/u/Rob-With-One-B's posts
After it adopted Christianity, how did the Roman Empire view Pontius Pilate and his role in the Crucifixion?
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How did the rest of Europe's great powers react when the ethnically-Jewish Benjamin Disraeli became British Prime Minister?
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Erich Mielke, long-time head of the Stasi, was brought to trial after German reunification, but the only crime he was ultimately convicted for were the 1931 murders of two police officers. Why was it so hard to convict the head of one of the most extensive secret police organisations ever to exist?
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A regularly-posted gif purports to show Hitler high on meth at the 1936 Olympics. Was it actually the case that Hitler was already using meth so early in his rule, and if so, why was it filmed?
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In Blood and Ruins: The Great Imperial War, Richard Overy states that the U.S. was planning to raise an army of 25 million men in 800 divisions if the Soviet Union fell to Nazi Germany. Was raising such a massive army ever a realistic possibility?
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Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings depicts an almost-completely-depopulated Third Age Middle-earth with only a handful of isolated towns and villages. How does this compare to 1066 England or France?
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Popular culture seems to have a fairly standard idea of what the Roman Army looked like, but where did it come from?
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I learned today that in the 1920s, there were a number of settlements of Ukrainians across Southern Russia, to the point that during the Russian Civil War they tried to establish the independent state of "Green Ukraine" in Outer Manchuria. My question is, how and why did they settle there?
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