/u/saddetective87's posts

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Is there any historical evidence or myths that Queen Elizabeth I had illegitimate children and never acknowledged them?	31	AskHistorians
Were the Roman Senate and the Plebeian Assembly effective as a form of government in the Late Republic?	31	AskHistorians
[WP] The rebellion has finished the battle in the Dark Lord's Great Hall, vile and valiant fallen alike. The rebels approach the still-living head of the Dark Lord, defiant to the last. As they set fire to him, the Dark Lord screams, "Death is but a door, time is but a window, I'll be back!"	30	WritingPrompts
[WP] The year was 1883. In a south Romanian village, three men and a girl were gathered in an old crypt. They watched fascinated as a wooden stake was driven through the heart of a vampire. But the strange, unwinking eyes of a black cat watched their efforts derisively...	30	WritingPrompts
[WP] Due to your mystical temperament, Friday 13th has always been disastrous, so brewing a potion of liquid luck seemed like a short-term solution or possibly a cure. But something is wrong. Twenty minutes after taking it, you've been dumped, fired, bitten twice, and an aircraft hit your house!	29	WritingPrompts
[WP] You signed onto the Space Fleet thinking that you were going to see new life, but this three-year trip to seed ocean worlds has been a bust. They were supposed to get 5 million years of aquatic evolution in three years. Now? Nothing. What is that blip on the sonar? It's getting bigger...	29	WritingPrompts
[WP] You didn't know what it was offhand, but you knew what had been destroyed in the Great Burn. Books with no schematics inside, stretched cloth with remnants of pigment, strange stone reliefs of people from the past. The elders had called it 'art', and it was your job to find what was left.	29	WritingPrompts
Before the US Civil War, what were the factors that promoted industrialization in the Northern but did not promote it in the South?	28	AskHistorians
[WP] As a film buff you couldn't believe what you found. It was the biggest set ever built for a Hollywood film in the 1920s, and then it was buried in the sands of the California Coast. You embarked on a decades-long attempt to excavate it, and now you found out why it was buried.	28	WritingPrompts
Did the Persians have plans to advance into Africa? Did they know about Carthage, Spain, and Italy?	28	AskHistorians

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