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After the Zimmerman Telegram was made public, did Mexico have anything to say on the matter?

139 upvotes • tactics14

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Was Italy considered a Great Power in WW2?

139 upvotes • Feezec

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Could someone try their hand at explaining in very ELI5 terms, what happened when Lenin died and how Stalin became the undisputed leader of Russia?

139 upvotes • passthesauerkraut

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One of the common destinations for Native American slaves sold abroad were the slave galleys in Marseilles. What would the conditions have been like for those toiling in the Mediterranean slave galleys?

139 upvotes • anthropology_nerd

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Did Mexico have any chance of winning the Mexican-American War?

139 upvotes • ILikeMonitorLizards

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What was the electric eel called when electricity was not common knowledge, or by peoples who did not know of electricity?

139 upvotes • Lithide

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I'm the wife of a wealthy land owner in 13th century Europe. My husband is dead (murder, misadventure, illness, war, etc), what happens to my land/wealth?

139 upvotes • notnotbrowsing

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Where does the idea of the satanic ritual with the virgin sacrifice come from?

139 upvotes • discworldian

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Why were sentences in the 1600s-1700s so long as to be almost unreadable today?

139 upvotes • s_soup

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What specifically led to the collapse of the Soviet Union? Was it inevitable?

139 upvotes • SLEDGE_KING

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Title	Upvotes	Author	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
After the Zimmerman Telegram was made public, did Mexico have anything to say on the matter?	139	tactics14
Was Italy considered a Great Power in WW2?	139	Feezec
Could someone try their hand at explaining in very ELI5 terms, what happened when Lenin died and how Stalin became the undisputed leader of Russia?	139	passthesauerkraut
One of the common destinations for Native American slaves sold abroad were the slave galleys in Marseilles. What would the conditions have been like for those toiling in the Mediterranean slave galleys?	139	anthropology_nerd
Did Mexico have any chance of winning the Mexican-American War?	139	ILikeMonitorLizards
What was the electric eel called when electricity was not common knowledge, or by peoples who did not know of electricity?	139	Lithide
I'm the wife of a wealthy land owner in 13th century Europe. My husband is dead (murder, misadventure, illness, war, etc), what happens to my land/wealth?	139	notnotbrowsing
Where does the idea of the satanic ritual with the virgin sacrifice come from?	139	discworldian
Why were sentences in the 1600s-1700s so long as to be almost unreadable today?	139	s_soup
What specifically led to the collapse of the Soviet Union? Was it inevitable?	139	SLEDGE_KING