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Before 1917 would Tsar Nicholas have even known who Lenin was or what a "Bolshevik" is? Did he have a basic understanding of the factions at play in 1905, or was he just completely out of touch?

355 upvotes • LibsAreGirondins

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Historically, there were a large number of Supreme Court Justices who came from obscure universities, or who "read law" and had no Law degree at all. Since 1969, they have all attended Harvard, Yale, Stanford, and Northwestern. What prompted this change?

355 upvotes • BroseppeVerdi

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Many languages to read left-to-right while many others read right-to-left. What cased the difference and when did that difference likely originate?

355 upvotes • dgoldstein38

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[meta] How did r/AskHistorians attract historians and reach its current standards?

355 upvotes • jdyhfyjfg

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In retellings of how the Dutch handed over Manhattan to the British in exchange for Suriname, you hear it said that the Dutch got swindled. But would Manhattan really have been valuable to the Dutch if it stayed a lone Dutch colony surrounded by English colonies?

355 upvotes • bulukelin

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What happened to the property of people who died during the Black Death?

355 upvotes • Stock-Series-6612

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Where does the ‘ancient advanced civilization’ trope in fiction come from?

355 upvotes • JohroFF

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I have heard Noam Chomsky say that from the 1930's on America was the subject of a huge propaganda campaign to move American opinion to the right.

354 upvotes • Lard_Baron

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Has their ever been a time in US history that "arming the rebels" worked out ok?

354 upvotes • remotefixonline

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Did Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley change R&B and Rock and Roll in any significant way, or did they just popularize the music among white Americans?

354 upvotes • Vladith

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Before 1917 would Tsar Nicholas have even known who Lenin was or what a "Bolshevik" is? Did he have a basic understanding of the factions at play in 1905, or was he just completely out of touch?	355	LibsAreGirondins
Historically, there were a large number of Supreme Court Justices who came from obscure universities, or who "read law" and had no Law degree at all. Since 1969, they have all attended Harvard, Yale, Stanford, and Northwestern. What prompted this change?	355	BroseppeVerdi
Many languages to read left-to-right while many others read right-to-left. What cased the difference and when did that difference likely originate?	355	dgoldstein38
[meta] How did r/AskHistorians attract historians and reach its current standards?	355	jdyhfyjfg
In retellings of how the Dutch handed over Manhattan to the British in exchange for Suriname, you hear it said that the Dutch got swindled. But would Manhattan really have been valuable to the Dutch if it stayed a lone Dutch colony surrounded by English colonies?	355	bulukelin
What happened to the property of people who died during the Black Death?	355	Stock-Series-6612
Where does the ‘ancient advanced civilization’ trope in fiction come from?	355	JohroFF
I have heard Noam Chomsky say that from the 1930's on America was the subject of a huge propaganda campaign to move American opinion to the right.	354	Lard_Baron
Has their ever been a time in US history that "arming the rebels" worked out ok?	354	remotefixonline
Did Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley change R&B and Rock and Roll in any significant way, or did they just popularize the music among white Americans?	354	Vladith