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Keep hearing that this will be the closest race in American History. Were there ever close races where the media said the same thing? (self.askhistorians)
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Who first used scorched earth techniques? And was it sucseful? (self.askhistorians)
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How did the germans come up with the blitzkreig? (self.askhistorians)
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Back in the day when a gladiator or some other kind of team won did they go back and destroy stuff? Or is this a new thing? (self.askhistorians)
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How did the Romans even hear about Jesus when other religions they ignored or didn't know about? (self.askhistorians)
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I maybe wrong but didn't Iran hate Afghanistan when the Taliban took over? If so why didn't Iran go in and liberate them? Raising the question could Iran have prevented 911? (self.askhistorians)
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When Japan got Atomic Bombed how do they treat that in history? Or how do Germans teach about the history of WW2? Or did they just kind of wing it afterwards? (self.askhistorians)
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If Hitlers vision was a Jew free Europe. Did he have anything he wanted to do after he accomplished his goal? (self.askhistorians)
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[Meta] Following DonDickle misplaced post to ask for new mods (feddit.org)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/askhistorians
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Context: https://lemmy.world/post/20442786

Can I be a mod and get ride of KarmaBot since it seems like I am the only one posting? I also think I am not alone in the endeavor so we can get at the least a couple mods going on and make it more active

Ping @[email protected]

Anyone else interested?

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Are historically speaking are assassins a real thing? Like lets say I know a guy who will do a job for such and such money. Or are they all just one offs who gets lucky? (self.askhistorians)
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How did Jews having uprisings against the Nazis? Where did they hide? Where did they get gun let alone bullets? (self.askhistorians)
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When Mike created his David was that the ideal of what a man should look like? And did people actually look like that or try to achieve it in his time? (self.askhistorians)
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I see the comparison between Trump and Hitler...did Hitler do the exact same things Trump is laying out with mass deportations tatoos and locking up his enemies? (self.askhistorians)
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According to Romans what did there gods say about Jesus when he was alive? What did their gods say after he died? (self.askhistorians)
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When pictures or videos first came out about the concentration camps of WW2 did people really not believe it? Or was there questions about it? (self.askhistorians)
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What exactly was the reason President Obama could not close Guantanamo Bay? (self.askhistorians)
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As an American, what was going on in the rest of the world while America dealt with stuff at home and in Vietnam? (self.askhistorians)
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I had to take three courses of history and it seems like we never talked about the rest of the world at the time. Was Vietnam and Civil Unrest really that big in America where we thought that is what was all going on and forgot about the rest of the world?

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Were the American founding fathers considered liberal or conservative for their time? (self.askhistorians)
submitted 2 months ago by wantedthefirstaccount to c/askhistorians
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Where did the phrase "I found Jesus" originate from? And how come it has carried on for such a long time?? (self.askhistorians)
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Has there ever been a person try to run for President that had a criminal background? In the US or other countries? (self.askhistorians)
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Historians or Lemmy what are your go to sites besides wikipedia you got to to answer questions? (self.askhistorians)
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How did the marketing of Woodstock lead to a 500,000 person flash mob in the pre-digital era? (self.askhistorians)
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I love askhistorians can all of us get a group together to become mods and ask real questions? Instead of a bot who wants karma? (self.askhistorians)
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Why is this site ran by a karmabot? (self.askhistorians)
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Was Nazi Germany a police state to its self declared "true" citizens, i.e. ethnically pure Germans? (self.askhistorians)
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