/u/Titus____Pullo's posts
It took J Edgar Hoover just two years to go from a legal clerkship to a division head. What did he do his first two years of law enforcement to stand out?
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What did the Gauls have to gain by attacking Hannibal on his march to Italy? Is it possible they did it solely for intangible reasons?
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In 1590 the future Shogun and current Daimyo Tokugawa Ieyasu traded 5 provinces for the 8 of the Hojo. Did Ieyasu take his current samurai and inherit the Hojo samurai? I just don't understand how the logistics of this would work given the feudal system in place.
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It's pretty much accepted as fact that modern athletes are bigger, faster, stronger and better trained with better diets than their counterparts generations ago. Do we see any similar improvement of Roman gladiators over time?
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In HBO's Deadwood, set in the Dakota Territory in the 1870's, a man from China cuts off his braided ponytail. He appears to be indicating he is now forever dedicated to America. Could this be accurate? What would cutting off your hair mean to a Chinese immigrant at that time?
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Under the mid-90's assault weapons ban why were bayonet lugs included in the criteria? Was there a rash of bayonetings?
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Why didn't the Roe v Wade decision that there is a right to privacy lead to many other non-abortion laws being overturned?
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In HBO's Rome a Centurian returning to Rome from the Gallic Wars estimates his spoils of war (mostly slaves) is 10,000 denari. Is that amount of wealth about what would be expected for someone who spent 8 years in Gaul?
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Louis XI of France forced a marriage of his 2nd cousin, Louis of Orleans, to a sterile woman hoping to wipe out a cadet branch of the dynasty. Was this a common practice?
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