/u/PickleRick1001's posts in /r/askhistorians
Prince Sixtus Henry of Bourbon-Parma, the Carlist pretender to the Spanish throne, enlisted in the Spanish Foreign Legion in 1965 under a false identity. Why did he do this? Was there a political motive?
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During his state visit to Chile, Fidel Castro was escorted by Augusto Pinochet, who was the Commander of the Chilean Army at the time. Do we know what they thought of each other at the time? And did they comment on their meeting after Pinochet took power?
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I often hear that people in the past did not have the same ideas about sexuality that we have today. So when, where, and why did the modern conception of sexuality develop?
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The American Civil War happened around the same period as the Italian and German Wars of Unification. What do historians make of this?
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Has the Islamic institution of Waqf ever been used to create or sustain an aristocratic or noble class ?
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How would the Abbasid Caliphs have been coronated/enthroned/inaugurated? Was there a ceremony? Was there any "Caliphal Regalia"?
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How much contact was there between the seafaring peoples of the Pacific Islands and the rest of South East and East Asia in the past ?
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