/u/Obversa's posts
What polling shows about the top VP contenders for Kamala Harris: Mark Kelly, Josh Shapiro emerge as frontrunners; Andy Beshear, Tim Walz are more unknown
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With scientists speculating that the Amazon rainforest will transition back to "grassland or plains" in the future, do you think will we see the re-evolution of terror birds?
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"Most extreme white supremacists ever": Project 2025 contributors have a history of racism, eugenics, and advocating for forced sterilization of "low-IQ Black people"
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After the deaths of Tsar Nicholas II and his family in 1918, the Russian royal succession appeared to enter a crisis, with the Pauline Laws of 1797 and morganatic marriages at the center of it. How have the Pauline Laws impacted the House of Romanov, and why are the Laws so important to them?
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In a 1910 article for "The Atlantic" titled "A Hero's Conscience: A Study of Robert E. Lee", biographer Gamaliel Bradford Jr. compared Robert E. Lee to George Washington in how many Southerners viewed Lee. Was Lee ever proposed as a potential U.S. Presidential candidate by his supporters?
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In early U.S. history (1600s-1700s), heraldry was popular. Five states assumed coats-of-arms; 35 Founding Fathers had arms; and George Washington stated in 1788 that heraldry is not "unfriendly to the purest spirit of republicanism". Why, then, did heraldry later become obscure in the United States?
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King Henry VII, the founder of the Tudor dynasty, claimed to be the rightful King of England by royal descent through his mother, Margaret Beaufort. However, the French succession only allowed the throne to pass through male heirs. Why did France enforce Salic law over male-preference primogeniture?
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