askhistorians

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Given that the later Ottomans seemed to look down strongly on their nomadic or peasant/"Turk" subjects, what did they make of their dynasty's own nomadic origins? Did they downplay the nomadic/semi-nomadic background of their predecessors?	3
How and when did "empire" transform from a narrow term for Christian/Greek/Roman legitimacy to a broad type of state organization? And other questions.	3
Was there a precedent when Irish Republicans ran (and successfully elected) imprisoned candidates for Westminster during the 1980s or was this a completely new innovation? Could Bobby Sands actually have been seated had he survived his imprisonment?	3
Did the demographics/wealth level of visitors to national parks change with the proliferation of the automobile in the U.S., especially in Western states/territories? Did many people even visit far off (from Eastern cities) national parks before cars became affordable?	3
Why are the Eastern churches, both E & O Orthodoxies & Eastern Catholic, named & organized on national & sometimes today explicitly nationalist basis? Why are they nominally churches of peoples (and now mostly nation-states) vs. universal (lower c catholic) or anything else?	3
The French military operated state-run brothels until 1995. Was the general public aware of their existence in those last few decades? What was the public attitude towards prostitution (state-sanctioned and general) & questions of exploitation, the final brothel being in a colonial possession?	3
Were most of the big players in organized crime during prohibition part of long-standing pre-Volstead crime networks or were many "new men" (and women), especially outside of Chicago/New York?	3
Was there any significant contribution to the sciences (especially in biology or the social sciences) of Fascist (specifically Nazi) and para-Fascist figures in the 30s and 40s that later proved questionable? Did any scientific fields/sub-fields undergo "de-Nazification" after the War?	3
Thousands of Late Medieval/Early Modern Christians & Muslims were enslaved & then ransomed by corsairs of the opposite faith. Was there any anxiety in Christendom about recently ransomed Christians (or Jews) being crypto-Muslims/"turning Turk" & to what degree was the focus of that anxiety gendered?	3
Why is arms & equipment procurement so messy? How long has American arms procurement been messy? Were people lamenting over (equivalent) billions spent on decades-long R&D programs only to result in minor incremental improvements & cancellations back in 1922?	3

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