r/AskHistorians • u/Georgy_K_Zhukov Moderator | Dueling | Modern Warfare & Small Arms • Apr 04 '19
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u/Georgy_K_Zhukov Moderator | Dueling | Modern Warfare & Small Arms Apr 04 '19
/u/y_sengaku answered "I read something referencing the "Mortgage of Denmark", where a King basically 'sold' different parts of the country to German rulers and subsequent Kings had to buy the land back. Is there somewhere I can learn more about how this happened? How does a country mortgage its territory?"
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u/Georgy_K_Zhukov Moderator | Dueling | Modern Warfare & Small Arms Apr 04 '19
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u/Georgy_K_Zhukov Moderator | Dueling | Modern Warfare & Small Arms Apr 04 '19
/u/mikedash answered "Every once in a while a website will claim that teeth extracted from dead soldiers at Waterloo supplied dentures across Europe for years. Is this a myth, and moreover why does it seem only Waterloo gets this treatment, as opposed to bigger Napoleonic battles like Wagram or Leipzig?"
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u/Georgy_K_Zhukov Moderator | Dueling | Modern Warfare & Small Arms Apr 04 '19
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u/Georgy_K_Zhukov Moderator | Dueling | Modern Warfare & Small Arms Apr 04 '19
/u/hannahstohelit answered "In the 1920s to the 1930s, some people thought Ivey League schools used race to limit the amount of admitted Jewish students, was this true, if so what (if any) action was taken against the colleges because of the racial discrimination?"