/u/Real_Carl_Ramirez's posts in /r/AskHistorians
How did Saddam Hussein cling to power despite the unsuccessful outcomes of the Iran-Iraq War and Gulf War?
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According to Wikipedia, Austrian president Alexander Van der Bellen held Estonian citizenship from 1944 to 1958. How does one get citizenship of a nation which didn't exist at that time?
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Why does Thunderstorm asthma appear to be a recent phenomenon? Why is it not attested to in earlier sources?
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The Roman Empire maintained a dedicated fleet to transport grain from Egypt to Rome. Did the Caliphate, the Byzantine Empire, or the Ottomans have a similar system?
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Winston Churchill's reaction to the Holocaust was to call it "a crime without a name". How did people refer to deliberate attempts at wiping out a people before that?
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Was there a reason the guillotine or Halifax Gibbet was not used for high profile executions in England?
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