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Did "long cons" and "Big Stores" really exist in the 1920s and 1930s? Did dozens of con-artists team together to pull off big scores?

321 upvotes • [deleted]

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Has there ever been an attempt, successful or otherwise, to replicate the Spartan agoge? (the famously brutal training regimen that all Spartan males had to go through)

321 upvotes • Beccorban

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In the PBS special, "Islam:Empire of Faith," while discussing the Bedouin tribes that Muhammad would have grown up in, PBS shows women in Burkas. This is before Muhammad becomes a prophet. Was it common for women to wear Burkas before the rise of Islam, or was this a mistake by PBS?

321 upvotes • sweet_dude_

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It seems like it was a pretty common practice to shave the heads/humiliate women who became pregnant by a German soldier in occupied territories during WWII. How were the children themselves typically treated as their life progressed?

321 upvotes • HungryHungryCamel

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Why are the Athenians, Romans, Americans, and French credited with 'popularizing' democracy, but not the Venetians, Swiss, English or Dutch?

321 upvotes • Feezec

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Every decade in the last 100 years is discernible by its fashion trends. Are we able to identify fashion trends by decade dating back to the 1600s or did it take longer in the past for fashion to change?

321 upvotes • SalvatoreLeone

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Just watched Gunbuster, released in 1988 but set in 2023. It features a character from the USSR. Did everyone really think the USSR would last the 90's, even as late as '88?

321 upvotes • Sedretpol

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The 1990 series 'The Civil War' is one of the most widely acclaimed and popular documentaries in history, and is credited with greatly increasing American public interest in the US Civil War. What was the academic reception to the series?

321 upvotes • Elm11

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In 'It Happened One Night' (1934), Claudette Colbert's character is shocked to see Clark Cable's character eat raw carrots. How did American cuisine treat fruits and vegetables in the 1930s?

321 upvotes • st_sebastian

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How exactly and when did the term "Bohemian" start to refer to nightlife, drinking and social culture, beyond the original meaning of "person from the region of Bohemia", the Czech region? What led to the association?

321 upvotes • SubcommanderMarcos

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Did "long cons" and "Big Stores" really exist in the 1920s and 1930s? Did dozens of con-artists team together to pull off big scores?	321	[deleted]
Has there ever been an attempt, successful or otherwise, to replicate the Spartan agoge? (the famously brutal training regimen that all Spartan males had to go through)	321	Beccorban
In the PBS special, "Islam:Empire of Faith," while discussing the Bedouin tribes that Muhammad would have grown up in, PBS shows women in Burkas. This is before Muhammad becomes a prophet. Was it common for women to wear Burkas before the rise of Islam, or was this a mistake by PBS?	321	sweet_dude_
It seems like it was a pretty common practice to shave the heads/humiliate women who became pregnant by a German soldier in occupied territories during WWII. How were the children themselves typically treated as their life progressed?	321	HungryHungryCamel
Why are the Athenians, Romans, Americans, and French credited with 'popularizing' democracy, but not the Venetians, Swiss, English or Dutch?	321	Feezec
Every decade in the last 100 years is discernible by its fashion trends. Are we able to identify fashion trends by decade dating back to the 1600s or did it take longer in the past for fashion to change?	321	SalvatoreLeone
Just watched Gunbuster, released in 1988 but set in 2023. It features a character from the USSR. Did everyone really think the USSR would last the 90's, even as late as '88?	321	Sedretpol
The 1990 series 'The Civil War' is one of the most widely acclaimed and popular documentaries in history, and is credited with greatly increasing American public interest in the US Civil War. What was the academic reception to the series?	321	Elm11
In 'It Happened One Night' (1934), Claudette Colbert's character is shocked to see Clark Cable's character eat raw carrots. How did American cuisine treat fruits and vegetables in the 1930s?	321	st_sebastian
How exactly and when did the term "Bohemian" start to refer to nightlife, drinking and social culture, beyond the original meaning of "person from the region of Bohemia", the Czech region? What led to the association?	321	SubcommanderMarcos