/u/Sedretpol's posts in /r/AskHistorians
Just watched Gunbuster, released in 1988 but set in 2023. It features a character from the USSR. Did everyone really think the USSR would last the 90's, even as late as '88?
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In the game Rome Total Realism, the city of Syracuse is much bigger than anything except for maybe some in the Levant. Is this accurate and if so what gives?
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I just got back from the South Wales miners' library, a place full of the history of socialist Britain. Tonight, I realized know almost nothing about labour and left-wing movements in Canada.
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Evan Hadfield (Rare Earth) claimed that the Tokugawa of Japan were aware of "Spains activities in the Philippines" and this influenced their closed door policies. Is he accurate in this claim?
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Did people write about what it was like to be in a town during WW1 when it got told all the men in the town had died in a single attack?
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How fair a statement is "[Japan's war and Europe's war in WW2] were both largely separate but coincidental events"?
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Know Your Enemy, Japan. 1945 video preparing US troops for Japan. How much of it is propaganda nonsense and how much is accurate (or at least reasonable)?
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Why did it take us so long to invent the lens? Microscopes and telescopes reveal so much about the world, and require only glass, sandpaper and patience.
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Historians love rubbish pits. Why don't we dig through modern rubbish pits and record them before half of it decomposes?
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