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"Fifty years ago, historians advised politicians and policy-makers. [...] But then something changed, and we began making decisions based on economic principles rather than historical ones." How true is this? And how well do views in this article represent historians in general?

189 upvotes • jnanin

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When, how, why did every military on the planet adopt a more or less identical hierarchy of ranks?

189 upvotes • ZankerH

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How did the Japanese view the Mongol conquest of East Asia?

189 upvotes • CaptainofChickens

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[Meta] What with the spat of racist/badhistory questions lately, can we get an American Civil War AMA from our flairs?

189 upvotes • TacticusPrime

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Supposedly the 'Red Ripper' evaded detection for so long because the USSR believed serial killers to exist exclusively within capitalist societies. Is this a valid historical viewpoint within the Communist and/or Soviet movement?

189 upvotes • eeeeeep

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My great grandfather did some job that involved army supplies during WWII, he had access to blank ration books and he use to steal them so his family could buy more stuff. in Britain How serious would that crime have been treated (in terms of sentencing & public reaction) at the time?

189 upvotes • grapp

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What is the oldest mythic creature we have a record of?

189 upvotes • entirelyalive

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Do we have any ancient/medival (say pre 1400) Chinese world maps? How much did they know of the outside world?

189 upvotes • ALABAMA_LEPRECHAUN_

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How did the Islamic empires during 600-1400 create (in terms of religion, trade, scholarship, art, technology, etc.) a single community that linked cultures of three continents and provided continuity with the Roman and Hellenistic worlds?

189 upvotes • swifthide

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Every country in Southeast Asia has a very established and very old Chinese minority. But how did these communities come about?

189 upvotes • Vladith

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"Fifty years ago, historians advised politicians and policy-makers. [...] But then something changed, and we began making decisions based on economic principles rather than historical ones." How true is this? And how well do views in this article represent historians in general?	189	jnanin
When, how, why did every military on the planet adopt a more or less identical hierarchy of ranks?	189	ZankerH
How did the Japanese view the Mongol conquest of East Asia?	189	CaptainofChickens
[Meta] What with the spat of racist/badhistory questions lately, can we get an American Civil War AMA from our flairs?	189	TacticusPrime
Supposedly the 'Red Ripper' evaded detection for so long because the USSR believed serial killers to exist exclusively within capitalist societies. Is this a valid historical viewpoint within the Communist and/or Soviet movement?	189	eeeeeep
My great grandfather did some job that involved army supplies during WWII, he had access to blank ration books and he use to steal them so his family could buy more stuff. in Britain How serious would that crime have been treated (in terms of sentencing & public reaction) at the time?	189	grapp
What is the oldest mythic creature we have a record of?	189	entirelyalive
Do we have any ancient/medival (say pre 1400) Chinese world maps? How much did they know of the outside world?	189	ALABAMA_LEPRECHAUN_
How did the Islamic empires during 600-1400 create (in terms of religion, trade, scholarship, art, technology, etc.) a single community that linked cultures of three continents and provided continuity with the Roman and Hellenistic worlds?	189	swifthide
Every country in Southeast Asia has a very established and very old Chinese minority. But how did these communities come about?	189	Vladith