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[Meta] Following DonDickle misplaced post to ask for new mods

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 [@Don_Dickle@lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world/u/Don_Dickle) 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?
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How did Jews having uprisings against the Nazis? Where did they hide? Where did they get gun let alone bullets?
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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?
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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?
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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?
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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?
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What exactly was the reason President Obama could not close Guantanamo Bay?
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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?

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?
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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??
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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?
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Historians or Lemmy what are your go to sites besides wikipedia you got to to answer questions?
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How did the marketing of Woodstock lead to a 500,000 person flash mob in the pre-digital era?
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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?
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Why is this site ran by a karmabot?
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Was Nazi Germany a police state to its self declared "true" citizens, i.e. ethnically pure Germans?
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I am a Roman citizen captured by pirates and sold into slavery in Corinth. Lucius Mummius and his army have just entered the city (and will go on to destroy it): what's going to happen to me?
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Why did Romans build freestanding, commemorative arches?
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What did the average German know about the Holocaust?
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What is the history of the N word besides the confederates of the civil war in the US?
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In the story of Jesus' death and resurrection, he is buried in a tomb that has a stone door, which is "rolled away" after the third day. Would this have been the normal interment of a crucified corpse
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Who opposed George Washington becoming president?
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How did the North and South become so different it led to a civil war?
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How do historical parts of active cities end up so far underground?

I was thinking about Rome and there is one place that’s a 17th century church, on top of 14th century monastery on top of a 1st century apartment. And if you go to the Forum section it’s visibly below the surface of the current city. For the fact that the city has been active for thousands of years, how do things end up getting buried? Does that mean the elevation of the city is higher now than it was in 0 AD?

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The famous Italian artist Caravaggio was a criminal who was constantly getting in to street fights in 16th century Rome. He even murdered a man in a dispute over a tennis match. Was this kind of stree

The famous Italian artist Caravaggio was a criminal who was constantly getting in to street fights in 16th century Rome. He even murdered a man in a dispute over a tennis match. Was this kind of street justice the norm in Rome at the time with arguments between men being settled by a sword fights?

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When Bakhtiyar Khilji destroyed Nalanda University in 1193, were there really 9 million books that were burned, as Google suggests, or is this misinformation?
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Wikipedia claims that the Nazis wanted to practically enslave a quarter of British male population Where is the source for this claim, where can I find more about this?
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Did Attila the “Hun,”’s empire really extend into what is now the Netherlands and Denmark?
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Why did Russia retain the hammer and sickle-emblem from late 1991 to late 1993 despite the collapse of Communism?
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Athletic-type injuries in the ancient or medieval world (torn rotator cuff, herniated disc, etc): what is known about treatment? Is their impact on people’s lives documented? Was prevention taught?
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The USA is one of the most prolific nations in the Olympics. What factors have led to this dominance?
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How did "white people" become one race in the United States when there used to be so many nationality distinctions?
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Were German war cemeteries controversial in the aftermath of the world wars?
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Was Benjamin Franklin's initial opposition to innoculation rooted in the African origins of the practice?
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How did the Ku Klux Klan operate in Louisiana despite the large Catholic community there?
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Republican Oliver Cromwell publicly refused the crown but as sole ruler lived in the royal palaces, had a regal funeral, & was succeeded by his son. Did any contemporary critics or radical republicans
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What hairstyles were common among male nobles in the middle ages?

This question is probably very broad. But I really mostly would be interested in a website or source that collects various styles, with pictures. And specifically not modernised versions, but ideally historically accurate.

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What is the history of the N word? When did it first appear and why did it spread? And how come it seems to come from Americans south?
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[Pre-History] What were the major predators of pre-historical humans?

Or closely related homonids?

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