/u/Pashahlis's posts

Title	Upvotes	Subreddit
British admiral Beatty during WW1 employed an incompetent signals lieutenant, lost two battlecruisers due to recklessness, and let the Germans scuttle their fleet under his nose at the end of the war. How did he manage to become First Sea Lord despite all this?	36	AskHistorians
How did European nations prior to WW1 handle connecting their railways with those of other nations? Especially when those were considered their enemies as with Germany and France?	34	AskHistorians
What happened during the India-Pakistan partition of 1947 that caused several hundred thousand people to two million to lose their lives, and that caused a gigantic refugee wave?	32	AskHistorians
Why did Russia change its official title from Tsardom to Empire in 1721? Tsar was basically already equivalent to Emperor back then. So why then was this done? What did Emperor express that Tsar could not? Especially considering that the Russian monarchs kept being called Tsars informally.	31	AskHistorians
Why did neither Brazil nor Argentina join the Axis during WW2, despite both countries being right-wing dictatorships with fascist tendencies at the time? And why didn't Argentina use the opportunity of Brazil's entry into WW2 on the Allied side to join the Axis and invade one of its biggest rivals?	31	AskHistorians
Prior to its dissolution in 1918, Prussia was the center of conservative and reactionary power in the German Empire. Yet during the era of the Weimar Republic it became a bastion for democracy and freedom. How and why did this change occur?	30	AskHistorians
As a German I am not well versed in the history of Italian Unification. It all seems very weird to me so I would appreciate someone giving me a bit of insight into the why and hows of the Italian Unification!	30	AskHistorians
It is every woman's childhood dream to become a fairy.	30	TwoSentenceHorror
"National Epics" formed the basis for many of the nationalistic movements in the 19th century. These national epics would "capture and express the essence or spirit of a particular nation". How would that look like? In what way would a national epic express the essence of a particular nation?	29	AskHistorians
It is commonly accepted that the original depiction of fairies is of human sized, wingless nature spirits (much like traditional fantasy elfs) and that the depiction of small, winged women is a later development. Well, when and how did this development come about then?	27	AskHistorians

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