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What made Africa into the main source of slave labor for Europe and its colonies? Were there serious attempts to buy slaves from other areas?

316 upvotes • anhydrobiosis

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How did the Serbs managed to shoot down the F-117A if it was a stealth aircraft?

316 upvotes • Bjoorden

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How did the gambling industry in Las Vegas go from being run/influenced by the mafia to being mostly owned by major business conglomerates?

316 upvotes • Darabo

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The first humans to arrive in the Americas contended with giant sloths, mastodons, mammoths, and lots of ice. They thrived for centuries in harsh conditions before dying out and being replaced by other migrants. Why did their numbers remain small, and what killed them off?

316 upvotes • RusticBohemian

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Louis Armstrong famously called Bebop “Chinese music”. What was the association between bebop and China back then, and was this a common rhetoric?

316 upvotes • Haaaaaaaveyoumet

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My great-great-grandmother spent the last twelve years of her life (1936-1948) at the Morisset Mental Hospital in Morisset, New South Wales, Australia. What would the conditions there have been like?

316 upvotes • LIKES_ROCKY_IV

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Is heterosexuality a turn of the 20th century invention?

316 upvotes • [deleted]

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Why did Russia experience a literature 'golden age' in the 19th century?

315 upvotes • [deleted]

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Are calories at the cheapest it has ever been in history? Have they consistently gotten cheaper through history?

315 upvotes • JillyPolla

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How were ancient and medieval warriors able to stay hydrated on the battlefield? Did they bring some equivalent of canteens onto the battlefield?

315 upvotes • gmoney136

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Title	Upvotes	Author	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
What made Africa into the main source of slave labor for Europe and its colonies? Were there serious attempts to buy slaves from other areas?	316	anhydrobiosis
How did the Serbs managed to shoot down the F-117A if it was a stealth aircraft?	316	Bjoorden
How did the gambling industry in Las Vegas go from being run/influenced by the mafia to being mostly owned by major business conglomerates?	316	Darabo
The first humans to arrive in the Americas contended with giant sloths, mastodons, mammoths, and lots of ice. They thrived for centuries in harsh conditions before dying out and being replaced by other migrants. Why did their numbers remain small, and what killed them off?	316	RusticBohemian
Louis Armstrong famously called Bebop “Chinese music”. What was the association between bebop and China back then, and was this a common rhetoric?	316	Haaaaaaaveyoumet
My great-great-grandmother spent the last twelve years of her life (1936-1948) at the Morisset Mental Hospital in Morisset, New South Wales, Australia. What would the conditions there have been like?	316	LIKES_ROCKY_IV
Is heterosexuality a turn of the 20th century invention?	316	[deleted]
Why did Russia experience a literature 'golden age' in the 19th century?	315	[deleted]
Are calories at the cheapest it has ever been in history? Have they consistently gotten cheaper through history?	315	JillyPolla
How were ancient and medieval warriors able to stay hydrated on the battlefield? Did they bring some equivalent of canteens onto the battlefield?	315	gmoney136