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How likely was it that a 33 year old Galilean laborer during the late Second Temple period wasn't married with children?

192 upvotes • imaginethecave

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What caused the Celtic expansions across Europe, and then the later Germanic expansions? Were there any shared causes?

192 upvotes • Al-Quti

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What made the Soviet Union a super power? Why isn't Russia one now?

192 upvotes • oslo02

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What inventions can 100% be attributed to Thomas Edison?

192 upvotes • BenTide

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I often see people who say 'Russia' to mean the Soviet Union get corrected. To what extent is it accurate to say that the Russian component was the ruling portion of the Soviet state apparatus?

192 upvotes • mrsaturdaypants

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‘Don’t forget Harold, the last English King before the Norman Conquest, was Orthodox.’ Has this any truth? in it?

192 upvotes • imagineyoung

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Did Mayan cotton armor really stack up to steel armor?

192 upvotes • taqfu

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Following World War 2, what was the global reaction to the reinstatement of the Colonial Empires of the newly liberated nations of France and The Netherlands? Was this not seen as hypocritical?

192 upvotes • DrZaius2015

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What exactly was Yukio Mishima attempting to do?

192 upvotes • MemeCannonMK1

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In Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings films, cavalry seem to plough through infantry like they're bowling pins. What would a late medieval cavalry charge actually look like to eyewitnesses?

192 upvotes • st_sebastian

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Title	Upvotes	Author	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
How likely was it that a 33 year old Galilean laborer during the late Second Temple period wasn't married with children?	192	imaginethecave
What caused the Celtic expansions across Europe, and then the later Germanic expansions? Were there any shared causes?	192	Al-Quti
What made the Soviet Union a super power? Why isn't Russia one now?	192	oslo02
What inventions can 100% be attributed to Thomas Edison?	192	BenTide
I often see people who say 'Russia' to mean the Soviet Union get corrected. To what extent is it accurate to say that the Russian component was the ruling portion of the Soviet state apparatus?	192	mrsaturdaypants
‘Don’t forget Harold, the last English King before the Norman Conquest, was Orthodox.’ Has this any truth? in it?	192	imagineyoung
Did Mayan cotton armor really stack up to steel armor?	192	taqfu
Following World War 2, what was the global reaction to the reinstatement of the Colonial Empires of the newly liberated nations of France and The Netherlands? Was this not seen as hypocritical?	192	DrZaius2015
What exactly was Yukio Mishima attempting to do?	192	MemeCannonMK1
In Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings films, cavalry seem to plough through infantry like they're bowling pins. What would a late medieval cavalry charge actually look like to eyewitnesses?	192	st_sebastian