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My plays are over-full of jests bawdy and foul, and oft attended by the basest rascals, yet of late are reckon'd most exquisite art. How came this to be so?

221 upvotes • WilIiamShakespeare

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Titanic did not have enough lifeboats partly because the prevailing wisdom was that lifeboats would ferry passengers to a rescue ship. Titanic's sinking was one of the lengthiest of its era, with the nearest ship still over an hour away. Did people expect a sinking like that to take much longer?

221 upvotes • derstherower

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Do we have any idea what the Roman's thought the future would look like?

221 upvotes • -Constantinos-

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Origins of Dreadlocks?

221 upvotes • BlueBaron1701

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How do we estimate the world population from 2000 years ago?

221 upvotes • pevax

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What languages might have been spoken in Britain prior to the arrival of Celtic dialects?

221 upvotes • Vladith

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The Nanking Massacre occurred in 1937-38, but the Japanese continued to occupy the city until 1945. What was daily life like in the city after the massacre?

221 upvotes • Legitimate_Twist

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At their peak, what did the insides of the most beautifully decorated castles look like?

221 upvotes • WesternFilm

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Words that start with the letter J are fairly uncommon in English, but names that start with J are quite common. Is that a holdover from the origin of the names? A pattern in the way non-English names are translated into English, a result of change in pronunciation of older names, or something else?

221 upvotes • CocoChunks

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When did Mary (mother of God) become a "virgin", and is the popularity multiple virgins & virgin holidays the result of a more modern phenomenon, like the mixing of American indigenous traditions with Christianity?

221 upvotes • xilanthro

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My plays are over-full of jests bawdy and foul, and oft attended by the basest rascals, yet of late are reckon'd most exquisite art. How came this to be so?	221	WilIiamShakespeare
Titanic did not have enough lifeboats partly because the prevailing wisdom was that lifeboats would ferry passengers to a rescue ship. Titanic's sinking was one of the lengthiest of its era, with the nearest ship still over an hour away. Did people expect a sinking like that to take much longer?	221	derstherower
Do we have any idea what the Roman's thought the future would look like?	221	-Constantinos-
Origins of Dreadlocks?	221	BlueBaron1701
How do we estimate the world population from 2000 years ago?	221	pevax
What languages might have been spoken in Britain prior to the arrival of Celtic dialects?	221	Vladith
The Nanking Massacre occurred in 1937-38, but the Japanese continued to occupy the city until 1945. What was daily life like in the city after the massacre?	221	Legitimate_Twist
At their peak, what did the insides of the most beautifully decorated castles look like?	221	WesternFilm
Words that start with the letter J are fairly uncommon in English, but names that start with J are quite common. Is that a holdover from the origin of the names? A pattern in the way non-English names are translated into English, a result of change in pronunciation of older names, or something else?	221	CocoChunks
When did Mary (mother of God) become a "virgin", and is the popularity multiple virgins & virgin holidays the result of a more modern phenomenon, like the mixing of American indigenous traditions with Christianity?	221	xilanthro