/u/redmob5's posts in /r/askhistorians
TIL that between 1857 and 1858 there was a war in Utah between the US Government and Mormon rebels that involved armed skirmishes and several massacres. What happened and why have I never heard of this before?
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How and how often were those fancy, beautiful, expensive dresses and clothes washed, say during Renaissance- or Enlightenment-period Europe?
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Is it true that the Germans lost more men attacking Pavlov's House at Stalingrad, than they did during their entire push on Paris?
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How did soldiers/engineers during WWI (Western Front) go about putting the barbed wire and the mines and other equipment into No Man's Land? How did they survive those ordeals if the enemy could just shoot them down?
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How did Scandinavia transition from a loose collection of many 'states' (couldn't think of a better word) under the rule of jarls, chiefs and nobility to a few significantly large monarchies, such as Swedish Empire and Denmark?
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What do we know about the Viking exploration of North America? What are the facts? What do we speculate and assume?
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