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Pirates liked the Bahamas because they could traverse the dangerously shallow waters with their smaller vessels to escape larger enemy ships. How big was too big for a ship to sail through the Bahamian archipelago in the Golden Age of Piracy?

243 upvotes • NikKerk

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Why did Rome become a lesser city in its own Empire?

243 upvotes • Credulous7

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How did the bronze age peoples survive harsh winters?

243 upvotes • kdpadua

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How scholarly respected is Indy Neidell's "the Great War" channel?

243 upvotes • TheZeroAlchemist

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Is Beowulf only considered a classic because all other long OE literary works that it might have competed with have been lost?

243 upvotes • JJVMT

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What we’re the reactions of Americans seeing white Brazilians under the command of black Brazilian officers in Italy during WW2?

243 upvotes • RealKeanuReeves

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50 years later, is there any consensus on how close France was to outright revolution or civil war in May 1968? What factors prevented the massive civil unrest from boiling over, even after De Gaulle fled the country?

243 upvotes • Inb4username

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How difficult was it to design Chess? Was there multiple, evolving versions of it? How did it spread across the globe like it has?

243 upvotes • NotBrendan

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Ron Swanson says “Birthdays were invented by Hallmark to sell cards.” How long have people been celebrating their days of birth? Have birthday parties always been an event or is that more modern in nature?

243 upvotes • roflmaohaxorz

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How were Maori battles staged so there was time for a Haka beforehand?

243 upvotes • beerbellybegone

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Title	Upvotes	Author	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
Pirates liked the Bahamas because they could traverse the dangerously shallow waters with their smaller vessels to escape larger enemy ships. How big was too big for a ship to sail through the Bahamian archipelago in the Golden Age of Piracy?	243	NikKerk
Why did Rome become a lesser city in its own Empire?	243	Credulous7
How did the bronze age peoples survive harsh winters?	243	kdpadua
How scholarly respected is Indy Neidell's "the Great War" channel?	243	TheZeroAlchemist
Is Beowulf only considered a classic because all other long OE literary works that it might have competed with have been lost?	243	JJVMT
What we’re the reactions of Americans seeing white Brazilians under the command of black Brazilian officers in Italy during WW2?	243	RealKeanuReeves
50 years later, is there any consensus on how close France was to outright revolution or civil war in May 1968? What factors prevented the massive civil unrest from boiling over, even after De Gaulle fled the country?	243	Inb4username
How difficult was it to design Chess? Was there multiple, evolving versions of it? How did it spread across the globe like it has?	243	NotBrendan
Ron Swanson says “Birthdays were invented by Hallmark to sell cards.” How long have people been celebrating their days of birth? Have birthday parties always been an event or is that more modern in nature?	243	roflmaohaxorz
How were Maori battles staged so there was time for a Haka beforehand?	243	beerbellybegone