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When did hockey decide to punish players by putting them in a box?

358 upvotes • TrueBirch

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Why has so little seem to have been written about the Spanish flu even though it killed 50 million people (or about 200 million today as a percentage of total population)?

358 upvotes • snabotage

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How did wetnurses get their jobs in the Middle Ages and what would happen to them once the baby was weaned?

358 upvotes • Summer525625

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If I am a queen, and I marry a duke, am I expected to be deferrent to him, as he is my husband, or is he expected to be deferrent to me, as I am his superior?

357 upvotes • Vladith

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How did the Baltic nations manage to stay pagan until the 13th and 14th century?

357 upvotes • BizarroCullen

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How did it come to be that we say "speak now, or forever hold your peace" at weddings? Was there a time where objections were common?

357 upvotes • locoblacbelt

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[Meta] is there a way to discourage questions of the type "refute politically loaded bad history question" that seem to be popping up recently?

357 upvotes • [deleted]

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Would an English commoner before 1500 have heard music on a regular basis? Would their musical tastes have expanded much beyond common Church hymns and perhaps some folk songs? What about nobles? When would a more expansive musical repertoire become common for the English lower-class?

357 upvotes • Fiddlerax

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What were the religious beliefs of the Varangian Guard and how did they interact with the religion of the Byzantine Empire?

357 upvotes • Neroptime

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In the tv show Rome by HBO, people adopt weirdly specific poses for public speaking. Do they have any significance?

357 upvotes • kace91

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Title	Upvotes	Author	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
When did hockey decide to punish players by putting them in a box?	358	TrueBirch
Why has so little seem to have been written about the Spanish flu even though it killed 50 million people (or about 200 million today as a percentage of total population)?	358	snabotage
How did wetnurses get their jobs in the Middle Ages and what would happen to them once the baby was weaned?	358	Summer525625
If I am a queen, and I marry a duke, am I expected to be deferrent to him, as he is my husband, or is he expected to be deferrent to me, as I am his superior?	357	Vladith
How did the Baltic nations manage to stay pagan until the 13th and 14th century?	357	BizarroCullen
How did it come to be that we say "speak now, or forever hold your peace" at weddings? Was there a time where objections were common?	357	locoblacbelt
[Meta] is there a way to discourage questions of the type "refute politically loaded bad history question" that seem to be popping up recently?	357	[deleted]
Would an English commoner before 1500 have heard music on a regular basis? Would their musical tastes have expanded much beyond common Church hymns and perhaps some folk songs? What about nobles? When would a more expansive musical repertoire become common for the English lower-class?	357	Fiddlerax
What were the religious beliefs of the Varangian Guard and how did they interact with the religion of the Byzantine Empire?	357	Neroptime
In the tv show Rome by HBO, people adopt weirdly specific poses for public speaking. Do they have any significance?	357	kace91