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Title	Upvotes	Author
On a trip to Ellis Island, the cafeteria served roast beef, mashed potatoes and chow-chow (pickled relish), calling it a "traditional immigrant meal." Is this in any way accurate? What were immigrants at Ellis Island actually served? How plentiful and healthy were the food choices available?	237	George_S_Patton_III
In 1931 General Motors took a 100% stake in the German car manufacturer Opel. Yet during WWII they manufactured munitions for the Nazi's - How did this work? Did the Nazi government nationalise Opel and then ownership reverted to GM after the war?	237	Prey_Void_Ire
MEGATHREAD \| It’s the FINAL DAY of the AskHistorians Digital Conference 2020: ‘Business as Unusual: Histories of Rupture, Chaos, Revolution, and Change’!	237	crrpit
The United States ratified 7 constitutional amendments in the near 40-year period between 1932 and 1971 (Amendments 20-26). There's only been one constitutional amendment in the 50 years since then. Why did the US stop adding constitutional amendments?	237	[deleted]
I'm an average 18 year old man living in the north in 1861, why do I care if the South secedes? Why would preserving the union be important to me at all, let alone important enough to me that it was worth fighting and dying for?	237	reimperatore
I am an educated Haitian in 1956. A popular doctor who made his name by going to rural villages and curing people of typhus and yaws is running for President. Is it obvious to me what kind of President 'Papa Doc' will turn out to be? Are there any signs I might see that portend his dispotic rule?	237	ThucydidesOfAthens
Is there a working theory for how Ancient Egyptian Mummies tested positive for Cocaine and Nicotine?	237	JimHarbor
How well would an Indigenous North American from the 18th - 19th century (Old West era) fit in culturally with their counterparts of the same tribe from the 14th - 15th century? Would they share a similar dialect? Similar religious practices? Similar clothes? Similar arts?	237	Neveratalos
Why was 300 such a common unit size in the Ancient world?	237	LabesofAexonia
What are some historical examples of society successfully rejecting a technological change due to its social implications?	237	Converzati

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