/u/saddetective87's posts

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[WP] You got the house in your parent's will, so the lawyer gave you an envelope with a key and a note inside saying "For the attic". As far as you knew there was no attic. You open it and find journals, dossiers, files, and bags of money, weapons, clothes, and passports with your parent's photos...	9	WritingPrompts
[WP] Being the new super of an old apartment building, you need to survey the building to prepare for the inspector. You find a sealed storage room filled with forgotten luggage from old tenants. You open them one at a time, finding yellowed photographs, old letters, and journals - whole lives.	9	WritingPrompts
Was the Roman conquest of Britain profitable to the empire?	9	AskHistorians
[WP] "When we pass beyond the lights of a precinct station, we go into another world. A place beyond right and wrong."	9	WritingPrompts
I know that we try and avoid 'what if' scenarios here, but did Kaiser Wilhelm II show any desire or even willingness to return to Germany and rule if any of the plots against Hitler had succeeded?	9	AskHistorians
[WP] In the year 1938, a young policeman on special duties was clubbed and thrown into the dark waters of New York’s vicious dockland. Miraculously, he lived but was condemned forever to a wheelchair. His twisted thoughts turned to the occult...	9	WritingPrompts
I am aware that the Roman Empire had border garrisons, frontier outposts, and Legion HQs, but how did the Republic defend their frontiers (before and after the Marian reforms)?	9	AskHistorians
[WP] Your quiet seaside vacation takes an unsettling turn when a chance meeting with a neighbour awakens memories from your past. You find your old instrument and start playing music again, the pitch and flow of the cryptic notes from the old sheet music you wrote arrange the memories for you...	9	WritingPrompts
[WP] The tunnel had been closed up long ago for safety reasons, and no one had ventured inside for years. But it was sealed not to keep people out, but to keep something in. And that something has gotten lonely over the years… lonely and hungry. And now it’s coming to the surface to feed...	9	WritingPrompts
Did the Romans and Greeks had methods of dealing with what we know now as sexually transmitted diseases?	9	AskHistorians

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