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Why do some male names (like Tracy, Kelly or Madison) turn into female names over time?

634 upvotes • Atersed

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The given name Adolf, which used to be fairly common among Germanic peoples, seems to have fallen (justifiably) into almost total disuse in the years since WWII. We're there any other times in history when one universally reviled person "ruined" a popular name?

634 upvotes • Lynx_Rufus

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Has any US President ignored a Supreme Court ruling?

634 upvotes • SGCleveland

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Assata Shakur once said, “Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.” Is this true?

634 upvotes • electricmastro

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How did the economy in urban areas of Anarchist Spain function? Did Capitalist mechanisms (price system, credit, piece wages etc) prevail or did they succeed in abolishing it?

634 upvotes • Shashank1000

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Was there a preferred theater of WW2 to be assigned to if you were an average US Army infantryman?

634 upvotes • Foot-throw-222

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A young Julius Caesar took on crippling debt he could never hope to repay to narrowly win the vote to become Pontifex Maximus. What if he lost? Was there a Roman debtors' prison? Declared bankrupt? Would he be exiled? What comes next?

634 upvotes • shallowblue

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Was the American Civil War a “big deal” to the rest of the world as it was transpiring? Or were foreign powers for the most part indifferent towards it?

634 upvotes • Falcriots

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How did the 1978-1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran impact the various communities of religious minorities living within Iran such as the Zoroastrians, Jews, Mandaeans, Bahá’ís, Yarsanis and Christian sects such as the Armenian, Assyrian and Chaldean Christians?

634 upvotes • JustinJSrisuk

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Someone on an Ask Reddit thread claimed research indicates that prior to Ptolemy VIII exiling academics from the Library of Alexandra, "they were only about ~300 years from full on industrialization." Is this true? If so, where can I learn more about it?

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Why do some male names (like Tracy, Kelly or Madison) turn into female names over time?	634	Atersed
The given name Adolf, which used to be fairly common among Germanic peoples, seems to have fallen (justifiably) into almost total disuse in the years since WWII. We're there any other times in history when one universally reviled person "ruined" a popular name?	634	Lynx_Rufus
Has any US President ignored a Supreme Court ruling?	634	SGCleveland
Assata Shakur once said, “Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.” Is this true?	634	electricmastro
How did the economy in urban areas of Anarchist Spain function? Did Capitalist mechanisms (price system, credit, piece wages etc) prevail or did they succeed in abolishing it?	634	Shashank1000
Was there a preferred theater of WW2 to be assigned to if you were an average US Army infantryman?	634	Foot-throw-222
A young Julius Caesar took on crippling debt he could never hope to repay to narrowly win the vote to become Pontifex Maximus. What if he lost? Was there a Roman debtors' prison? Declared bankrupt? Would he be exiled? What comes next?	634	shallowblue
Was the American Civil War a “big deal” to the rest of the world as it was transpiring? Or were foreign powers for the most part indifferent towards it?	634	Falcriots
How did the 1978-1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran impact the various communities of religious minorities living within Iran such as the Zoroastrians, Jews, Mandaeans, Bahá’ís, Yarsanis and Christian sects such as the Armenian, Assyrian and Chaldean Christians?	634	JustinJSrisuk
Someone on an Ask Reddit thread claimed research indicates that prior to Ptolemy VIII exiling academics from the Library of Alexandra, "they were only about ~300 years from full on industrialization." Is this true? If so, where can I learn more about it?	634	SirFuente