/u/corruptrevolutionary's posts in /r/askhistorians
The electric car is as old as the internal combustion engine; Did Imperial Germany, Nazi Germany or any wartime industrialized nation attempt to revive the electric car to ease the demand on oil?
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Why did the Spanish choose the Santa Fe area to settle and place the capital over more fertile lands along the Rio Grande?
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Do any Crusader Chronicles mention disappointment in the city of Jerusalem? That this place so central in Christian Mythology was just a run-of-the-mill city?
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In what ways did Medieval farmers protect their grain and harvests from vermin and rot in the barn? Specifically Cistercian farms?
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It’s the 14th century and the Teutonic Order wants German settlers for Prussia. How do I, a German peasant, get my heavy iron plough into that Thicc Baltic soil?
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The Spanish kings were called the "Catholic Monarchs" Catholic meaning universal. Was this an attempt to replace the Holy Roman Emperors as the 'Universal Empire'?
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The “Schlieffen Plan” couldn’t have been the *only* plan the German general staff had on the books for a Russo/French War; What other plans did the Easterners & Westerners argue over?
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