/u/edwardtaughtme's posts in /r/AskHistorians
One last time, since it's (again) the week's theme: How did members of the Weather Underground mostly escape punishment and rejoin the upper class/high status professions/whatever you want to call it? How "elite" were their upbringings, overall?
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How did members of the Weather Underground mostly escape punishment and rejoin the upper class/high status professions/whatever you want to call it? How "elite" were their upbringings, overall?
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"The Atlantic" recently described Donald Rumsfeld as "America’s worst secretary of defense," explicit comparison to Robert McNamara notwithstanding; what were the redeeming features of Robert McNamara's tenure?
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Myths, Legends, and Folklore: How were the acts of adultery and rape by deception in Arthurian legend interpreted by 12th and 15th century audiences? NSFW
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In 1965, Tom Lehrer performed "Who's Next," about nuclear proliferation, with the climax being "We'll try to stay serene and calm, when Alabama gets the bomb," together with a song about Wernher von Braun - would his audience have known von Braun's lab was in Alabama?
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In "The Odyssey," how would remarrying have affected Penelope legally, politically, and socially? Could/Would an widow in Ithaca['s equivalent] refuse to remarry for practical, rather than principled/romantic, reasons?
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A generation of Jewish scientist emigres from Budapest was so disproportionately successful, they joked that they were the bastards of Martian scouts and that the Manhattan Project was a Hungarian High School science fair project. What was the public reaction to the jokes, especially the latter?
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