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Why did some languages develop right to left reading style while the majority went left to right?

342 upvotes • JokersChristmasWish

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Month names "September", "October", "November" and "December" clearly lead back to the Latin numbers 7, 8, 9 and 10. How come they're the 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th months then? What happened?

342 upvotes • heheinterwebz

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Why is it that peanut butter is so popular in America but not elsewhere in the world?

342 upvotes • smileyman

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Why in during the cold war did Western tank design focus on large turrets with composite armor and Eastern tank design focus on small turrets with reactive armor? And what we're the pros and cons of each?

342 upvotes • ECompany101

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What was the relationship between Margaret Thatcher and Queen Elizabeth II like?

342 upvotes • Milenas

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Who was the last female dictator of a nation?

342 upvotes • elverloho

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I have a banknote from the Confederacy labelled 'Two years after the ratification of a treaty of peace between the Confederate States and the United States'. Weirder, it's dated 1864. What does this mean?

342 upvotes • El_Predsjednik

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The prevalent belief in major western capitalist democracies is that a major revolution which completed transformed the political system is unrealistic in our lifetime. Was this view also prevalent in the years and decades before the French, Russian and American revolutions?

342 upvotes • BaoJinyang

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Did Genghis Khan ever learn of Atilla the Hun?

342 upvotes • rammingparu2

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What was sex in ancient Rome like? NSFW

342 upvotes • che-ez

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Title	Upvotes	Author	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
Why did some languages develop right to left reading style while the majority went left to right?	342	JokersChristmasWish
Month names "September", "October", "November" and "December" clearly lead back to the Latin numbers 7, 8, 9 and 10. How come they're the 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th months then? What happened?	342	heheinterwebz
Why is it that peanut butter is so popular in America but not elsewhere in the world?	342	smileyman
Why in during the cold war did Western tank design focus on large turrets with composite armor and Eastern tank design focus on small turrets with reactive armor? And what we're the pros and cons of each?	342	ECompany101
What was the relationship between Margaret Thatcher and Queen Elizabeth II like?	342	Milenas
Who was the last female dictator of a nation?	342	elverloho
I have a banknote from the Confederacy labelled 'Two years after the ratification of a treaty of peace between the Confederate States and the United States'. Weirder, it's dated 1864. What does this mean?	342	El_Predsjednik
The prevalent belief in major western capitalist democracies is that a major revolution which completed transformed the political system is unrealistic in our lifetime. Was this view also prevalent in the years and decades before the French, Russian and American revolutions?	342	BaoJinyang
Did Genghis Khan ever learn of Atilla the Hun?	342	rammingparu2
What was sex in ancient Rome like? NSFW	342	che-ez