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After the fall of the USSR, why did Azerbaijan, a Muslim majority nation, align itself with the west and especially Israel?

138 upvotes • Xxxn00bpwnR69xxX

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How did Benjamin Disraeli, a British Jew, manage to become prime minister in an era where Jews were still publicly frowned upon?

138 upvotes • Sam_R_K

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Why do we have lawns?

138 upvotes • cbh3dy

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Considering how many Roman emperors have been assassinated by the Praetorian guard, wouldn't emperors be safer without it?

138 upvotes • SuperStalinMan2

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What prompted the Puritans to give their children such ridiculous names as If-Christ-had-not-died-for-thee-thou-hadst-been-damned?

138 upvotes • EnclavedMicrostate

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An Askreddit comment with 2000+ upvotes advances an old claim that John Wilkes Booth escaped and lived the rest of his life in the South under several aliases. What have historians written concerning this theory? Is it plausible?

138 upvotes • chivestheconquerer

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How did ancient European tribe co-ordinate their massive migrations ? What were the logistics ? How did Germanics, for example, manage to migrate in numbers as high as half a milion like for example the Cimbrian migration of 101 BCE ?

138 upvotes • RutilantBoss

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There's a wikipedia page detailing roman expeditions to sub-saharan africa. Do we know what romans thought about these lands and their inhabitants?

138 upvotes • rogne

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Has there ever been a movement to unite Islam, Christianity and Judaism? If so, did any of its proponents draw a similarity between the Holy Trinity and the three branches of Abrahamism?

138 upvotes • N0thingtosee

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Being stretegically placed between two continents, WW2 Turkey must have felt somewhat paranoid of a possible invasion by all sides. What precautions did it take to minimise the possibility of invasion and if that failed, to fight?

138 upvotes • nuttyalmond

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Title	Upvotes	Author	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
After the fall of the USSR, why did Azerbaijan, a Muslim majority nation, align itself with the west and especially Israel?	138	Xxxn00bpwnR69xxX
How did Benjamin Disraeli, a British Jew, manage to become prime minister in an era where Jews were still publicly frowned upon?	138	Sam_R_K
Why do we have lawns?	138	cbh3dy
Considering how many Roman emperors have been assassinated by the Praetorian guard, wouldn't emperors be safer without it?	138	SuperStalinMan2
What prompted the Puritans to give their children such ridiculous names as If-Christ-had-not-died-for-thee-thou-hadst-been-damned?	138	EnclavedMicrostate
An Askreddit comment with 2000+ upvotes advances an old claim that John Wilkes Booth escaped and lived the rest of his life in the South under several aliases. What have historians written concerning this theory? Is it plausible?	138	chivestheconquerer
How did ancient European tribe co-ordinate their massive migrations ? What were the logistics ? How did Germanics, for example, manage to migrate in numbers as high as half a milion like for example the Cimbrian migration of 101 BCE ?	138	RutilantBoss
There's a wikipedia page detailing roman expeditions to sub-saharan africa. Do we know what romans thought about these lands and their inhabitants?	138	rogne
Has there ever been a movement to unite Islam, Christianity and Judaism? If so, did any of its proponents draw a similarity between the Holy Trinity and the three branches of Abrahamism?	138	N0thingtosee
Being stretegically placed between two continents, WW2 Turkey must have felt somewhat paranoid of a possible invasion by all sides. What precautions did it take to minimise the possibility of invasion and if that failed, to fight?	138	nuttyalmond