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How did paprika, whose primary compound is pepper, a New World ingredient, become so synonymous with Hungarian cuisine?

318 upvotes • elnander

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Was the Spanish flu ever as politicized and divisive as COVID is?

318 upvotes • Miss_Westeros

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In Romans 1 26-27 Paul says that paganism is the reason roman men "lust for each other" and women do "unnatural" sexual acts. What sexual acts could he be referring to? NSFW

318 upvotes • Frigorifico

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How did paisley become the archetypal pattern for bandanas?

318 upvotes • DarthAardvark

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What were Irish monks doing in Iceland before the first Norse settlers arrived?

318 upvotes • [deleted]

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When did the distinct Ukrainian identity emerge ?

318 upvotes • anuarkm

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Mikhail Gorbachev famously agreed to do a Pizza Hut commercial in 1997. Was Pizza Hut remotely affordable to Russia's working class families at that time?

318 upvotes • Forerunner49

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After Prohibition turned out to be a hideous mistake, did leaders of the temperance movement ever admit they were wrong?

318 upvotes • rdhight

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In his 1831 introduction to his novel, “The Last of The Mohicans”, James Fenimore Cooper mentioned that indigenous peoples of the Americas were likely asiatic in origin, a hypothesis generally believed to be true today. When was this hypothesis first proposed?

318 upvotes • Damned-scoundrel

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What was Gerald Ford's wartime service record like such that it warranted naming an entire class of ships after him?

318 upvotes • EdHistory101

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Title	Upvotes	Author	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
How did paprika, whose primary compound is pepper, a New World ingredient, become so synonymous with Hungarian cuisine?	318	elnander
Was the Spanish flu ever as politicized and divisive as COVID is?	318	Miss_Westeros
In Romans 1 26-27 Paul says that paganism is the reason roman men "lust for each other" and women do "unnatural" sexual acts. What sexual acts could he be referring to? NSFW	318	Frigorifico
How did paisley become the archetypal pattern for bandanas?	318	DarthAardvark
What were Irish monks doing in Iceland before the first Norse settlers arrived?	318	[deleted]
When did the distinct Ukrainian identity emerge ?	318	anuarkm
Mikhail Gorbachev famously agreed to do a Pizza Hut commercial in 1997. Was Pizza Hut remotely affordable to Russia's working class families at that time?	318	Forerunner49
After Prohibition turned out to be a hideous mistake, did leaders of the temperance movement ever admit they were wrong?	318	rdhight
In his 1831 introduction to his novel, “The Last of The Mohicans”, James Fenimore Cooper mentioned that indigenous peoples of the Americas were likely asiatic in origin, a hypothesis generally believed to be true today. When was this hypothesis first proposed?	318	Damned-scoundrel
What was Gerald Ford's wartime service record like such that it warranted naming an entire class of ships after him?	318	EdHistory101