/r/AskHistorians

Title	Upvotes	Author
I am a medieval peasant boys in my teenage years and I start feeling attracted to other boys/men. What, if any, is my perception of homosexuality and how could I deal with it?	3533	JohnBrown1ng
After the use of Choctaw code talkers in WWI, Nazi Germany apparently sent spies, disguised as anthropologists and art students, to the US to learn Native American languages. However, they failed to learn Navajo. What do we know about this effort? How organized was it and who ran it on the Nazi end?	3532	Ganesha811
I've heard all my life that the Middle East was essentially peaceful coexistence between Jews and Muslims until Western mandates divided territory arbitrarily. How much of this is fact versus fiction?	3531	SpookyTerrence
In Jarhead, a marine trainee in the scout sniper program stands up during a crawling exercise and gets shot. How common were such training exercise deaths from live ammunition at the time?	3530	DLosChestProtector
In the Arctic, there are no trees. The Inuit made use of driftwood - what did they think this material was from?	3530	7evenh3lls
Why did the Indian Subcontinent never have countries with strong seafaring traditions, even though they had a vast peninsula, unlike European countries?	3525	delayed_failure
I read that if Aztec slaves escaped from the master and stepped on excrement, it would grant freedom. During the escape, no one but the owner and his kin was allowed to chase the slave else they would be punished. Is any of this true and if so, was it a religious reason for these strange rules?	3522	Chicano_Ducky
How did Switzerland, a landlocked European country, become so well known for fine chocolates when both sugar and cacao are grown far away in mostly tropical places?	3520	SuperGISNerd9000
According to Ken Burns, the average soldier in the Civil War was 5'8 and 140 pounds, which seems exceptionally small and light for a population selected to fight; would this have been consistent with European armies of the same time period? If not, what would explain the differences?	3518	td4999
What were the Tiananmen Square protesters demanding, and has this been portrayed honestly by Western media accounts?	3516	Osemelet

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