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In Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight, there was a character who says she's from Auckland, New Zealand. Given the timeframe of the movie being several years after the Civil War what potential motivations would someone from New Zealand have come all the way to the United States?

2726 upvotes • Chronos96

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Where is Jimmy Hoffa? Is his disappearance one of those mysteries that's only a mystery in public imagination? Is there a "Yeah, we haven't found his body, but this is almost certainly what happened..." thing going on with the case? Or no?

2725 upvotes • chikindiner

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Megathread: A brief history of September 11th, 2001 and a dedicated thread for your 9/11 questions

2724 upvotes • jbdyer

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Before 1967 when interracial marriage was illegal in all Southern states, was this prosecuted with different severity depending on whether the groom or the bride was the black partner in the marriage?

2723 upvotes • byzantine_meme

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My partner is curious about her African ancestry and loves mythology, but I know there is far less known about West African myths than say Greece or Mesopotamia. Where is a good place for me to start digging?

2723 upvotes • Pondmior13

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Was there slavery in heaven? How did the various christian sects in the American South and Caribbean expect slaves to be treated in the afterlife?

2722 upvotes • Booger_T_Washington

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Bigfoot, Twin Peaks, and sparkling vampires- where does the trope of supernatural or "weird" occurrences in the Pacific Northwest originate?

2722 upvotes • CommodoreCoCo

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What was considered basic human decency during the High Middle Ages?

2721 upvotes • [deleted]

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I would assume the people shouting "Segregation forever" didn't take down their "Whites only" signs the day after the Civil Rights Act or Voting Rights Act were signed. How did the implementation of those laws work? How did the segregationists resist?

2717 upvotes • ArmandoAlvarezWF

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Why does Mary have a boob ray and monkey slave in this Renaissance era cosmological diagram?

2716 upvotes • best_of_badgers

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In Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight, there was a character who says she's from Auckland, New Zealand. Given the timeframe of the movie being several years after the Civil War what potential motivations would someone from New Zealand have come all the way to the United States?	2726	Chronos96
Where is Jimmy Hoffa? Is his disappearance one of those mysteries that's only a mystery in public imagination? Is there a "Yeah, we haven't found his body, but this is almost certainly what happened..." thing going on with the case? Or no?	2725	chikindiner
Megathread: A brief history of September 11th, 2001 and a dedicated thread for your 9/11 questions	2724	jbdyer
Before 1967 when interracial marriage was illegal in all Southern states, was this prosecuted with different severity depending on whether the groom or the bride was the black partner in the marriage?	2723	byzantine_meme
My partner is curious about her African ancestry and loves mythology, but I know there is far less known about West African myths than say Greece or Mesopotamia. Where is a good place for me to start digging?	2723	Pondmior13
Was there slavery in heaven? How did the various christian sects in the American South and Caribbean expect slaves to be treated in the afterlife?	2722	Booger_T_Washington
Bigfoot, Twin Peaks, and sparkling vampires- where does the trope of supernatural or "weird" occurrences in the Pacific Northwest originate?	2722	CommodoreCoCo
What was considered basic human decency during the High Middle Ages?	2721	[deleted]
I would assume the people shouting "Segregation forever" didn't take down their "Whites only" signs the day after the Civil Rights Act or Voting Rights Act were signed. How did the implementation of those laws work? How did the segregationists resist?	2717	ArmandoAlvarezWF
Why does Mary have a boob ray and monkey slave in this Renaissance era cosmological diagram?	2716	best_of_badgers