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Why did the USSR collapse so rapidly in the 90s?

253 upvotes • wordchump123

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How accurate is The Witcher 3's portrayal of medieval villages, towns and cities?

253 upvotes • Vatlaaw

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Suppose an infantry formation is marching toward contact in a melee battle. Someone in the formation gets felled (but not killed) by an arrow. Would all of his fellows just trample over him? To what extent did archers effectively break up infantry formations for this reason?

253 upvotes • TobyTheRobot

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What were the environmental effects on the jungle after the Vietnam War?

253 upvotes • ambrogi5421

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What would the armies at the Battle of Tours (733) look like?

253 upvotes • CastIron42

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During the Cimbrian War, after succesfully defeating both Teutones and Cimbri (and the other allied tribes), Marius and his army are said to take tens of thousands of captives. How were they able to contain an army worth of prisoners without the war effort coming to a complete halt?

253 upvotes • LukeInTheSkyWith

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How and when did sushi, formerly a "street food" in Japan, become regarded as high-class cuisine in the rest of the world, particularly the U.S.?

253 upvotes • Euralos

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When Southern US States seceded, did their Congressional Representatives leave immediately?

253 upvotes • freshthrowaway1138

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This week's theme: Feminism

253 upvotes • rusoved

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Given that human conquest seems to be ubiquitous in all of history through most any challenge, how did the Basque people of Spain remain so isolated, to the point where centuries and centuries go by where they still have a language unrelated to any of their surrounding neighbors?

253 upvotes • kick_my_wood

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Title	Upvotes	Author	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
Why did the USSR collapse so rapidly in the 90s?	253	wordchump123
How accurate is The Witcher 3's portrayal of medieval villages, towns and cities?	253	Vatlaaw
Suppose an infantry formation is marching toward contact in a melee battle. Someone in the formation gets felled (but not killed) by an arrow. Would all of his fellows just trample over him? To what extent did archers effectively break up infantry formations for this reason?	253	TobyTheRobot
What were the environmental effects on the jungle after the Vietnam War?	253	ambrogi5421
What would the armies at the Battle of Tours (733) look like?	253	CastIron42
During the Cimbrian War, after succesfully defeating both Teutones and Cimbri (and the other allied tribes), Marius and his army are said to take tens of thousands of captives. How were they able to contain an army worth of prisoners without the war effort coming to a complete halt?	253	LukeInTheSkyWith
How and when did sushi, formerly a "street food" in Japan, become regarded as high-class cuisine in the rest of the world, particularly the U.S.?	253	Euralos
When Southern US States seceded, did their Congressional Representatives leave immediately?	253	freshthrowaway1138
This week's theme: Feminism	253	rusoved
Given that human conquest seems to be ubiquitous in all of history through most any challenge, how did the Basque people of Spain remain so isolated, to the point where centuries and centuries go by where they still have a language unrelated to any of their surrounding neighbors?	253	kick_my_wood