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Many Indian armies in the late 1700s adopted European-style organization and tactics and weaponry. Why did they still frequently fail to defeat the British even when they had numerical superiority?

310 upvotes • Xxxn00bpwnR69xxX

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Did "freedom papers" actually help black people during slavery or were they just inevitably captured again and their papers disposed of and the courts didn't care?

310 upvotes • soysaus52

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How did Lafayette, Kosicuzco, Pulaski, von Steuben, and other foreign volunteers in the American Revolution feel about fighting for freedom for a slaveowning society, and the fact that Washington and other prominent patriots owned slaves?

310 upvotes • henry_fords_ghost

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If I were a traveller in 13th century England. What would I eat on the road and how would I find a place to sleep.

310 upvotes • Raznakz

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Is the seabed of certains areas fulled of canonballs ?

310 upvotes • gulumei

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Did Classical or Archaic Greeks see the Mycenaeans, Minoans, and other Bronze Age cultures as a kind of “fallen world” or themselves as in a post apocalypse after the Bronze Age Collapse?

310 upvotes • echoGroot

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How was it that Edmund Hillary, a foreigner, was [supposedly] the first man to climb Mt. Everest when his local guide Tenzing Norgay's people had presumably lived near the mountain for thousands of years?

310 upvotes • curiouskiwicat

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Did "Pooh" mean "poop" when A.A. Milne wrote Winnie-the-Pooh in 1926? If not, what did the word refer to?

310 upvotes • mirthquake

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The Chinese examination system was abolished in 1905. How did this last generation of Confucian scholars fare in the 20th century?

310 upvotes • kirkdict

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Is the trail of tears officially recognized as a genocide?

310 upvotes • Simpler333

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Many Indian armies in the late 1700s adopted European-style organization and tactics and weaponry. Why did they still frequently fail to defeat the British even when they had numerical superiority?	310	Xxxn00bpwnR69xxX
Did "freedom papers" actually help black people during slavery or were they just inevitably captured again and their papers disposed of and the courts didn't care?	310	soysaus52
How did Lafayette, Kosicuzco, Pulaski, von Steuben, and other foreign volunteers in the American Revolution feel about fighting for freedom for a slaveowning society, and the fact that Washington and other prominent patriots owned slaves?	310	henry_fords_ghost
If I were a traveller in 13th century England. What would I eat on the road and how would I find a place to sleep.	310	Raznakz
Is the seabed of certains areas fulled of canonballs ?	310	gulumei
Did Classical or Archaic Greeks see the Mycenaeans, Minoans, and other Bronze Age cultures as a kind of “fallen world” or themselves as in a post apocalypse after the Bronze Age Collapse?	310	echoGroot
How was it that Edmund Hillary, a foreigner, was [supposedly] the first man to climb Mt. Everest when his local guide Tenzing Norgay's people had presumably lived near the mountain for thousands of years?	310	curiouskiwicat
Did "Pooh" mean "poop" when A.A. Milne wrote Winnie-the-Pooh in 1926? If not, what did the word refer to?	310	mirthquake
The Chinese examination system was abolished in 1905. How did this last generation of Confucian scholars fare in the 20th century?	310	kirkdict
Is the trail of tears officially recognized as a genocide?	310	Simpler333