/u/Skipp_To_My_Lou's posts in /r/AskHistorians
I am a Medieval con artist who wants to pass off a chunk of old wood as a piece of the True Cross. How do I go about doing that?
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I'm an English tradesman in 1355 who's handy with a bow. Why do I want to join King Edward's army and fight in France? [repost]
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I am a French peasant in a small village in 1355 watching an advancing chevauchee party. Rather than put up a hopeless fight I recommend we surrender. What happens next?
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The 1991 song Body Count, by Ice-T, contains the line "Last weekend thirty seven kids killed in gang warfare in my back yard". Was that in reference to a real weekend in Los Angeles? And what did gang violence look like in early 90s LA?
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A Tweet from Quite Interesting made the claim "In 1879 the city of Liège in Belgium employed 37 cats to deliver mail to nearby villages. The experiment was unsuccessful." First off, is this true? And if true, I'd like some background on how that decision was made.
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