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Did any minor titles of nobility exist for colonial holdings in the United States prior to the revolution?

260 upvotes • Hahahahahaga

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What was the Middle Eastern culture like before Islam?

260 upvotes • K3vanata

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What do historians think was in the 18-minute gap on Nixon's tape of June 20, 1972?

260 upvotes • JoeBourgeois

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Did JFK have any plans for dealing with a military coup? I know the possibility was probably extremely remote in his mind, but didn't certain generals like Curtis LeMay border on outright insubordination? Or is that an exaggeration?

260 upvotes • chikindiner

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How much math would a Civil War battery commander know? The individual gunners? What sort of math did they know?

260 upvotes • mrpeabodyscoaltrain

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How accurate is Neil Gaiman's Norse Mythology?

260 upvotes • Pandamage

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Why did Milosevic have such an easy time rising to power and breaking up Yugoslavia?

260 upvotes • lobobricord

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Does the idea of a mob of townsfolk wielding torches and pitchforks in some Germanic setting have any historical precedent, or was it invented by Universal Studies for its Frankenstein movies of the 1930s and '40s?

260 upvotes • JJVMT

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Why do Chinese spears and swords have tassels on them?

260 upvotes • no-tea

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What sort of border controls would medieval European countries have had?

260 upvotes • Franky_Tops

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Title	Upvotes	Author	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
Did any minor titles of nobility exist for colonial holdings in the United States prior to the revolution?	260	Hahahahahaga
What was the Middle Eastern culture like before Islam?	260	K3vanata
What do historians think was in the 18-minute gap on Nixon's tape of June 20, 1972?	260	JoeBourgeois
Did JFK have any plans for dealing with a military coup? I know the possibility was probably extremely remote in his mind, but didn't certain generals like Curtis LeMay border on outright insubordination? Or is that an exaggeration?	260	chikindiner
How much math would a Civil War battery commander know? The individual gunners? What sort of math did they know?	260	mrpeabodyscoaltrain
How accurate is Neil Gaiman's Norse Mythology?	260	Pandamage
Why did Milosevic have such an easy time rising to power and breaking up Yugoslavia?	260	lobobricord
Does the idea of a mob of townsfolk wielding torches and pitchforks in some Germanic setting have any historical precedent, or was it invented by Universal Studies for its Frankenstein movies of the 1930s and '40s?	260	JJVMT
Why do Chinese spears and swords have tassels on them?	260	no-tea
What sort of border controls would medieval European countries have had?	260	Franky_Tops