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Are there Native American oral traditions that mention Vikings, or are Norse texts all we have to go by?

141 upvotes • HereForTOMT2

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During the unification of Italy, were there any serious proponents to recreating the Roman Republic/Empire in name or construction?

141 upvotes • Divorcefrenchodad

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What caused West Virginia to be a nearly solid blue state since the 1930s to a solid red state by the 1990s?

141 upvotes • swiftessence

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We generally consider names such as "Tyrone", "Deonte" or "LaToya" as distinctly African-American. When and why did such names become prevalent among the African-American ethnic group?

141 upvotes • Soap_MacLavish

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How/Why/When Did Distaste for Cousin-Marriage Arise in Britain (and Europe)?

141 upvotes • Lichen000

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Harun al-Rashid sent Charlemagne an elephant. How did this elephant get to Baghdad in the first place? He had to have been captured in India. Would he have been marched to the coast, then shipped to Basra, and marched to Bagdad? Or would it have been easier to just march him through the Indokush?

141 upvotes • mrs_rabbit_0

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I'm a traveler in late medieval/early renaissance HRE. I was attacked by bandits, managed to fend them off, one of the is now lying unconscious at my feet. What should I do with him?

141 upvotes • k1275

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In Little Women, men write their names in "ball books" or "dance cards" to claim dances with a particular woman. How common was this practice, and was there any sort of ettiquette about it?

141 upvotes • ImpossibleAnger

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The Order of the Dragon was a chivalric order founded in 1408 to defend Christianity and fight its enemies. But elsewhere in Christendom, and in The Bible itself, dragons are a symbol of Satan. What's going on here?

141 upvotes • DNASnatcher

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Is there any validity whatsoever to the idea that Islam was founded as an alt-Christian anti-Nicene 'conspiracy'?

141 upvotes • TheBronzeAgeCollapse

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Title	Upvotes	Author	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
Are there Native American oral traditions that mention Vikings, or are Norse texts all we have to go by?	141	HereForTOMT2
During the unification of Italy, were there any serious proponents to recreating the Roman Republic/Empire in name or construction?	141	Divorcefrenchodad
What caused West Virginia to be a nearly solid blue state since the 1930s to a solid red state by the 1990s?	141	swiftessence
We generally consider names such as "Tyrone", "Deonte" or "LaToya" as distinctly African-American. When and why did such names become prevalent among the African-American ethnic group?	141	Soap_MacLavish
How/Why/When Did Distaste for Cousin-Marriage Arise in Britain (and Europe)?	141	Lichen000
Harun al-Rashid sent Charlemagne an elephant. How did this elephant get to Baghdad in the first place? He had to have been captured in India. Would he have been marched to the coast, then shipped to Basra, and marched to Bagdad? Or would it have been easier to just march him through the Indokush?	141	mrs_rabbit_0
I'm a traveler in late medieval/early renaissance HRE. I was attacked by bandits, managed to fend them off, one of the is now lying unconscious at my feet. What should I do with him?	141	k1275
In Little Women, men write their names in "ball books" or "dance cards" to claim dances with a particular woman. How common was this practice, and was there any sort of ettiquette about it?	141	ImpossibleAnger
The Order of the Dragon was a chivalric order founded in 1408 to defend Christianity and fight its enemies. But elsewhere in Christendom, and in The Bible itself, dragons are a symbol of Satan. What's going on here?	141	DNASnatcher
Is there any validity whatsoever to the idea that Islam was founded as an alt-Christian anti-Nicene 'conspiracy'?	141	TheBronzeAgeCollapse