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What is the true history of Robert Johnson (the one who sold his soul at the crossroad)? How did the tale get started? Did he really pick up playing the guitar over night or something? 0 Don_Dickle 9 »
When in time did Piracy (actual pirates) become a thing to be respected? What is America's love affair with pirates like Blackbeard and other's in media? But tech piracy is frowned upon? 4 Don_Dickle 4 »
What is the history of the K word to describe Jewish people? I can kind well not really get the.....not actually I don't get any antisemetic terms or their history. 6 Don_Dickle -1 »
Was Christopher Reeve's accident and deteriorating state a hard hit for adults and kids when it happened? Considering he was Superman to us all? What about George Reeves death? 7 Don_Dickle 9 »
What was the fallout from Metallica and Napster? Did it actually change anything? Or just spawn different sides of the same coin? 12 Don_Dickle 14 »
Does anyone have any thoughts on Robert Greene as a historian? For ex. his 48 Law of Power be citable? Or is he too far out there? 1 Don_Dickle 0 »
What did the Roman's do to predict the weather? Or did they just take it day by day? Did this ever effect any of their wars? 8 Don_Dickle 5 »
When the fore fathers came up with free speech did they ever think in the future that we could not say, I want to kill the president? What is the history of that phrase? Why just that phrase? 5 Don_Dickle -3 »
If Julian the Apostate ruled Rome for longer, did he have any plans he wanted implemented? 0 Don_Dickle 5 »
How far back did the oppression of the Kurds start? And why did it start? 0 Don_Dickle 2 »
Why did the League of Nations not work out but the UN did? 3 Don_Dickle 2 »
Is Dennis Hoppers monologue actual true here? If not what is the real history behind it? (www.youtube.com) 0 Don_Dickle 0 »
What was Palestine like before Israel and WW2? 7 Don_Dickle 8 »
During the Great Depression, with so many people in need, did theft and stealing rise or did it remain the same? Why did it go that way? 2 Don_Dickle 13 »
Did the average German Citizen know what the government was doing to the Jews? Did they care or was it pretty much a media blackout like the US is doing to supposed "illegal" immigrants? 7 Don_Dickle 22 »
Was the "coat hanger in the back alley's" real for abortion at that time? Did it actually have some fact to it? 4 Don_Dickle 12 »
The religious people grip about suicide bombers on 9/11 and blowing themselves up in the middle east. Did people have a thing against Kamikaze pilots being suicide bombers in PH? 2 Don_Dickle 4 »
Was Pearl Harbor as big in the scope of things compared to 9-11? Where people glued to radio's and news papers like we were to tv's and internet? 0 Don_Dickle 7 »
At the height of the Roman Empire were there any STI's or STD's? If so how did they take care of them.? 1 Don_Dickle 5 »
If the US at the time was in a state of isolationism why did we get involved in the European theater of war instead of just going after the Japanese? 8 Don_Dickle 9 »
How did the installation of Christianity as the state religion influence the collapse of the Western Roman Empire? 3 arotrios 16 »
When and why did prostitution become illegal in most of the world? and why? 0 Don_Dickle 10 »
What is the history of the Haqqani network? How did it begin and why did it get involved in the opium trade? And why so influential? 0 Don_Dickle 6 »
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