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Today, brutalist buildings seem pretty universally hated by the people who live and work in them. Why were so many of them built in the 50s-70s? Was it just a cost-saving method, or did people think they looked good?
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Larry Flint faced considerable backlash against his publications and became a political lightening rod in the '70s (a relatively liberal cultural time); why didn't Hugh Hefner face similar backlash establishing himself in a seemingly much more conservative time (the '50s), or did he?) NSFW
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In New Orleans, Delphine LaLaurie was arrested & tried at least once for mistreatment of slaves & her house was burned down by an angry mob in 1834. What made her level of brutality so scandalous & what separated it, legally and socially, from the "acceptable" brutality of day-to-day slave life?
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Did Confederate leaders see slavery lasting indefinitely? Were there plans to eventually phase-out the institution years down the line after the Civil War, or was it assumed that it would last forever?
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In popular culture and meme posts there's a stereotype correlating living in Southern states and incest. Is there any historical reason why this stereotype is a thing? Why aren't Northern American states associated with this stereotype instead?
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My grandmother says that basically nobody in east germany wanted to merge with west germany in 1989, they just wanted a right to travel. Is this true?
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In the movie Gladiator, Russell Crowe's character Maximus is taken as a slave from his own villa. What recourse did Roman Citizens and others have against being kidnapped and sold into slavery within the Roman Empire?
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