/u/chikindiner's posts in /r/askhistorians
Where is Jimmy Hoffa? Is his disappearance one of those mysteries that's only a mystery in public imagination? Is there a "Yeah, we haven't found his body, but this is almost certainly what happened..." thing going on with the case? Or no?
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Were African slaves generally permitted to interact with Indians in places like early colonial Virginia? How did people like the Powhatan view Africans in comparison to the English?
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What is the origin of the snowman? And more specifically, the image everyone gets in their head (carrot nose, coal eyes, etc)?
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Is there a consensus on what happened to the victims of the Dyatlov Pass incident that don't involve a Yeti or aliens? Is the radiation (if there actually was radiation) on some of the bodies explained?
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Were there occultist or cryptozoological motivations to the Nazi expedition to Tibet from 1938 to 1939?
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The film Bridge of Spies makes it appear that the Berlin Wall went up out of the blue. How much warning did Western students like Frederic Pryor actually have before the wall went up?
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Edwin Booth, brother of John Wilkes Booth, saved Abraham Lincoln's son from serious injury or death on a train platform in 1864 or 1865. Can anyone tell me anything more about this incident? Did the two ever exchange words after Lincoln's assassination?
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I just watched Shutter Island again. Were lobotomies as common in the 1950's as portrayed in the movie?
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