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Was there ever pressure from religious hardliners to destroy the pyramids or the Sphinx in Egypt?

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Margaret Sanger was arrested on this day in 1916 for selling contraceptives. What kind of birth control was available in 1916?

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Did people care if you talked during silent movies?

352 upvotes • Inevitablysusan

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Do we have any real reason to believe Australian Aboriginal stories are anywhere near as ancient as people seem to assume they are?

352 upvotes • MaxAugust

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Where did the puritanical attitude toward sex come from? NSFW

352 upvotes • Fire_Proof_TV

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Why did approximately all of Algeria's Jews leave the country in less than a year?

352 upvotes • DesineSperare

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How was the American Revolution covered in the foreign press?

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What was the Japanese perception of their Emperor and how did they compare it to that of the Chinese Emperor throughout the Medieval Period? Did they acknowledge the Chinese Emperor as being higher in rank? Inferior in status or equal?

351 upvotes • ByzantineBasileus

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Why did the US give immunity to Japanese scientists from Unit 731 and not the Nazi scientists who performed similar experiments on people?

351 upvotes • shouldhavebeenathrow

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Why didn't Polynesians colonise Australia?

351 upvotes • semaj009

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Title	Upvotes	Author	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
Was there ever pressure from religious hardliners to destroy the pyramids or the Sphinx in Egypt?	352	[deleted]
Margaret Sanger was arrested on this day in 1916 for selling contraceptives. What kind of birth control was available in 1916?	352	[deleted]
Did people care if you talked during silent movies?	352	Inevitablysusan
Do we have any real reason to believe Australian Aboriginal stories are anywhere near as ancient as people seem to assume they are?	352	MaxAugust
Where did the puritanical attitude toward sex come from? NSFW	352	Fire_Proof_TV
Why did approximately all of Algeria's Jews leave the country in less than a year?	352	DesineSperare
How was the American Revolution covered in the foreign press?	351	Emjoyable
What was the Japanese perception of their Emperor and how did they compare it to that of the Chinese Emperor throughout the Medieval Period? Did they acknowledge the Chinese Emperor as being higher in rank? Inferior in status or equal?	351	ByzantineBasileus
Why did the US give immunity to Japanese scientists from Unit 731 and not the Nazi scientists who performed similar experiments on people?	351	shouldhavebeenathrow
Why didn't Polynesians colonise Australia?	351	semaj009