were typically of ~500 men, and sometimes over 1000. Why were they so large? Were verdicts slow to arrive due to their size?
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Do we know why Shakespeare (and perhaps other 16th-17th century English playwrights) preferred to set their plays in exotic locations?
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