/u/Possible_Bug_9594's posts in /r/askhistorians
Ancient Rome pop. around 450,000. It's one of the biggest days of the year at the Arena. People from far away are traveling to. Where do you park your horse, chariot? Valet? Paid parking? Recreated maps show tight streets w/little open ground, so, how were all the transportation vehicles handled?
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Post WW2 Germany, how well (or not) did former soldiers adjust? What kind of treatment did they receive form next governments and society? And books covering tis topic?
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The Gallipoli Campaign of WW1 threatened Istanbul and the survival of the Ottoman empire. How culpable were the participants (UK France...) to the later Armenian Genocide? Was this a major source of the following massacre?
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How divisive was the UK over the Aldermaston Marches (59-63)? Sure they gathered large protests against nuclear weapons, but , were there an equal or greater amount of conservative support for?Also the peace symbol was seemingly born here, how did it leap across to the US and symbolize the 60'S?
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In 1995 the US Postal Service issued Civil War stamps that included amongst others Robert E. Lee,, Jefferson Davis, and Stonewall Jackson. When did the idea of everything conferderate become toxic ?
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How viable was the German option to pull back to the Hindenburg Line/set-up a defensive perimeter and continue WW1/force a more equitable peace agreement from there?
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