/u/Samoyedenthusiast's posts
The 1916 Irish Proclamation: 'In every generation the Irish people have asserted their right to national freedom and sovereignty; six times during the past 300 years they have asserted it in arms' Try as I might, I can only come up with five examples. Do we know which ones the writers had in mind?
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David Lloyd George famously threatened the Irish delegation at the Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations with a 'Great and terrible war' if they didn't sign the treaty. Was it a bluff?
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Did Hannibal really 'snatch defeat from the jaws of victory' by not marching on Rome in the immediate aftermath of Cannae?
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What were the war goals of the Irish Rebel Alliance during the Nine Years War and how did they evolve over its course?
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Christianity in Europe, particularly the early church, is often described as a fusion of traditional Jewish religion with Greco-Roman philosophy. Do Christian branches which arises outside of the Roman Empire show evidence in their teachings or practices of substrates specific to their areas?
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in 2002, Jean Marie Le Pen shocked France, Europe and himself by qualifying for the second round of the French Presidential election. Why was this so inconceivable at the time and how did it happen anyway?
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Even by the questionable standards of many monarchies, Roman Imperial succession seems particularly dysfunctional- is that actually the case and if so we're there systematic reasons for their inability to maintain a stable succession?
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