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Where did Japanese overwork culture come from?

211 upvotes • algerbanane

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Why do we not portray the horrors of Japanese war crimes in the media, at least not as much Germany and Italy?

211 upvotes • Sincerly_

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Theodore Roosevelt insulted his political opponents by comparing them unfavorably to guinea pigs. What did ordinary Americans know about guinea pigs at this time? Were they thought of as unusually stupid animals?

211 upvotes • Silas_Of_The_Lambs

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2022 In Reading: Share Your Reading List from the Past Year, and Plans for the Next One!

211 upvotes • Georgy_K_Zhukov

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Is it true that President Woodrow Wilson’s wife Edith was the unofficial “acting president” after Woodrow suffered a stroke in 1919? If so, how did she manage to do this without public outcry? If not, who was in power while Woodrow was incapacitated?

211 upvotes • CyborgAlgoInvestor

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I notice that 18th century philosophers tend to look fondly on Rome, referring to it as “free” or an exemplar of “liberty”. My conception of freedom is based around democracy and non-domination, so this seems absurd. What criteria did Enlightenment elite use to decide how “free” a society is?

211 upvotes • ChubbyHistorian

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We always hear about Soviet defectors, but what about US defectors. I’m sure they’re were plenty, so why do we never hear about them?

211 upvotes • PunjabiCanuck

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How soon did people start writing about secular prehistory - what we would call the Stone Age? Did any medieval or ancient writers speculate about a time before metal, open prehistoric barrows, etc?

211 upvotes • spice-hammer

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Macarena is a highly sexual and explicit song. How did it became the "fun dance song" outside of the Spanish speaking world?

211 upvotes • UndercoverDoll49

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Dan Carlin claims that each Greek city-state before Alexander the Great specialized in a different sort of military warfare and had different stereotypes, eg burly farmer Thebians. Is this accurate? What were some of the stereotypes?

210 upvotes • AnnalsPornographie

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Title	Upvotes	Author	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
Where did Japanese overwork culture come from?	211	algerbanane
Why do we not portray the horrors of Japanese war crimes in the media, at least not as much Germany and Italy?	211	Sincerly_
Theodore Roosevelt insulted his political opponents by comparing them unfavorably to guinea pigs. What did ordinary Americans know about guinea pigs at this time? Were they thought of as unusually stupid animals?	211	Silas_Of_The_Lambs
2022 In Reading: Share Your Reading List from the Past Year, and Plans for the Next One!	211	Georgy_K_Zhukov
Is it true that President Woodrow Wilson’s wife Edith was the unofficial “acting president” after Woodrow suffered a stroke in 1919? If so, how did she manage to do this without public outcry? If not, who was in power while Woodrow was incapacitated?	211	CyborgAlgoInvestor
I notice that 18th century philosophers tend to look fondly on Rome, referring to it as “free” or an exemplar of “liberty”. My conception of freedom is based around democracy and non-domination, so this seems absurd. What criteria did Enlightenment elite use to decide how “free” a society is?	211	ChubbyHistorian
We always hear about Soviet defectors, but what about US defectors. I’m sure they’re were plenty, so why do we never hear about them?	211	PunjabiCanuck
How soon did people start writing about secular prehistory - what we would call the Stone Age? Did any medieval or ancient writers speculate about a time before metal, open prehistoric barrows, etc?	211	spice-hammer
Macarena is a highly sexual and explicit song. How did it became the "fun dance song" outside of the Spanish speaking world?	211	UndercoverDoll49
Dan Carlin claims that each Greek city-state before Alexander the Great specialized in a different sort of military warfare and had different stereotypes, eg burly farmer Thebians. Is this accurate? What were some of the stereotypes?	210	AnnalsPornographie