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[WP] As a frustrated film student you decide to write, shoot, and edit movie trailers to movies that don't exist and upload them to Youtube. Six months later a classmate wakes you up with an anxious call - the title to the first trailer is listed as playing next month in a local multiplex theater...

190 upvotes • r/WritingPrompts

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Before the FBI and Hoover, could US criminals escape trial by just crossing state/territory lines?

184 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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Why were the Irish so reviled by the English but not the Scots?

165 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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Are the stories about the spread of the European potato a myth? There seems to be a lot of people doing the exact same thing.

160 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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[WP] "What do we know?" "It's at least 25,000 years old. The structure is made from the bones of 60 wooly mammoths. Based on other digs in the area, it was built by a Paleolithic group." "I'm guessing to serve as homes, temples, or storage?" "We thought so at first, then we found something inside."

155 upvotes • r/WritingPrompts

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After the KGB and Stasi files were released at the end of the Cold War, did Tom Clancy get anything wrong about the Eastern Bloc governments or intelligence services?

152 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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Did the German's consider that their communications had been compromised?

152 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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What were the police like in the USSR?

141 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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DUring WWI, did the British ever consider making a seaborn landing behind the German lines in Belgium to link up with a land attack to break the German flank?

132 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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In WWII, were captured German Army, Navy, Air Force, Waffen-SS and Gestapo personnel put in the same POW camps or were they segregated?

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[WP] As a frustrated film student you decide to write, shoot, and edit movie trailers to movies that don't exist and upload them to Youtube. Six months later a classmate wakes you up with an anxious call - the title to the first trailer is listed as playing next month in a local multiplex theater...	190	WritingPrompts
Before the FBI and Hoover, could US criminals escape trial by just crossing state/territory lines?	184	AskHistorians
Why were the Irish so reviled by the English but not the Scots?	165	AskHistorians
Are the stories about the spread of the European potato a myth? There seems to be a lot of people doing the exact same thing.	160	AskHistorians
[WP] "What do we know?" "It's at least 25,000 years old. The structure is made from the bones of 60 wooly mammoths. Based on other digs in the area, it was built by a Paleolithic group." "I'm guessing to serve as homes, temples, or storage?" "We thought so at first, then we found something inside."	155	WritingPrompts
After the KGB and Stasi files were released at the end of the Cold War, did Tom Clancy get anything wrong about the Eastern Bloc governments or intelligence services?	152	AskHistorians
Did the German's consider that their communications had been compromised?	152	AskHistorians
What were the police like in the USSR?	141	AskHistorians
DUring WWI, did the British ever consider making a seaborn landing behind the German lines in Belgium to link up with a land attack to break the German flank?	132	AskHistorians
In WWII, were captured German Army, Navy, Air Force, Waffen-SS and Gestapo personnel put in the same POW camps or were they segregated?	130	AskHistorians