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Bill Clinton has often said that his greatest foreign policy failure was inaction during the Rwandan Genocide. But at the time, was there any domestic pressure calling for US intervention or public debate about whether the US should intervene?

3814 upvotes • Tiako

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This may be a dumb question but were there white slaves in the US? (Mid 1800s)

3813 upvotes • Cowlixthememewatcher

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The North American Great Lakes are bafflingly large, with the whole system making up 21% of Earth’s unfrozen freshwater. No lake system in Europe is even close to this size. Were early European colonists surprised that something like this existed?

3813 upvotes • FriddyNanz

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What happend to all the medieval weapons in europe? Most families should have weapons from centurys of warfare, but nobody i know has any. What did they do with them?

3810 upvotes • TestingGravity

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We are a historian and an archaeologist of Ancient Greek warfare. Ask us anything about the Trojan War, the setting of "A Total War Saga: Troy"

3810 upvotes • Iphikrates

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The Orthodox Church considers itself to be catholic. The Catholic Church considers itself to be orthodox. Why did "Catholic" and "Orthodox" become the names of the two churches after the schism of 1054?

3810 upvotes • ArmandoAlvarezWF

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What purpose does Month/Day/Year do when the rest of the world does Day/Month/Year? Why/when was the shift in the US?

3809 upvotes • scottd90

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How were people not constantly impregnated during the middle ages and renaissance with all that unprotected sex?

3808 upvotes • Bear-Enjoy-Honey

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Transvestism and especially "Ladyboys" are strongly associated with South-East and East Asian culture and cities like Bangkok and Tokyo. When did this trope start and how old is it?

3807 upvotes • Dinocrocodile

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Did steppe horse archers shoot individually and with precision (like snipers in a cantabrian circle) or did they fire in volleys like foot archers?

3802 upvotes • [deleted]

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Bill Clinton has often said that his greatest foreign policy failure was inaction during the Rwandan Genocide. But at the time, was there any domestic pressure calling for US intervention or public debate about whether the US should intervene?	3814	Tiako
This may be a dumb question but were there white slaves in the US? (Mid 1800s)	3813	Cowlixthememewatcher
The North American Great Lakes are bafflingly large, with the whole system making up 21% of Earth’s unfrozen freshwater. No lake system in Europe is even close to this size. Were early European colonists surprised that something like this existed?	3813	FriddyNanz
What happend to all the medieval weapons in europe? Most families should have weapons from centurys of warfare, but nobody i know has any. What did they do with them?	3810	TestingGravity
We are a historian and an archaeologist of Ancient Greek warfare. Ask us anything about the Trojan War, the setting of "A Total War Saga: Troy"	3810	Iphikrates
The Orthodox Church considers itself to be catholic. The Catholic Church considers itself to be orthodox. Why did "Catholic" and "Orthodox" become the names of the two churches after the schism of 1054?	3810	ArmandoAlvarezWF
What purpose does Month/Day/Year do when the rest of the world does Day/Month/Year? Why/when was the shift in the US?	3809	scottd90
How were people not constantly impregnated during the middle ages and renaissance with all that unprotected sex?	3808	Bear-Enjoy-Honey
Transvestism and especially "Ladyboys" are strongly associated with South-East and East Asian culture and cities like Bangkok and Tokyo. When did this trope start and how old is it?	3807	Dinocrocodile
Did steppe horse archers shoot individually and with precision (like snipers in a cantabrian circle) or did they fire in volleys like foot archers?	3802	[deleted]