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Since Thanksgiving was proclaimed a national holiday by Abraham Lincoln in 1863, was there any resistance to celebrating the holiday in the South after the Civil War?

287 upvotes • proletarium

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How common was illegitimate birth in medieval Western Europe? Was "bastardry" a significant social inhibitor across all levels of society?

287 upvotes • Vladith

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"Over the past 200 years, women's clothes in the West have trended toward more revealing, while men's have remained more or less the same in terms of exposed skin." How true or false is this statement? And if true, what has been the impetus behind this trend?

287 upvotes • TheJucheisLoose

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Were the British as cruel to the Irish as they're depicted in The Wind That Shakes the Barley?

287 upvotes • fucky_fucky

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What was different about Medici banking practices that led to their fantastic wealth? Or were they just at the receiving end of many fortuitous investments?

287 upvotes • ForrSure

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Thirty Years War AMA

287 upvotes • Sid_Burn

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We all know that medieval and renaissance blacksmiths were flipping good. But what tools did they use? I'm especially interested in how could they have vices without screws and how the hell could they manufacture files

287 upvotes • Kiwikeeper

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I'm a young American woman in the mid-19th century and I don't ever want to get married. What sort of life--in terms of both professional life and family life--is open to me?

287 upvotes • pshypshy

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In Warcraft III, Arthas Menethil and his men went on a suicide mission. To prevent his men from fleeing, he burned his own ships, forcing them to complete their duty. Has this ever happened in our history?

287 upvotes • Sigral

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Did medieval era England have an operating black market? And if so, what was sold on it?

287 upvotes • friskyding01

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Title	Upvotes	Author	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
Since Thanksgiving was proclaimed a national holiday by Abraham Lincoln in 1863, was there any resistance to celebrating the holiday in the South after the Civil War?	287	proletarium
How common was illegitimate birth in medieval Western Europe? Was "bastardry" a significant social inhibitor across all levels of society?	287	Vladith
"Over the past 200 years, women's clothes in the West have trended toward more revealing, while men's have remained more or less the same in terms of exposed skin." How true or false is this statement? And if true, what has been the impetus behind this trend?	287	TheJucheisLoose
Were the British as cruel to the Irish as they're depicted in The Wind That Shakes the Barley?	287	fucky_fucky
What was different about Medici banking practices that led to their fantastic wealth? Or were they just at the receiving end of many fortuitous investments?	287	ForrSure
Thirty Years War AMA	287	Sid_Burn
We all know that medieval and renaissance blacksmiths were flipping good. But what tools did they use? I'm especially interested in how could they have vices without screws and how the hell could they manufacture files	287	Kiwikeeper
I'm a young American woman in the mid-19th century and I don't ever want to get married. What sort of life--in terms of both professional life and family life--is open to me?	287	pshypshy
In Warcraft III, Arthas Menethil and his men went on a suicide mission. To prevent his men from fleeing, he burned his own ships, forcing them to complete their duty. Has this ever happened in our history?	287	Sigral
Did medieval era England have an operating black market? And if so, what was sold on it?	287	friskyding01