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Why do assassins like John Wikes Booth use his butt to kill Lincoln?

ASSassins throughout history have always used their big plumb booties to kill people. From Abraham Lincoln to Leon Trotisky. I always wonder why this was the case. Aren't there better weapons out there?

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u/PerfectAdvertising41 — 5 hours ago

Really, why did Hitler have his dog poisoned ?

Hitler , his dog , along with other Nazis holed up in the bunker in Berlin as Soviet troops advanced.

It was too dangerous for the dog to venture out to do it's business. So, the dog had to poo and piss inside the closed bunker.

The smell must have been awful ! I am suggesting that Hitler had enough of it and decided his dog had to die.

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u/Accurate-Run5370 — 1 day ago

If Marie Antoinette actually really never said, "Let them eat cake", what led up to the French Revolution and Robespierre?

Did she ask them to eat austrian food?

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u/tisto2 — 3 days ago

What’s your favourite rome ?

  1. Rome

  2. Constantinople

  3. Moscow ( third rome )

  4. Bucharest ( ROMEania )

  5. Aachen ( Kingdom of the franks, obvious successor )

  6. Vienna ( Holy roman empire, obvious successor )

  7. Damascus ( southern roman empire )

  8. Ctesiphon ( Julius Xerxes )

  9. Macedonia ( Alexander the roman )

  10. Carthage

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u/kroolframer1 — 3 days ago

The soldiers that burned the White House during the War of 1812 were sent from Britain's colonial holdings in Florida and the Caribbean. Did Canada take the blame because they knew this was one of Florida Man's more embarrassing moments and they were nice enough to take some of that baggage?

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u/GPFlag_Guy1 — 3 days ago

Why didn’t Conan have red hair or an Irish accent in ANY of the movies? Is Oliver Stone stupid when it comes to history?

u/No-Flight-4214 — 3 days ago

Why Does Canada Celebrate July 4th on July 1st? Is It the Metric System?

I know the metric system is why they have Kanadian Miles, which are only worth about 60 cents--kind of like the Canadian Dollar. I think that's why Canadian Thanksgiving is in October--because it's month 10.

Degrees Canadian are harder to understand, and they're a lot harder to convert to the Freedom degrees we use here, but I'm told that's all metric too.

But I don't see how the 4th falls on the 1st--unless it's because 1 is metric too!

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u/GregHullender — 4 days ago