/u/JollyRabbit's posts

Title	Upvotes	Subreddit
Are there any known instances in history of the "big guns" on a battleship actually hitting an airplane? What about the main gun on a tank?	14	AskHistorians
During the medieval period in Europe, what were common fates for common soldiers if they were not ransomed, when a war was over?	14	AskHistorians
Pike and shot formations would eventually have the pikes far outnumbering the shot, if too many pikemen died would any of the individuals with guns become pikeman or dod they just operate with less pikemen? How did that decision work?	13	AskHistorians
What sort of administrative or bureaucratic challenges might an African American Soldier serving in Western Europe face if they wanted to remain in France or England after the end of WW1 or WW2? How much immigration of US black troops to Europe occurred after the war?	13	AskHistorians
Many apples that we eat are clones of apples which are hundreds of years old. Every time most human cells divide, the telomere on our DNA shortens until we eventually die. Why isn't this a problem for apple trees?	9	askscience
[WP] Tomorrow the world awakens to a shocking and totally inexplicable discovery. That North Dakota and North Korea have swapped location in the dead of night, people, trees, mountains and all.	8	WritingPrompts
History seems to be full of many examples of people claiming to be dead or exiled or defeated royalty and then trying to claim a throne, only to be defeated. If they won they are of course whoever they claim to be. Are there any examples of people who probably lied about who they were but then won?	7	AskHistorians
Many people knew how big the world was at time of Columbus. Using that knowledge and knowing how long his trip was, how widespread among academics and scholars was the belief that Columbus had not actually made it to Asia early after his first voyage?	6	AskHistorians
During WWII were there soldiers imprisoned for desertion or otherwise imprisoned for crimes related to dereliction of duty in Germany? Probably in Japan too? Is there any information available on what happened to those sorts of people after the war ended? Were they released?	4	AskHistorians
Not POWs, but American soldiers who were stationed in Europe at the end of World War I and II and whose term of service were up and were being sent home. If they wanted to stay in an Allied country, did they have any options to do so? Did the army or navy force them to go back to the US first?	4	AskHistorians

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