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General Tso chicken is in almost every Chinese restaurant in the world. Who was the real General Tso?

654 upvotes • Kappa_Sigma_1869

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How different were the English/Scottish/Welsh/Irish before the Roman/Saxon/etc. conquest?

654 upvotes • ch00ch00goesthetrain

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How did the béret hat, striped shirt, pantomime, and accordion music become such popular cliché of "France"?

654 upvotes • Itsalrightwithme

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In one of his books, anthropologist Michael Harner mentions a strange village called Macas, founded in 1599 by survivors of a Spanish massacre. Its inhabitants are all white Spanish-speakers despite it being located deep in the Amazon. Could anyone tell me more about this place and its history?

654 upvotes • soggypoophair

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How can I, an average guy without huge amounts of historical knowledge, learn the truth when the subject is controversial and heavily influenced by propaganda?

654 upvotes • dysrhythmic

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How long have sexual abuse scandals in the Catholic Church been A Thing? Were handsy priests something people talked about in the Middle Ages?

654 upvotes • George4Mayor86

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To circumvent the naval articles of the Versailles treaty, the Weimar government created a dummy company in the Netherlands (IvS) to develop U-Boats. How did the UK, France, or the Netherlands not figure out who was behind the company? Did the Germans use any other dummy companies?

654 upvotes • Lyfjaberging

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How do old buildings end up so deep?

654 upvotes • KrishaCZ

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I'm a regular soldier who got wounded in your time's army. How would I be helped?

653 upvotes • bigsid22

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One more to fill the breach...

653 upvotes • estherke

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General Tso chicken is in almost every Chinese restaurant in the world. Who was the real General Tso?	654	Kappa_Sigma_1869
How different were the English/Scottish/Welsh/Irish before the Roman/Saxon/etc. conquest?	654	ch00ch00goesthetrain
How did the béret hat, striped shirt, pantomime, and accordion music become such popular cliché of "France"?	654	Itsalrightwithme
In one of his books, anthropologist Michael Harner mentions a strange village called Macas, founded in 1599 by survivors of a Spanish massacre. Its inhabitants are all white Spanish-speakers despite it being located deep in the Amazon. Could anyone tell me more about this place and its history?	654	soggypoophair
How can I, an average guy without huge amounts of historical knowledge, learn the truth when the subject is controversial and heavily influenced by propaganda?	654	dysrhythmic
How long have sexual abuse scandals in the Catholic Church been A Thing? Were handsy priests something people talked about in the Middle Ages?	654	George4Mayor86
To circumvent the naval articles of the Versailles treaty, the Weimar government created a dummy company in the Netherlands (IvS) to develop U-Boats. How did the UK, France, or the Netherlands not figure out who was behind the company? Did the Germans use any other dummy companies?	654	Lyfjaberging
How do old buildings end up so deep?	654	KrishaCZ
I'm a regular soldier who got wounded in your time's army. How would I be helped?	653	bigsid22
One more to fill the breach...	653	estherke