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Popular Themes in r/AskHistorians
#1
Advice Requests
: "Why was Scientology allowed to exist in the USA after project Snow White?"
46 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "Historians have said that The Rise and Fall of The Third Reich by William L. Shirer is rather dated and flawed in todays time. What then, is the current go-to book on the Third Reich today?"
1 post
#3
Pain & Anger
: "Why doesn’t France get more credit for the USA independence? "
1 post
#4
Money Talk
: "How much would mathematician Leonard Euler's 1766 annual salary of 3,000 Russian Rubles equate to today? "
1 post
Popular Topics in r/AskHistorians
#1
History
: "I've been told that 600-800 years of European History was trying to get back to where Rome was in the 4th century. How much truth is there to that?"
136 posts
#2
Expensive
14 posts
#3
Money
10 posts
#4
Ww2
: "In Ww2, why did Japan consistently over-estimate the class of US ship they were facing? "
9 posts
#5
War
: "Why was Canada granted independence without a War, while the USA had to fight for it?"
8 posts
#6
Romans
7 posts
#7
Military
: "Why did the United States Military stop using Mash units?"
7 posts
#8
Religion
: "Why do the biggest pagan Religions (Greece/Rome, Norse) have goddesses and female monsters, while Christianity has no female angels/demons?"
7 posts
#9
Made
6 posts
#10
Presidents
6 posts
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