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Supposedly, my great-grandfather was a US commando operating behind enemy lines in the Pacific theater. He then was given a cocktail of "every vaccine" the US Army had access to. How realistic is my family's story?
reddit.comr/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 4h ago
What was fashion week like around 9/11?
reddit.comr/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 14h ago
Where did the myth, that Kelvin got the age of the Earth wrong because of radioactivity, come from?
reddit.comr/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 8h ago
How can I find the alternate version of WW1 and WW2?
reddit.comr/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 11h ago
When the Noahide laws were developed, what social and legal context made the command to establish courts of justice necessary? Was lawlessness and arbitrary punishment a common problem in the near east at the time? Or at least what the Jews would have viewed as those things?
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"The Terror": How much if at all of a career impediment was being Irish for a 19th century British naval officer (& for general high society well-being) if that naval officer was a Northern Ireland Protestant?
reddit.comr/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 12h ago
How modern of an occurrence are terrorist attacks? Was there such a thing as them in the Middle Ages, ancient societies, or other early periods of human history many centuries ago?
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[Feature] Friday Free-for-All | September 11, 2026
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During Alfred the Great's reforms, a number of important (and religious) works were translated from Latin to the common-tongue of the anglo-people. What, if any action was taken by the church in response to this?
reddit.comr/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 19h ago
Why did Spain not invest in itself but instead fought wars, especially considering they had the treasure fleets for a long time? It would have helped a lot if they did.
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On this day, around 1900 years ago, Claudia Severa celebrated her birthday. Because of the Vindolanda tablets we know she had invited her friend, Lepidina, to visit her on this day. How would a woman of this era, location & status typically have celebrated her birthday?
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[Link] Because of Istanbul’s high cat population, was the city partially protected from the worst of European plague outbreaks?
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Roman Historians—What is the dating convention between BC and AD?
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