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Is the French suppression of minority languages like Occitan an example of cultural genocide?

145 upvotes • [deleted]

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Did a British person who joined the colonial service in the Victorian era have any say in where they would be posted? Or were they completely rolling the dice on ending up in the frozen Yukon or the baking Serengeti?

145 upvotes • George4Mayor86

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Why were swineherds necessary for Roman vineyards and orchards?

145 upvotes • Bisto_Boy

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In the 1960s, South Korea's GDP per capita was smaller than Brazil's; today it's 4x larger. Why could the Asian tigers develop but Latin America couldn't?

145 upvotes • artorijos

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Where does the "don't wear your hat indoors" tradition stem from?

145 upvotes • brnbrn1996

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How did wealthy Antebellum Southern women (or their pastors for that matter) confront - if they did at all - the fact that their husbands, fathers, and most of their sons were regularly committing adultery and sexual assault in their own households?

145 upvotes • screwyoushadowban

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in HBO Rome the characters start talking like the Republic is just dead forever right after the Battle of Pharsalus. is it realistic they would have been that pessimistic that soon?

145 upvotes • grapp

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15 years on, what does Lawrence Wright's 2006 book 'The Looming Tower' get right and wrong about al-Qaeda and 9/11?

145 upvotes • Ganesha811

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I always hear the " traditional " American diet is more suited to manual labor and farm work then most modern, sedentary jobs. So what did the people of the past who had more sitting-down, low activity jobs eat? What was the diet of clerks and monks and scribes and the like?

145 upvotes • The_Whelk

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Whats the truth to Che Guevara's alleged racism, homophobia, and antisemitism?

145 upvotes • eternalkerri

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Title	Upvotes	Author	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
Is the French suppression of minority languages like Occitan an example of cultural genocide?	145	[deleted]
Did a British person who joined the colonial service in the Victorian era have any say in where they would be posted? Or were they completely rolling the dice on ending up in the frozen Yukon or the baking Serengeti?	145	George4Mayor86
Why were swineherds necessary for Roman vineyards and orchards?	145	Bisto_Boy
In the 1960s, South Korea's GDP per capita was smaller than Brazil's; today it's 4x larger. Why could the Asian tigers develop but Latin America couldn't?	145	artorijos
Where does the "don't wear your hat indoors" tradition stem from?	145	brnbrn1996
How did wealthy Antebellum Southern women (or their pastors for that matter) confront - if they did at all - the fact that their husbands, fathers, and most of their sons were regularly committing adultery and sexual assault in their own households?	145	screwyoushadowban
in HBO Rome the characters start talking like the Republic is just dead forever right after the Battle of Pharsalus. is it realistic they would have been that pessimistic that soon?	145	grapp
15 years on, what does Lawrence Wright's 2006 book 'The Looming Tower' get right and wrong about al-Qaeda and 9/11?	145	Ganesha811
I always hear the " traditional " American diet is more suited to manual labor and farm work then most modern, sedentary jobs. So what did the people of the past who had more sitting-down, low activity jobs eat? What was the diet of clerks and monks and scribes and the like?	145	The_Whelk
Whats the truth to Che Guevara's alleged racism, homophobia, and antisemitism?	145	eternalkerri