/u/chikindiner's posts
The public often seems to place every war veteran in a default category of "damaged." Is this a post-Vietnam/Deerhunter/Rambo mentality? If not, how much further back does it go?
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How did graphic violence and sexual content enter mainstream cinema in the US? Did it slowly seep over from grindhouse/exploitation type B-movies? Was there one major hit that relaxed studios?
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Did early English Puritans espouse an infra- or supralapsarian view on election and reprobation? How did that change, if at all, on the other side of the Atlantic into the 18th century?
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What are settlers' expectations coming to North America in the middle of the 17th century? Are stories like Jamestown putting a negative spin on things? Or are they ready to get fat and rich? How do these expectations line up with reality?
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How did the Wingdings font come about? Why did it stay in Microsoft Word when the software went out for consumption? Just as a joke?
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Not that Ancient Rome and WW2 aren't interesting, but have moratoriums on these questions ever been seriously considered? Or would that do more harm than good?
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I read that up to 90% of the indigenous population in areas of the Amazon was killed by prospectors during the 'rubber boom. ' When these crimes came to light were any types of embargos or restrictions placed on rubber sales? How culpable are people like Goodrich and Dunlop?
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