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What have West Africans historically had to say about Back-to-Africa movements? Have they supported it, or did they find it silly? Or worse, insulting?

5484 upvotes • mikitacurve

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How did the modern genre of fantasy become so heavily associated with the medieval period?

5483 upvotes • Theoson

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Why did certain religious folk just stop updating their fashion at a certain time? Hasidic Jews, The Pope, etc. When and why did their dress switch from contemporary to traditional?

5474 upvotes • Robert_Muldoon_hat

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Korean food is notoriously spicy, which is a bit out of place considering its cold climate and the fact that its neighbors in (northern) China and Japan don't eat nearly as much spicy food. Why and how did Korean cuisine specifically get so spicy?

5463 upvotes • Xxxn00bpwnR69xxX

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I'm the wife of a slaveowner in the southern US in the 1850s. If my husband decided to have his way with a female slave, would I consider it cheating/adultery?

5458 upvotes • SilvioGualtieri

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Did people in the middle ages ever ACTUALLY plan battles using miniatures on top of a big table map?

5447 upvotes • Yazman

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My grandmother once said that, as a young woman in 1930s New York, she would chat with her friends in French when their husbands were around, because all the young ladies in her social circle learned French in school but all the young men learned German or Russian instead. Was this a common split?

5443 upvotes • [deleted]

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Did people cut spices with something to add weight, like they do with drugs today?

5435 upvotes • ivdza012

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Mexico used to be a very militaristic nation just 100 years ago, most people had guns and soldiers were idolized in the media, but now almost no mexican knows how to shoot a gun, and soldiers are almost absent in all local media, how and why did this happen?

5431 upvotes • Frigorifico

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Before Christianity, Greeks buried their dead with coins in their mouths to pay the ferryman in the afterlife. But coins were only invented at the end of the 7th century BCE. Was this a tradition that postdated the invention of coinage, or an existing tradition adapted to include coinage?

5431 upvotes • EnclavedMicrostate

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Title	Upvotes	Author	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
What have West Africans historically had to say about Back-to-Africa movements? Have they supported it, or did they find it silly? Or worse, insulting?	5484	mikitacurve
How did the modern genre of fantasy become so heavily associated with the medieval period?	5483	Theoson
Why did certain religious folk just stop updating their fashion at a certain time? Hasidic Jews, The Pope, etc. When and why did their dress switch from contemporary to traditional?	5474	Robert_Muldoon_hat
Korean food is notoriously spicy, which is a bit out of place considering its cold climate and the fact that its neighbors in (northern) China and Japan don't eat nearly as much spicy food. Why and how did Korean cuisine specifically get so spicy?	5463	Xxxn00bpwnR69xxX
I'm the wife of a slaveowner in the southern US in the 1850s. If my husband decided to have his way with a female slave, would I consider it cheating/adultery?	5458	SilvioGualtieri
Did people in the middle ages ever ACTUALLY plan battles using miniatures on top of a big table map?	5447	Yazman
My grandmother once said that, as a young woman in 1930s New York, she would chat with her friends in French when their husbands were around, because all the young ladies in her social circle learned French in school but all the young men learned German or Russian instead. Was this a common split?	5443	[deleted]
Did people cut spices with something to add weight, like they do with drugs today?	5435	ivdza012
Mexico used to be a very militaristic nation just 100 years ago, most people had guns and soldiers were idolized in the media, but now almost no mexican knows how to shoot a gun, and soldiers are almost absent in all local media, how and why did this happen?	5431	Frigorifico
Before Christianity, Greeks buried their dead with coins in their mouths to pay the ferryman in the afterlife. But coins were only invented at the end of the 7th century BCE. Was this a tradition that postdated the invention of coinage, or an existing tradition adapted to include coinage?	5431	EnclavedMicrostate