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How Accurate Is Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States?

245 upvotes • ThunderMcCloud

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Medieval Kings and Nobility often had long hair. Would the average medieval man have long or short hair? When did short hair become more prevalent than long hair in males?

245 upvotes • AlphaWolf101

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Is there any historical basis to the theory that vampires' attributes are based on the symptoms of untreated type 1 diabetes?

245 upvotes • Zomgoose

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What is the history behind why someone born on American Samoa can't be a U.S. citizen, but any pregnant person can travel to one of the fifty U.S. states to give birth to a U.S. citizen?

245 upvotes • hillsfar

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How do historians have the capacity to peer review the work of their colleagues, in light of how specialized the field can be and how time consuming it would be to re-examine the sources used?

245 upvotes • [deleted]

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How did pre-modern soldiers keep time fairly for night watch?

245 upvotes • Willskydive4food

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How did Fosters beer go from being an Aussie favourite to nationally disdained. What caused this cultural shift to beers like VB?

245 upvotes • ZeTian

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70 years ago, Harry Truman ordered the desegregation of the United Stated armed forces with executive order 9981. What inspired him to take this step?

245 upvotes • td4999

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Was Castro’s alignment with the Soviet Union more out of necessity after the Cuban Revolution or due to similar political ideology?

245 upvotes • J2quared

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Why didn’t other American colonists mix cultures and have children to the extent the Spanish did?

245 upvotes • superzipzop

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Title	Upvotes	Author	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
How Accurate Is Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States?	245	ThunderMcCloud
Medieval Kings and Nobility often had long hair. Would the average medieval man have long or short hair? When did short hair become more prevalent than long hair in males?	245	AlphaWolf101
Is there any historical basis to the theory that vampires' attributes are based on the symptoms of untreated type 1 diabetes?	245	Zomgoose
What is the history behind why someone born on American Samoa can't be a U.S. citizen, but any pregnant person can travel to one of the fifty U.S. states to give birth to a U.S. citizen?	245	hillsfar
How do historians have the capacity to peer review the work of their colleagues, in light of how specialized the field can be and how time consuming it would be to re-examine the sources used?	245	[deleted]
How did pre-modern soldiers keep time fairly for night watch?	245	Willskydive4food
How did Fosters beer go from being an Aussie favourite to nationally disdained. What caused this cultural shift to beers like VB?	245	ZeTian
70 years ago, Harry Truman ordered the desegregation of the United Stated armed forces with executive order 9981. What inspired him to take this step?	245	td4999
Was Castro’s alignment with the Soviet Union more out of necessity after the Cuban Revolution or due to similar political ideology?	245	J2quared
Why didn’t other American colonists mix cultures and have children to the extent the Spanish did?	245	superzipzop