/u/RusticBohemian's posts
Pliny the Elder launched the world's first recorded disaster relief operation. What happened to his fleet?
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The best man at the wedding — any truth that they were, historically, the "best swordsman" of the groom's town, there to provide protection and see off any challengers/bridenappers?
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Was the reaction to the US's failure in Vietnam similar to how people are reacting to Russia's failure to dominate Ukraine?
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How and why did the term negro get replaced with African American? Martin Luther King Jr. seemed to use it without reservation, but now it seems like it is considered offensive by some.
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Did the US founding fathers consider adding emergency dictatorships to the constitution, as was so effective in the early Roman Republic?
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Why did Dante have such a high opinion of the Muslim general Saladin that he did not place him among the damned in hell in his book, "The Inferno"?
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John Adams wrote that the US constitution was, "made for a moral and religious people," and that it is, "wholly inadequate to the government of any other." What elements of the constitution did he believe were suited for a religious society but not an irreligious one?
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Did WWI & WWII supply constraints turn combatant populations into "necessity vegetarians?" Was this considered politically untenable?
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