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Before Gregor Mendel's work on heredity, how was the scenario of two dark haired parents producing a child with blonde hair viewed?

316 upvotes • GetLiquid

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I've heard the worst destiny for a slave in the ancient world was not the arena but the mines, is it true?

316 upvotes • koga90

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Video of a college professor saying that he has not found "evidence of ONE crime committed by Stalin" is gaining steam on /r/videos. There is a ton of really bad history being spread in the comments there so can you all provide some of the sources that give evidence for Stalin's atrocities?

316 upvotes • pudding_world

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During the 1000 years of Chinese occupation in Vietnam, did the Vietnamese consider themselves a separate people from the Chinese, or did they think of themselves as similar in heritage?

316 upvotes • 786888786888786

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What centennial commemorations of the Battle of Waterloo took place, if any, in June 1915 when Europe was again at war, with Waterloo allies now enemies and enemies now allies.

316 upvotes • Brickie78

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Was Godzilla originally supposed to represent the U.S after WWII?

316 upvotes • InfamousGAINS

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How did the Sassanid Empire deal with Huns? Why were they able to resist them while the Romans weren't ?

316 upvotes • TheyTukMyJub

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Why was the region of Judea viewed as a "promised land" considering it seems rather barren today?

316 upvotes • danherczak

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There's Visigoths and Ostrogoths and Vandals, who spoke Gothic so I'll lump them in with Goths. Did they understand themselves to be Goths or is "Goths" an exonym applied by the Romans to these various East Germanic groups with little relation to one another?

316 upvotes • Xxxn00bpwnR69xxX

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Why did Spain seem to go from a European powerhouse from the 16th century to a political backwater by 1930?

316 upvotes • arkham1010

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Before Gregor Mendel's work on heredity, how was the scenario of two dark haired parents producing a child with blonde hair viewed?	316	GetLiquid
I've heard the worst destiny for a slave in the ancient world was not the arena but the mines, is it true?	316	koga90
Video of a college professor saying that he has not found "evidence of ONE crime committed by Stalin" is gaining steam on /r/videos. There is a ton of really bad history being spread in the comments there so can you all provide some of the sources that give evidence for Stalin's atrocities?	316	pudding_world
During the 1000 years of Chinese occupation in Vietnam, did the Vietnamese consider themselves a separate people from the Chinese, or did they think of themselves as similar in heritage?	316	786888786888786
What centennial commemorations of the Battle of Waterloo took place, if any, in June 1915 when Europe was again at war, with Waterloo allies now enemies and enemies now allies.	316	Brickie78
Was Godzilla originally supposed to represent the U.S after WWII?	316	InfamousGAINS
How did the Sassanid Empire deal with Huns? Why were they able to resist them while the Romans weren't ?	316	TheyTukMyJub
Why was the region of Judea viewed as a "promised land" considering it seems rather barren today?	316	danherczak
There's Visigoths and Ostrogoths and Vandals, who spoke Gothic so I'll lump them in with Goths. Did they understand themselves to be Goths or is "Goths" an exonym applied by the Romans to these various East Germanic groups with little relation to one another?	316	Xxxn00bpwnR69xxX
Why did Spain seem to go from a European powerhouse from the 16th century to a political backwater by 1930?	316	arkham1010