u/Someone-Somewhere-01

The Acadians were targets of famed expulsion that lead one third of them dying and the vast majority of them deported from their original colonies. And yet, when Britain took hold of the french colony of Canada and the Dutch Cape colony, they didn't do anything similar or at least to that scale to the local colonizer populations. What made the situation unique for the Acadians?

Considering how much the Sahel states are struggling against Jihadis in the modern day, how effective were the French Forces when they were in the region for over 8 years?

It was very common among African countries to change their names upon independence to distance themselves from the colonial past, and yet, not only did Côte d'Ivoire kept their colonial name, but a name given to the region by foreign European Traders to identify the region with their main product during the age of the transatlantic trade, something no other “Coast”, like the Slave or Good Coast, kept upon independence. Why is that?

I just got curious to why the English word for sincerity is the same for the Germanic tribe that created modern France, and if there is a deeper connection between the two.

Myanmar had been in a state of essentially civil war since their indepedence, with many groups like the Kachin Independence Organization or the Wa National Organization controlling parts of the country by decades at this point, and yet we didn't see the country breakdown into multiple independent states like we saw with Yugoslavia, for instance. Why is that and how they did?

While I know his very last years are within the 20 year rule, Jimmy Savile's sexual abuse happened over the course of many decades and it seems that at least somewhat know by certain artist, like John Lydon from Sex Pistols, who said he wanted to kill Savile for what he has done already by October of 1978. How widely know was his sexual misconduct during his life among the entertainment industry? It was something only the high level workers would know or was an industry wide known behavior? And it was more of a rumour for most of the industry or more an open secret?