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Why did President Truman have only a 25% approval rating by the time he left office?

347 upvotes • premeddit

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I'm a woman with a family in the American Frontier. My husband dies. How do I continue to provide for my kids?

347 upvotes • Corohr

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When and why did English overcome French as the common language in Europe?

347 upvotes • Noodle_Lord

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How common was poisoning people at feasts during Medieval times in Europe?

347 upvotes • Rurikton

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I've just dug up some long/lost photos of my dad from his time in the British Army, I was wondering if you could help shed some light to what would of been an average day for him while on tour (Cyprus - 1970s?)

347 upvotes • retn

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There's a cliche of American GIs courting British women with nylons and chocolate during World War II; were American GIs really better off, financially, than their British hosts in the early '40s?

347 upvotes • td4999

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A lot of older hymns and songs in English appear to have rhymes that, to modern ears, don't actually exist except on the page – 'blood' and 'good', 'love' and 'move', for example. Did these rhyme at the time but have diverged, or were they always a bit contrived?

347 upvotes • EnclavedMicrostate

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Why were the Prussians hated so much during WWI?

347 upvotes • Execute-Order-66

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Why are there no publicly available pictures for the contents of one of the oldest surviving books in the world: The Etruscan Gold Book?

347 upvotes • bpzle

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Queen Anne of England was pregnant seventeen times yet had no children reach adolescence. Was this high rate of child mortality standard in all social castes at the time? Or is it more likely due to centuries of inbreeding by the royal families of Europe?

347 upvotes • bluelily216

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Title	Upvotes	Author	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
Why did President Truman have only a 25% approval rating by the time he left office?	347	premeddit
I'm a woman with a family in the American Frontier. My husband dies. How do I continue to provide for my kids?	347	Corohr
When and why did English overcome French as the common language in Europe?	347	Noodle_Lord
How common was poisoning people at feasts during Medieval times in Europe?	347	Rurikton
I've just dug up some long/lost photos of my dad from his time in the British Army, I was wondering if you could help shed some light to what would of been an average day for him while on tour (Cyprus - 1970s?)	347	retn
There's a cliche of American GIs courting British women with nylons and chocolate during World War II; were American GIs really better off, financially, than their British hosts in the early '40s?	347	td4999
A lot of older hymns and songs in English appear to have rhymes that, to modern ears, don't actually exist except on the page – 'blood' and 'good', 'love' and 'move', for example. Did these rhyme at the time but have diverged, or were they always a bit contrived?	347	EnclavedMicrostate
Why were the Prussians hated so much during WWI?	347	Execute-Order-66
Why are there no publicly available pictures for the contents of one of the oldest surviving books in the world: The Etruscan Gold Book?	347	bpzle
Queen Anne of England was pregnant seventeen times yet had no children reach adolescence. Was this high rate of child mortality standard in all social castes at the time? Or is it more likely due to centuries of inbreeding by the royal families of Europe?	347	bluelily216