/u/rodiraskol's posts in /r/AskHistorians
Why has incest become so strongly associated (at least in pop culture) with hicks/hillbillies/rednecks?
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How have the requirements, both written and unwritten, for being commissioned as an officer in the American military evolved over the course of its history?
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Wikipedia states that when Stalin died, Enver Hoxha "assembled the entire population in the capital's largest square featuring a statue of Stalin" and made them recite a 2000 word oath. It's not clear what "entire population" refers to. Was it of the entire country? Or just of the capital?
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How did Finland, Hungary and Estonia come to adopt Finno-Uralic languages when they are surrounded by Indo-European speakers?
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What languages would members of the House of Romanov have been fluent in around the time of WWI? Would many of them have spoken English?
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When did the use of the "n-word" by an elected official at the state or federal level become unacceptable?
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In "American Gangster", a biopic of Frank Lucas, there is a scene where Lucas is in Indochina to meet with a heroin supplier. When he gets to the poppy fields, his guide says that "this area is locked down by the Kuomintang, Chiang Kai-Shek's defeated army." Is this Hollywood or fiction?
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What have been the requirements for being commissioned as an officer in the U.S. military over the past two and a half centuries? How have they changed over the years?
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