/u/JohnnyFiveOhAlive's posts

Title	Upvotes	Subreddit
Andrew Jackson's parrot was supposedly thrown out of his funeral for cursing. Who got the parrot after he died? What happened to it?	1286	AskHistorians
In WW1 and WW2, thousands of Americans volunteered to serve in Canadian armed forces before the U.S. entered the war. How did this effect their draft status if those people were drafted by the U.S.? Were there actions criminal or punished? How was the situation handled?	343	AskHistorians
Uniform uniforms are relatively recent, even if there was some uniformity in the past, depending on the nation. Medieval armies were sort of a patch work though. When a besieging force would breach a city and sack it, how would soldiers identify and thus avoid killing their own side?	59	AskHistorians
Some of the sculptures made before modern times seem... almost impossible in fine detail to make without breaking something. Were there any methods available to or used sculptors to repair small, fine details without them being detected? Glue or other bonding agents?	35	AskHistorians
Has an American President, after serving his term, ever served on a jury?	28	AskHistorians
Salting the earth has been used to punish losers of wars. But have invasive species ever been used as a weapon of war or revenge after a war? I do not mean things like plague rats to spread disease, I mean the introduction of animals or plans to play havoc with the local ecosystem.	25	AskHistorians
British scientists aided the Manhattan project but the United States declined to help the United Kingdom make nuclear weapons. Were there any consequences of any sort for US-UK relations or any fallout of the US refusal to help the UK with their own nuclear program?	25	AskHistorians
During WW1 the Chinese government sent laborers to help the allies, the Chinese Labor Corps. Were the laborers volunteers, "draftees" or well, slaves/forced laborers? How was it decided who was sent?	18	AskHistorians
I am a typical peasant farmer in western Europe in the 16th century. Where do I get my drinking water from and how safe is it?	17	AskHistorians
If a probe was sent to drill into the ice of Europa to search for life, couldn't even a single microbe potentially introduce life to the planet or threaten their biosphere? Can we render a probe truly, truly sterile and if so how can such be done?	17	askscience

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