r/shittyaskhistory • u/Dry-Egg8573 • 4h ago
Who was Hosanna and why was she in Excelsis?
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Was she friends with Gloria?
r/shittyaskhistory • u/mozucchi • 15h ago
I thought “son of a bitch” was the name of a historical figure 😂
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English isn’t my first language. For the longest time, I thought “son of a bitch” was someone’s name.
I heard it in movies and thought it sounded like “Sonovabitch.” I imagined it was some famous historical figure, and people used his name as an expression or something.
I even thought it sounded like an Eastern European surname, a bit like Milla Jovovich.
Then I saw it written down.
OH.
It’s an insult. 😂
I genuinely thought there was a famous guy named Sonovabitch living somewhere in history.
So, historians of Reddit, what did this man supposedly do to become such a legendary figure?
r/shittyaskhistory • u/zxphn8 • 8h ago
Is there a not so complicated reason the US became a superpower?
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Now I'm not American, but I always see historians say the US became a superpower because of "The Mississippi river" or "large amounts of oil", yet there are other places in the world that had the same kind of thing!
Maybe it's not that complicated. The US is the largest Anglo nation by population, and pretty large by size too, and other European countries didn't really send settlers to their possessions (other than maybe Dutch South Africa) so no wonder the US is a superpower.
If you scaled up most other EU or Anglosphere countries to the size or population of the USA, they would be doing just as well as the US is today.
\>simply be the largest european settler colony
\>win
So I'm not suprised why Russia and a collective EU are in second/third place, as well as China, seeing they have a similar history of innovation and technology as Europe, and the fact that they too are quite large and populous.
Whereas other European colonies of the world were fractured, small, or never were settled by Europeans and their estates, but rather natives and resources exploited instead. And the nations that were never colonised never reached the technological scale of East Asia or Europe, I wouldn't expect Ethiopia or Thailand to have ever had civilisations destined for the big leagues, although it's interesting to see Japan and Turkey have pulled their weight
r/shittyaskhistory • u/Lubas09 • 13h ago
How would you describe the Gaul and Roman situation if it RDR2?
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Anyone got any ideas?
r/shittyaskhistory • u/Snake_Eyes_163 • 1d ago
When Marie Antoinette said, “Let them eat cake” was it a serious suggestion?
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Was this a serious suggestion and she was just so out of touch that she thought it would be possible to provide cake to the starving peasants?
Or was this a casual dismissal of the problem that the peasants had no bread, as if to say, “that’s not my problem.“
r/shittyaskhistory • u/acrus • 1d ago
Was the 1918's Spanish influenzer pandemic worse than the current one? I heard that Gram-positive pneumonia was a common deadly factor. Does it stay the same for Insta- and Telegram-positive influenzers?
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r/shittyaskhistory • u/A-typicalAsshole • 2d ago
Why did Elizabeth Holmes get such a light sentence for erasing half the life in the universe? Will anyone be appropriately punished for Theranos' snap?
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r/shittyaskhistory • u/VeterinarianWarm323 • 2d ago
What's the linguistic connection between Mandarin and Dutch? They're both orange,right?
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r/shittyaskhistory • u/Ravenwight • 2d ago
Who the hell is Victor?
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And why does he keep writing his story?
r/shittyaskhistory • u/Only_Hotel_7221 • 2d ago
What is stopping us from restoring the Roman Empire and making it greater then ever?
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Together this sub can do it.
r/shittyaskhistory • u/vaporwaverhere • 1d ago
Why has theres never been a coup in the USA? Is it because the military and special forces are afraid of civilians armed with pistols?
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r/shittyaskhistory • u/Available-Road131 • 2d ago
Why were town lotteries always in june?
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We know the saying lottery in June corn be heavy soon. Woukdnt it make sense to have it during harvest season though.
r/shittyaskhistory • u/zamroni777 • 2d ago
Mukdent?
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After the 1931 incident, why was Mukden not renamed to Mukdent?
r/shittyaskhistory • u/VeterinarianWarm323 • 3d ago
Did the Poles get into any conflicts with the Telephone Poles and Barber Poles?
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r/shittyaskhistory • u/vaporwaverhere • 2d ago
Who has been the mogul in human history with more aura ( charisma) ? Elon Musk?
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r/shittyaskhistory • u/VeterinarianWarm323 • 3d ago
Han Dynasty, Tang Dynasty, Qing Dynasty... where does Duck Dynasty fit in?
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Also how did they breed Peking ducks?
r/shittyaskhistory • u/Some_Random_Android • 3d ago
How did AI contribute to the collapse of the Roman Empire?
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r/shittyaskhistory • u/VeterinarianWarm323 • 4d ago
When Wilhelm II lost WWI did he make a Wilhelm scream?
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r/shittyaskhistory • u/vaporwaverhere • 4d ago
Were there any weebs in the USA when Pearl Harbor happened? Did they throw everything Japanese to the trash fearful they would be detained and sent to the concentration camps with Japanese people?
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r/shittyaskhistory • u/Misanthropia1777 • 4d ago
What did Rasputin think of the song “Ra-Ra-Rasputin”
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Did he like the song or did he feel like it was an unfair portrayal of him?
r/shittyaskhistory • u/NobodyWorthKnowing2 • 5d ago
Was the Soviet Bloc created before or after the Lego Bloc? Are the two blocs compatible with each other? Which one is more fun to play with?
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r/shittyaskhistory • u/PrinceOfTotalQuiet • 5d ago
Did Pol Pot ever watch Saturday Night Live?
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