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Has there ever been an example of a private corperation fighting a full scale war against a sovereign country?

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What is the first recorded example of a suicide bombing, in the sense of a deliberately constructed 'suicide jacket / bomb belt'?

57 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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Is Saint Patrick's Day a Christianized version of some Celtic spring equinox festival, or is the timing just a coincidence?

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To what extent did the Arabian people colonize the middle east? Are the people of the middle east just culturally Arabized, or have they been genetically subsumed by Arabian Arabs to the point of being indistinguishable?

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How did black, blue, and red come to be the predominant colors used in ink pen writing?

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Did the Nazi government ever describe their movement as as a form "Fascism", or were Fascism and Nazism conflated by later historians?

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Why did so many protests and social movements come to a head in the year 1968?

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Did Fascism ever develop into a coherent ideology before it gained political power?

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How would a modern US infantry unit fare in WW1 style trench warfare?

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Which would be more difficult to colonize; the surface of Mars or the ocean floor of Earth?

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Has there ever been an example of a private corperation fighting a full scale war against a sovereign country?	282	AskHistorians
What is the first recorded example of a suicide bombing, in the sense of a deliberately constructed 'suicide jacket / bomb belt'?	57	AskHistorians
Is Saint Patrick's Day a Christianized version of some Celtic spring equinox festival, or is the timing just a coincidence?	44	AskHistorians
To what extent did the Arabian people colonize the middle east? Are the people of the middle east just culturally Arabized, or have they been genetically subsumed by Arabian Arabs to the point of being indistinguishable?	38	AskHistorians
How did black, blue, and red come to be the predominant colors used in ink pen writing?	15	AskHistorians
Did the Nazi government ever describe their movement as as a form "Fascism", or were Fascism and Nazism conflated by later historians?	10	AskHistorians
Why did so many protests and social movements come to a head in the year 1968?	4	AskHistorians
Did Fascism ever develop into a coherent ideology before it gained political power?	3	AskHistorians
How would a modern US infantry unit fare in WW1 style trench warfare?	1	AskHistorians
Which would be more difficult to colonize; the surface of Mars or the ocean floor of Earth?	1	askscience