/u/chikindiner's posts in /r/askhistorians
Were gender relationships and familial roots central to Dutch colonization in the 17th century vice commercial maritime trade?
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Can anyone tell me a little more about the cats parachuted into Borneo to control the population boom of rats because of the chain reaction of DDT use? Who came up with Operation Cat Drop? Was there a debate around it?
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"Its" vs "it's": How and when did the contraction defeat the possessive in the Apostrophe War? For that matter, did standardized grammar emerge at the same time as standardized spelling? Have the rules of modern English grammar been more fluid than spelling?
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The Call of the Wild is written from a dog's point of view. Is Jack London unique in his time period for using a non-human protagonist?
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Is there a 19th century analog to the midlife crisis Corvette? Was midlife crisis even a popular concept yet? If so, what were some of the stereotypes associated with it?
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What was media coverage of "terrorism" vs "Islamic terrorism" like in the US prior to and after the 1993 World Trade Center bombing? Was there a distinction? Did the bombing impact that?
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Yesterday was the 100th Anniversary of the beginning of the Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916. Without it, we might not have Jaws. So, is this event why I freak out when something touches my leg in murky water?
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If a relatively healthy young man dropped dead of an aneurysm in 14th Century England what would it likely be attributed to?
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