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Is the stress of being “on time” a modern concept?

3899 upvotes • natcat901

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Completely random, I’m a fan of r/powerwashingporn but it has me thinking... what did the ancients do to power wash all their marble and granite monoliths, coliseums and pyramids? What sort of building maintenance schematics did they have?

3898 upvotes • Addledbyatmosphere

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Marcus Aurelius, one of the "five good emperors" and author of 'Meditations', is known to have been addicted to opium; was opium use common among the elites at the time? Would the general public have had access to it? Was there any stigma attached to its use or the dependence on it?

3898 upvotes • td4999

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Special Feature: Holocaust Remembrance Day – to remember and pay respect to those who perished and those who survived.

3897 upvotes • commiespaceinvader

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I am a random Praetorian Guard in 41 CE. How much notice do I have that we are about to assassinate Emperor Caligula and replace him with Claudius?

3897 upvotes • Tularemia

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In Ken Burn's The War, an American WWII Veteran recounts a story of how a captured German POW was very knowledgeable of his small city in Connecticut because before he went to the front, he was "in training for the administration of the territories". What do we know about Nazi plans for America?

3896 upvotes • throwawayJames516

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Did the average American expect war as a possible result of the 1860 election?

3891 upvotes • AugustusKhan

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Black soldiers ordered to guard supply depot so German spies would have no way to infiltrate?

3890 upvotes • blueblarg

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In the Disney movie Aristocats, there was a system of pipes that ran throughout the house that were apparently used to communicate between rooms. Were pipes like these ever used in history, or is this just an invention for the movie?

3889 upvotes • mister-grayson

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Why, 150 years after the Civil War, is the US so seemingly more affected by the scars of slavery than other WH countries, even those whose experience was harsher (esp. where sugar was the primary crop)? Is this just a myopic view, or is something else making the US a special case?

3888 upvotes • td4999

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Is the stress of being “on time” a modern concept?	3899	natcat901
Completely random, I’m a fan of r/powerwashingporn but it has me thinking... what did the ancients do to power wash all their marble and granite monoliths, coliseums and pyramids? What sort of building maintenance schematics did they have?	3898	Addledbyatmosphere
Marcus Aurelius, one of the "five good emperors" and author of 'Meditations', is known to have been addicted to opium; was opium use common among the elites at the time? Would the general public have had access to it? Was there any stigma attached to its use or the dependence on it?	3898	td4999
Special Feature: Holocaust Remembrance Day – to remember and pay respect to those who perished and those who survived.	3897	commiespaceinvader
I am a random Praetorian Guard in 41 CE. How much notice do I have that we are about to assassinate Emperor Caligula and replace him with Claudius?	3897	Tularemia
In Ken Burn's The War, an American WWII Veteran recounts a story of how a captured German POW was very knowledgeable of his small city in Connecticut because before he went to the front, he was "in training for the administration of the territories". What do we know about Nazi plans for America?	3896	throwawayJames516
Did the average American expect war as a possible result of the 1860 election?	3891	AugustusKhan
Black soldiers ordered to guard supply depot so German spies would have no way to infiltrate?	3890	blueblarg
In the Disney movie Aristocats, there was a system of pipes that ran throughout the house that were apparently used to communicate between rooms. Were pipes like these ever used in history, or is this just an invention for the movie?	3889	mister-grayson
Why, 150 years after the Civil War, is the US so seemingly more affected by the scars of slavery than other WH countries, even those whose experience was harsher (esp. where sugar was the primary crop)? Is this just a myopic view, or is something else making the US a special case?	3888	td4999