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How did the Catholic Church go from putting Galileo on Trial to forming a Pontifical Academy of Sciences?

330 upvotes • eternalkerri

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The Italian renaissance was a golden age for elites, but what was life like for the middle and lower class?

330 upvotes • Deepspacesquid

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What was the relationship between knight and horse?

330 upvotes • nowlan101

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How true is it that some western corporations and royal families secretly funded and supplied the Nazis in order to use Germany as a bulwark against the Russian Revolution spreading into western Europe?

330 upvotes • pepperoniroll

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In ancient Sumerian records, Kings were recorded to have ruled for over 20,000 years. How do we interpret these records?

330 upvotes • interleukin_fine

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In modern popular culture, why aren’t the WW2-era Italians vilified as the Germans and [to a lesser extent] Japanese are?

330 upvotes • wellwaffled

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I'm a well-off Roman citizen with a standard Classical education in the early Fourth Century. What sort of misconceptions or stereotypes would I have held about life under the Julio-Claudians 300 years ago?

330 upvotes • GruesomeTheTerrible

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Knights, princesses, dungeons, and dragons still loom large in children's pretend play. Did children of High Medieval Europe have a similar pseudohistorical analogue for their make-believe?

330 upvotes • MadScientist22

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In the show "The Man in High Castle" the Nazis celebrate victory over the US in the occupied states. Was this an actual practice in Nazi occupied states during WWII?

330 upvotes • s1ugg0

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Is this image of Nietzsche and Lou Andreas-Salomé authentic? NSFW

330 upvotes • whirlpoolwhirlpool

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Title	Upvotes	Author	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
How did the Catholic Church go from putting Galileo on Trial to forming a Pontifical Academy of Sciences?	330	eternalkerri
The Italian renaissance was a golden age for elites, but what was life like for the middle and lower class?	330	Deepspacesquid
What was the relationship between knight and horse?	330	nowlan101
How true is it that some western corporations and royal families secretly funded and supplied the Nazis in order to use Germany as a bulwark against the Russian Revolution spreading into western Europe?	330	pepperoniroll
In ancient Sumerian records, Kings were recorded to have ruled for over 20,000 years. How do we interpret these records?	330	interleukin_fine
In modern popular culture, why aren’t the WW2-era Italians vilified as the Germans and [to a lesser extent] Japanese are?	330	wellwaffled
I'm a well-off Roman citizen with a standard Classical education in the early Fourth Century. What sort of misconceptions or stereotypes would I have held about life under the Julio-Claudians 300 years ago?	330	GruesomeTheTerrible
Knights, princesses, dungeons, and dragons still loom large in children's pretend play. Did children of High Medieval Europe have a similar pseudohistorical analogue for their make-believe?	330	MadScientist22
In the show "The Man in High Castle" the Nazis celebrate victory over the US in the occupied states. Was this an actual practice in Nazi occupied states during WWII?	330	s1ugg0
Is this image of Nietzsche and Lou Andreas-Salomé authentic? NSFW	330	whirlpoolwhirlpool