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Any truth to this? Napoleon spent a night in the Great Pyramid "on his deathbed a close friend asked him to reveal what had transpired inside the King’s Chamber. Napoleon was about to tell him, then he changed his mind. He just shook his head and said: “No, what’s the use. You’d never believe me."

298 upvotes • ultrafidelio

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Was the Massacre of Srebrenica both-sided?

298 upvotes • bsrn

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In 410 Flavius Aetius was sent to the Huns as a hostage and the military upbringing he received was described as giving him a 'martial vigour' uncommon among other Roman Generals at the time. What is meant by 'martial vigour' and why was this uncommon among the other Roman Generals of this period?

298 upvotes • ReddevilsWorkAccount

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In the Federalist Papers, Hamilton references an event in which Sweden went from an limited monarchy to an absolute one. What event is he talking about?

298 upvotes • john_andrew_smith101

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Did Ancient Greeks have the common cold?

298 upvotes • KimchiMaker

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Did people eat the same cuts of meat during antiquity that we do today?

298 upvotes • -Constantinos-

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Somewhere between, say, 1950 and 2000, the name "Dick" went from a common respectable diminutive form of the name "Richard" to almost exclusively being used as a slang term for penis. Is there any timeline of how this happened, and when it began to become frowned upon as a name?

298 upvotes • whorish_ooze

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"Tyrant" and "Despot" in modern English both refer to particularly cruel and oppressive rulers, but originally were just fairly generic Greek terms for rulers. How did they gain their English connotations?

298 upvotes • megami-hime

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Why did the majority of the Muslim population living in the Palestine Mandate reject the original 1948 UN proposal for a two state solution? Did they want one multicultural state for co-existance with Jews? Did the majority of Muslims want to expel the Jews? Or is my understanding entirely off base?

298 upvotes • esol9

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The Islamic calendar is fairly unique among calendars in its lack of intercalation. Not only that, intercalation is pretty nakedly forbidden in Islam to the extent that it is mentioned in the Quran. Why did Muhammad have so much beef with the leap year?

298 upvotes • Xxxn00bpwnR69xxX

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Any truth to this? Napoleon spent a night in the Great Pyramid "on his deathbed a close friend asked him to reveal what had transpired inside the King’s Chamber. Napoleon was about to tell him, then he changed his mind. He just shook his head and said: “No, what’s the use. You’d never believe me."	298	ultrafidelio
Was the Massacre of Srebrenica both-sided?	298	bsrn
In 410 Flavius Aetius was sent to the Huns as a hostage and the military upbringing he received was described as giving him a 'martial vigour' uncommon among other Roman Generals at the time. What is meant by 'martial vigour' and why was this uncommon among the other Roman Generals of this period?	298	ReddevilsWorkAccount
In the Federalist Papers, Hamilton references an event in which Sweden went from an limited monarchy to an absolute one. What event is he talking about?	298	john_andrew_smith101
Did Ancient Greeks have the common cold?	298	KimchiMaker
Did people eat the same cuts of meat during antiquity that we do today?	298	-Constantinos-
Somewhere between, say, 1950 and 2000, the name "Dick" went from a common respectable diminutive form of the name "Richard" to almost exclusively being used as a slang term for penis. Is there any timeline of how this happened, and when it began to become frowned upon as a name?	298	whorish_ooze
"Tyrant" and "Despot" in modern English both refer to particularly cruel and oppressive rulers, but originally were just fairly generic Greek terms for rulers. How did they gain their English connotations?	298	megami-hime
Why did the majority of the Muslim population living in the Palestine Mandate reject the original 1948 UN proposal for a two state solution? Did they want one multicultural state for co-existance with Jews? Did the majority of Muslims want to expel the Jews? Or is my understanding entirely off base?	298	esol9
The Islamic calendar is fairly unique among calendars in its lack of intercalation. Not only that, intercalation is pretty nakedly forbidden in Islam to the extent that it is mentioned in the Quran. Why did Muhammad have so much beef with the leap year?	298	Xxxn00bpwnR69xxX