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I'm nearsighted. I've worn glasses for the last 25 years of my life and I'm useless with out them. So I got to wondering. How would a person, with my sight, manage 100 years ago? 500 years ago? 1000 years ago?

142 upvotes • Fildo_Fappings

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What made the Angles, Saxons and Jutes decide to leave their homelands and settle in Britain?

142 upvotes • mistergookey

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June 6th, 1944 and June 15th, 1944 - Why Does The War in Europe During WWII Overshadow the Pacific War?

142 upvotes • Sterling_Mace

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How was the literacy in Roman Empire?

142 upvotes • voxpupil

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According to QI, Leonardo Da Vinci's nephew was raised in the same way as Leonardo in the hope of producing another genius, and it sort of worked...

142 upvotes • nevercomment

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Why the reverence for the Founding Fathers?

142 upvotes • estherke

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Does the knowledge that boiling water can sanitize it predate germ theory? If so, what did people think was the reason it made the water potable?

142 upvotes • SkipThisAdNow

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Why did the World Fairs lose popularity?

142 upvotes • toga-Blutarsky

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It is the year 1861. Tsar Alexander II has just issued the Emancipation Reform. I am a serf. How do I hear about the Reform and how, practically, is my life changed?

142 upvotes • NuclearZeitgeist

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Back when schools were segregated for blacks and whites, which schools did other races go to?

142 upvotes • peniscockdickboner

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I'm nearsighted. I've worn glasses for the last 25 years of my life and I'm useless with out them. So I got to wondering. How would a person, with my sight, manage 100 years ago? 500 years ago? 1000 years ago?	142	Fildo_Fappings
What made the Angles, Saxons and Jutes decide to leave their homelands and settle in Britain?	142	mistergookey
June 6th, 1944 and June 15th, 1944 - Why Does The War in Europe During WWII Overshadow the Pacific War?	142	Sterling_Mace
How was the literacy in Roman Empire?	142	voxpupil
According to QI, Leonardo Da Vinci's nephew was raised in the same way as Leonardo in the hope of producing another genius, and it sort of worked...	142	nevercomment
Why the reverence for the Founding Fathers?	142	estherke
Does the knowledge that boiling water can sanitize it predate germ theory? If so, what did people think was the reason it made the water potable?	142	SkipThisAdNow
Why did the World Fairs lose popularity?	142	toga-Blutarsky
It is the year 1861. Tsar Alexander II has just issued the Emancipation Reform. I am a serf. How do I hear about the Reform and how, practically, is my life changed?	142	NuclearZeitgeist
Back when schools were segregated for blacks and whites, which schools did other races go to?	142	peniscockdickboner