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How did Pan become the basis/embodiment of Satan? 7 Don_Dickle 2 »
Where the baseball players of old really that good considering they took greenies? If we took greenies/steroids out of the equation how would they have faired? 2 Don_Dickle -7 »
Did the forefathers of the US ever write about what they saw in the rev war? Both good and bad? So in the future we would get a viewpoint on how to view it? 2 Don_Dickle 14 »
Before dick wolf before dceu before mcu before tolkien and others, what was the first fiction universe that was created? Or is the idea of a fictional universe a "new age" thing? 13 Don_Dickle 8 »
Why did the US Revolution start? How does it differ from what the Taliban did to Afghanistan besides ideologies? Or any group that took over a country? 2 Don_Dickle 5 »
What happened to the forefathers of the US to make them start using guerilla tactics? Did they just look at the whole thing and say if we keep this up it will be a war of attrition and changed moves? 0 Don_Dickle -5 »
Who or what started the black stereotype? Was it a group or an individual? Why was it an African Americans? Did someone great 1000x grandfather offend someone once? 4 Don_Dickle -10 »
Origin of red wedding 2 Regrettable_incident 5 »
How did Hezbollah integrate itself into southern Lebanon and pretty much become the de facto gov but not the strangle hold? 3 Don_Dickle 9 »
Was the League of Nations really that bad? If the concept was so bad then why a couple years down the road we came up with the UN? Or was it how they were presented? 2 Don_Dickle 5 »
If WW2 is equated with Hitler, then what was going on in Japan? Was it a different war completely or was it one that just falls under the big umbrella of WW2 name? 13 Don_Dickle 20 »
Is Gangs of New York an accurate depiction of how life was back then? Or what parts did it get right or wrong? 0 Don_Dickle 8 »
What caused the Great Chinese Famine? What screwed up stuff happened during it? 1 Don_Dickle 3 »
Why did the French make homosexuality illegal in the Middle East and Britain not far behind them? 1 Don_Dickle 4 »
With so many mental exams Trump has taken and said it's standard. How come Reagan didn't have one to show he had onset Alzheimers? Do we really know who was running the country back then? 1 Don_Dickle 12 »
Has it been narrowed down or proven that John Adams or Alex Hamilton were elsewhere during the signing of the Declaration of Indep? Or is it still up in the air? 2 Don_Dickle 5 »
When did the sexualization of women in comic books take hold? Why was it people seemed more interested in the body instead of the story? Why not the sexualization of men? 17 Don_Dickle 3 »
From 1914 to the 1930s did Carl Jung's Red Book have any societal impact? Were people even aware about it or was it just academics? 1 Don_Dickle 7 »
What happened at the Algiers meeting that pretty much marginalized the minority groups in the Middle East? For ex. The Kurds. 0 Don_Dickle 4 »
Before Hitler became the comparison for anything that was extreme bad or evil by a ruler, who was it before Hitler and why? When was the whole world pretty much like screw this guy? or gal? 9 Don_Dickle 19 »
In heist movies especially Ocean's 11 all the names they need to the heist and other things, were these real things back in the day or just made up for a Trope? 0 Don_Dickle -1 »
What was the deal with Muammar Gaddafi and Codolezza Rice? When he fell they found a shit load of pics of her. Why not Beyonce or AOC or something? 1 Don_Dickle 0 »
When children were working in mines and factories was it looked down upon at the time or did they run out of men and women to do the work? 3 Don_Dickle 22 »
Given Iran held US Citizens hostage, how in the hell was Reagan able to make them do what he wanted? Like releasing them right after he became pres? Did the world fear Ronald that much? 2 Don_Dickle 5 »
What was the deal in the Falkland Islands and Margret Thatcher? Was it just a power play or something? Or was it at the time held some significance? 0 Don_Dickle 6 »
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