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What's the farthest back in time an oral history, religious text, or other form of mythology, goes or mentions? Aside from creation or the beginning of time

282 upvotes • bingbongbizzle

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Has there ever been an example of a private corperation fighting a full scale war against a sovereign country?

282 upvotes • PM_me_ur_fricatives

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Why did the Vietnam war last for so long, and why did it end the way it did?

282 upvotes • erl1

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Why is it that mass transportation in America was never fully developed? In addition, why did America grow such a large car culture?

282 upvotes • 2pppppppppppppp6

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The Rubik's cube was invented in Hungary in 1974. Tetris was created in 1984 in Moscow. Was there something about Eastern bloc culture in that era that made spatial puzzles particularly appealing? Also how were they marketed in Communist countries and how were they popularized in the West?

282 upvotes • ArmandoAlvarezWF

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Is the concept of mental ilness a modern phenomenon?

282 upvotes • ApolloCarmb

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For centuries the Habsburg family increased its land through fortunate and opportunistic marriages across Europe, then the Habsburgs started only marrying their niece and close cousins. What happened? Did they just become risk-averse as they approached hegemony?

282 upvotes • mrsaturdaypants

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What what Carthage doing during the Greco-Persian Wars and Alexander the Great?

282 upvotes • Robert_Jarman

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I'm watching Manhunt: Unabomber and in it Ted Kaczynski says he was a part of MKUltra (CIA mind control experiments) is all this true? What really was MKUltra and how do we know about it?

282 upvotes • Stanleys_on_holiday

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One of the most prominent images associated with the Khmer Rouge of Cambodia in the West is a pile of skulls, often in a cave. Why and when did this image become prominent in Western imagery of Cambodia, and what were the reasons that people's remains were arranged in this way?

282 upvotes • hillsonghoods

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What's the farthest back in time an oral history, religious text, or other form of mythology, goes or mentions? Aside from creation or the beginning of time	282	bingbongbizzle
Has there ever been an example of a private corperation fighting a full scale war against a sovereign country?	282	PM_me_ur_fricatives
Why did the Vietnam war last for so long, and why did it end the way it did?	282	erl1
Why is it that mass transportation in America was never fully developed? In addition, why did America grow such a large car culture?	282	2pppppppppppppp6
The Rubik's cube was invented in Hungary in 1974. Tetris was created in 1984 in Moscow. Was there something about Eastern bloc culture in that era that made spatial puzzles particularly appealing? Also how were they marketed in Communist countries and how were they popularized in the West?	282	ArmandoAlvarezWF
Is the concept of mental ilness a modern phenomenon?	282	ApolloCarmb
For centuries the Habsburg family increased its land through fortunate and opportunistic marriages across Europe, then the Habsburgs started only marrying their niece and close cousins. What happened? Did they just become risk-averse as they approached hegemony?	282	mrsaturdaypants
What what Carthage doing during the Greco-Persian Wars and Alexander the Great?	282	Robert_Jarman
I'm watching Manhunt: Unabomber and in it Ted Kaczynski says he was a part of MKUltra (CIA mind control experiments) is all this true? What really was MKUltra and how do we know about it?	282	Stanleys_on_holiday
One of the most prominent images associated with the Khmer Rouge of Cambodia in the West is a pile of skulls, often in a cave. Why and when did this image become prominent in Western imagery of Cambodia, and what were the reasons that people's remains were arranged in this way?	282	hillsonghoods