/u/lhrp's posts in /r/askhistorians
In 1976 10 year old Brooke Shields did a number of nude photoshoots for Playboy. How in the world was this legal? Was there any public outrage? NSFW
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I read that Argentina is made up of nearly 100% Europeans. How come nations like Australia and New Zealand are seen as apart of the greater European sphere but not a nation like Argentina?
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In the 1960s through 1970s the “Indian Health Service” forcefully or manipulatively sterilized 25% to 50% of Native American women as young as 11 years old. Why? Was there any Native resistance? Whatever happened to the survivors?
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During the years 1906-1975 Sweden had an eugenics program which forcefully sterilized many types of people but what caught my eye was their sterilization of the quote "feebleminded" and "antisocial". What effect did this have on their society? How is someone deemed "antisocial"?
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I read that Nixon multiple times on tape repeated the lines “The Jewish Cabal is out to get me.” Why did he come to believe there was a Jewish conspiracy out to get him?
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Why were there so many strange cultlike Abrahamic religions such as Frankism or the Khlysts in Eastern Europe? How did these faiths even come into existence?
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Joan Malet, the Catalan witch-hunter, was born sometime during 1510 and died on July 2nd 1549. What was the average salary of a witch-hunter during his time? If it wasn't a profitable career choice, what made someone want to become a witch-hunter?
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There's a lot of whacky shenanigans concerning the dreams of emperors or the dreams of their generals. I know some of them must be myth, but were they all myths? If not, what lead to people so faithfully following these dreams to the point of dying for them?
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