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How did the Republican Party became known as the ‘Grand Old Party’ despite the Democrats being more than 30 years older?

220 upvotes • Divorcefrenchodad

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How bourgeois were the bourgeois revolutions (American, French etc) in reality? Did the bourgeois have clear consciousness and act as a "class for itself" in a Marxian sense or was it projected as such by Marx and others?

220 upvotes • Shashank1000

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1850’s San Francisco built over water?

220 upvotes • RodentaGrande

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I just realized I’ve never seen Maori, Polynesians, or Hawaiians depicted with bows and arrows, why is this the case?

220 upvotes • Throughaweighakount

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My apartment block got levelled during the Blitz. What am I entitled to after reconstruction ? Exact same size apartment ? Do I need to pay for it myself ?

220 upvotes • NEXTGENMONKEY

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1984 was published in 1949, Josef Stalin was alive at this time, could he have, or did he read 1984?

220 upvotes • PostingLoudly

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How did the Original Pakistan (today's Pakistan + Bangladesh) function as a single country?

220 upvotes • lifeontheQtrain

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What’s all this stuff President Kennedy kept on his Oval Office desk? (pic)

220 upvotes • George4Mayor86

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Did historians in Rome in 200 AD have a deeper knowledge of Roman history than historians of the present day?

220 upvotes • Ori_553

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Why didn’t the Soviet Union have a “cultural revolution” like Maoist China, Year Zero Cambodia, or Jacobin France?

220 upvotes • ryosaito

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Title	Upvotes	Author	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
How did the Republican Party became known as the ‘Grand Old Party’ despite the Democrats being more than 30 years older?	220	Divorcefrenchodad
How bourgeois were the bourgeois revolutions (American, French etc) in reality? Did the bourgeois have clear consciousness and act as a "class for itself" in a Marxian sense or was it projected as such by Marx and others?	220	Shashank1000
1850’s San Francisco built over water?	220	RodentaGrande
I just realized I’ve never seen Maori, Polynesians, or Hawaiians depicted with bows and arrows, why is this the case?	220	Throughaweighakount
My apartment block got levelled during the Blitz. What am I entitled to after reconstruction ? Exact same size apartment ? Do I need to pay for it myself ?	220	NEXTGENMONKEY
1984 was published in 1949, Josef Stalin was alive at this time, could he have, or did he read 1984?	220	PostingLoudly
How did the Original Pakistan (today's Pakistan + Bangladesh) function as a single country?	220	lifeontheQtrain
What’s all this stuff President Kennedy kept on his Oval Office desk? (pic)	220	George4Mayor86
Did historians in Rome in 200 AD have a deeper knowledge of Roman history than historians of the present day?	220	Ori_553
Why didn’t the Soviet Union have a “cultural revolution” like Maoist China, Year Zero Cambodia, or Jacobin France?	220	ryosaito