/u/TheBronzeAgeCollapse's posts
The Taiping Rebellion was the largest civil war in history, the biggest war of the 19th Century, and fairly recent in the grand scheme of things. How come it's not talked about more often?
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Wyoming granted women suffrage in 1869, fifty years before the 19th Amendment, and before any Western country enacted it on a nation-wide level. This was a popular decision among the residents of the then-territory. What made Wyoming progressive when it came women's rights?
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Is there any validity whatsoever to the idea that Islam was founded as an alt-Christian anti-Nicene 'conspiracy'?
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Russia and France fought both the Napoleonic and Crimean Wars within half a century, yet classic Russian literature portrays many characters of that period conversing in French. How common was it, for educated Russians of the 19th Century, to speak in French rather than their own language, and why?
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The name of the Shakya Clan, to which the Buddha belonged, apparently has etymological roots in the Pali Sakka and Sanskrit Sakya. Was this group related to the Scythian/Iranic Saka of the Tarim Basin?
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Why was Freemasonry so ubiquitous among early modern revolutionaries, and how much did it influence their beliefs?
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Was the 'Western' genre created by gun manufacturers? If so, did this give rise to modern American gun culture?
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According to relatives, my grandfather worked for a Yugoslav Partisan radio station during WW2. They do not have much detail on what he did. Which radio station could this be, and how would the Partisans have used it?
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Are there any cultures that used naming conventions similar to Native Americans (e.g., Sitting Bull, Red Cloud, etc.)?
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