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Prussia: the accuracy of "Prussia was a military with a country, not a country with a military"?

341 upvotes • boxian

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Why did HO scale (1/87) become such a popular scale for the building of models, as opposed to a simpler fraction like 1/100?

341 upvotes • SoundAndFury87

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Did President H. W. Bush ever give a substantive reason for pardoning all the bad actors in the Iran Contra affair on his last day in office?

341 upvotes • JurgenCOD

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Nazi and Jewish scientists at NASA

341 upvotes • MopMoppington

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Did Hitler outline any plans for succession?

341 upvotes • Ghost-Of-Roger-Ailes

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Why do old maps have mythical creatures blowing in the corners?

341 upvotes • divilly

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What did Leonardo Da Vinci mean when he said ‘There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown and those who cannot see’?

341 upvotes • bigwangwunhunnit

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Could a Puerto Rican citizen born before January 13 1941, theoretically, become president of united states?

341 upvotes • ShadowPrezident

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In popular culture in the West, Russians are noted as being especially tough and 'hardcore.' What led to this? Their suffering in WWII and events like Chernobyl? A fear of Soviets and a vilification of them as 'beasts'? Something else?

341 upvotes • Kesh-Bap

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Could your typical soldier in an 18th or early 19th century firing line do anything to increase their odds of survival in battle short of running away? Standing in a rigid line, it seems like nothing except pure luck could keep you safe from a bullet or a cannonball.

341 upvotes • MolotovCollective

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Title	Upvotes	Author	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
Prussia: the accuracy of "Prussia was a military with a country, not a country with a military"?	341	boxian
Why did HO scale (1/87) become such a popular scale for the building of models, as opposed to a simpler fraction like 1/100?	341	SoundAndFury87
Did President H. W. Bush ever give a substantive reason for pardoning all the bad actors in the Iran Contra affair on his last day in office?	341	JurgenCOD
Nazi and Jewish scientists at NASA	341	MopMoppington
Did Hitler outline any plans for succession?	341	Ghost-Of-Roger-Ailes
Why do old maps have mythical creatures blowing in the corners?	341	divilly
What did Leonardo Da Vinci mean when he said ‘There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown and those who cannot see’?	341	bigwangwunhunnit
Could a Puerto Rican citizen born before January 13 1941, theoretically, become president of united states?	341	ShadowPrezident
In popular culture in the West, Russians are noted as being especially tough and 'hardcore.' What led to this? Their suffering in WWII and events like Chernobyl? A fear of Soviets and a vilification of them as 'beasts'? Something else?	341	Kesh-Bap
Could your typical soldier in an 18th or early 19th century firing line do anything to increase their odds of survival in battle short of running away? Standing in a rigid line, it seems like nothing except pure luck could keep you safe from a bullet or a cannonball.	341	MolotovCollective