/u/chikindiner's posts in /r/askhistorians
Came across Wikipedia's exceptional "List of Pigs" entry and discovered Learned Pigs and Toby the Sapient Pig, who could read minds. Were animal "freak shows" like this common in the late 18th century? Or did Toby and his kin have the market cornered?
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If you had to recommend a biography of each US President (from Washington to Clinton) what would they be and why? Alternatively, why is this a bad question?
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What widespread policy shaping did the DOD undertake in the wake of the 1991 US Navy sexual assault scandal (Tailhook)?
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Did people working at nuclear missile silos during the most tense moments of the Cold War have an understanding that retaliation on their exact location was almost guaranteed? In other words, did they consider firing nuclear weapons an act of suicide?
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Can anyone point me in the direction of a history of the Desert Fathers and Mothers and early monasticism?
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Mississippi didn't ratify the 13th Amendment (abolishing slavery) until 1995. Why did it take so long?
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"What's the hardest part about rollerblading?"--Bill Burr says in a routine that homophobia killed rollerblading. Did it?
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What was daily life like in Hawaii's leper colony? How did it change from when it opened in 1866 to when Hawaii's leprosy isolation law was repealed in 1969?
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