/u/nueoritic-parents's posts

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What were the causes of the 1975 Icelandic women's stike? What did it achieve? Was it modeled on anything? Where can I find first-hand accounts/recollections of it, both women and men?	38	AskHistorians
After 9/11, what was the ad industry’s response in depicting the Twin Towers? What were people’s immediate (and later) thought processes in terms of respecting but not censoring these buildings now famous for a tragedy?	38	AskHistorians
In every WII and maybe WWI movie, Allied soldiers almost always have their helmet straps undone. Why? As a subtle rebellion against an army they love but has sent them to war? Because chin straps suck?	36	AskHistorians
[WP] Oscar Wilde, Alan Turing, Anne Frank, and Da Vinci stare at the TV in shock. “What are all those rainbow flags and people?” one of them asks. “Pride,” you answer, “ “we’re going there now.”	36	WritingPrompts
When did night vision goggles become so well known to civilians that a scene from the POV of someone wearing them could be featured in movies without the audience being explicitly told what they were?	32	AskHistorians
How long did it take slavery to really end after the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect? Slave owners didn’t just free all their slaves right then, did they? How was the EP enforced? Did some owners threaten their former slaves if they tried to leave?	31	AskHistorians
My dad who’s a huge Led Zepplin fan loves to tell me how Zepplin, along with rock in general, is derived from jazz. How did jazz become rock and roll, and why is rock and roll mostly made of up white men when jazz is a traditional black music that developed during a highly racist time?	31	AskHistorians
I recall reading somewhere that when the concentration camps were liberated, volunteers/nurses and medics tried to help the survivors by doing their make up and hair, to show them they saw them as people. Did this happen in multiple places? How did medics go about treating survivors emotionally?	30	AskHistorians
During the AIDS crisis, did people understand or even know how it was transmitted? Was it thought of a “contagious cancer?” Who was putting out health information about AIDS out, and how long did it take scientists to understand how it spread?	29	AskHistorians
I rewatched the movie “Selma” this afternoon and noticed a character wrote “Negroe” for her race on her voter registration form. How did black people go from calling themselves n*gger, negroe, to well, black?	28	AskHistorians

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