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Zeus uses an animal form a couple of times whilst doing the sex, but was zoophillia commonly accepted and practiced by a normal person from Ancient Greece?

247 upvotes • [deleted]

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During medieval wartime, in military camps, did soldiers sleep with armour on? How about knights in full plate armour? Also, how historically relevant is the leather armour found in popular gaming / movies culture today?

247 upvotes • on_two_legs

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What name did the Sassanids use for the Roman empire and/or it's people?

247 upvotes • Feurisson

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Is Bismarck regarded as a hero or villain in Germany?

247 upvotes • FBossMan

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What sort of background (financially, ethnically and religiously) did the first generation of Mormons come from? Why did they they want to take Smith seriously?

247 upvotes • grapp

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What changed around 1600 that enabled the French and English to begin colonizing?

247 upvotes • jackironwood

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People have lived in southern Florida longer than the Everglades ecosystem has existed. In what ways have human habitation activity contributed to the creation and early evolution of the Everglades?

247 upvotes • StringOfLights

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Is Korean reunification comparable to German reunification?

247 upvotes • clipeuh

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Why did people begin to consider the Byzantine Empire as distinct from the Roman Empire in modern historical discussion when there's really nothing to separate them two?

247 upvotes • bluerobot27

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Many dictatorships (Gaddafi, Tito, Hussein, Assad) end up devolving into violence and chaos in response to the leadership vaccum that occurs when the dictator either grows incredibly or dies. Why then did the dictatorships of Spain and South Korea not do the same when their dictators died?

247 upvotes • nowlan101

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Zeus uses an animal form a couple of times whilst doing the sex, but was zoophillia commonly accepted and practiced by a normal person from Ancient Greece?	247	[deleted]
During medieval wartime, in military camps, did soldiers sleep with armour on? How about knights in full plate armour? Also, how historically relevant is the leather armour found in popular gaming / movies culture today?	247	on_two_legs
What name did the Sassanids use for the Roman empire and/or it's people?	247	Feurisson
Is Bismarck regarded as a hero or villain in Germany?	247	FBossMan
What sort of background (financially, ethnically and religiously) did the first generation of Mormons come from? Why did they they want to take Smith seriously?	247	grapp
What changed around 1600 that enabled the French and English to begin colonizing?	247	jackironwood
People have lived in southern Florida longer than the Everglades ecosystem has existed. In what ways have human habitation activity contributed to the creation and early evolution of the Everglades?	247	StringOfLights
Is Korean reunification comparable to German reunification?	247	clipeuh
Why did people begin to consider the Byzantine Empire as distinct from the Roman Empire in modern historical discussion when there's really nothing to separate them two?	247	bluerobot27
Many dictatorships (Gaddafi, Tito, Hussein, Assad) end up devolving into violence and chaos in response to the leadership vaccum that occurs when the dictator either grows incredibly or dies. Why then did the dictatorships of Spain and South Korea not do the same when their dictators died?	247	nowlan101