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How did the US government justify violating treaties that it signed with Native Americans?

370 upvotes • Professional_Cat_437

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What were Aztec sacrifices actually like?

369 upvotes • AgentCC

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Why did the Soviet military maintain the Officer/Enlisted class binary rather than instituting some other hierarchichal structure? How did they ideologically justify maintaining two distinct and separate classes, one privileged over the other, in an army putatively fighting for a classless society?

369 upvotes • bigmapblog

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Have we really had 430 years of virgin popes?

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Have any other fashion choices/hairstyles/et cetera been ruined in the same manner as the "Hitler mustache," either before or after?

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Suppose you're a Byzantine soldier in the early 13th century. How badly would the sack of 1204, effect the empire's ability to pay you and make sure you have functional armour, weapons and supplies?

369 upvotes • grapp

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In the Bible, kings sometimes offer someone "whatever you ask, even up to half of my kingdom." Do we know of anybody who called them on that?

369 upvotes • Labarum

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In the Game of Thrones TV series (and book) bastards from different regions all share a common surname to identify them, Snow or Flowers for example. Does this system have any evidence in history or was it invented by the author?

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Pens of the Soviet Union

369 upvotes • Exostrike

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Why it is the case that we can use the Rosetta stone to translate hieroglyphics from two or three thousand years before in was made (in 196 BC)? Why isn't the Egyptian from that long before, as different as my English is from Proto-Germanic?

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Title	Upvotes	Author	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
How did the US government justify violating treaties that it signed with Native Americans?	370	Professional_Cat_437
What were Aztec sacrifices actually like?	369	AgentCC
Why did the Soviet military maintain the Officer/Enlisted class binary rather than instituting some other hierarchichal structure? How did they ideologically justify maintaining two distinct and separate classes, one privileged over the other, in an army putatively fighting for a classless society?	369	bigmapblog
Have we really had 430 years of virgin popes?	369	[deleted]
Have any other fashion choices/hairstyles/et cetera been ruined in the same manner as the "Hitler mustache," either before or after?	369	[deleted]
Suppose you're a Byzantine soldier in the early 13th century. How badly would the sack of 1204, effect the empire's ability to pay you and make sure you have functional armour, weapons and supplies?	369	grapp
In the Bible, kings sometimes offer someone "whatever you ask, even up to half of my kingdom." Do we know of anybody who called them on that?	369	Labarum
In the Game of Thrones TV series (and book) bastards from different regions all share a common surname to identify them, Snow or Flowers for example. Does this system have any evidence in history or was it invented by the author?	369	[deleted]
Pens of the Soviet Union	369	Exostrike
Why it is the case that we can use the Rosetta stone to translate hieroglyphics from two or three thousand years before in was made (in 196 BC)? Why isn't the Egyptian from that long before, as different as my English is from Proto-Germanic?	369	grapp