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How did the cosmonauts aboard Mir react to the break up of the Soviet Union?

2627 upvotes • content_gator

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What exactly were the Japanese Fart Wars? NSFW

2627 upvotes • YoungRockyRacoon

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Cousin marriage is extremely widespread in the Greater Middle East. How consanguineous marriages become prevalent in the Middle East? Have any of Islamic scholars written about negative consequences of close kin marriages?

2626 upvotes • Kerkinitis

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My mother and grandmother keep saying that living in the Soviet Union was way better than it is now because during then there was alot of food with cheap prices and i hardly believe that,was it actually true or am I getting brainwashed?

2625 upvotes • PPfromthefuture

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So Where did High Heels REALLY Come From?

2625 upvotes • KittyScholar

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Was Hans Christian Andersen mentally disabled or just really eccentric?

2625 upvotes • Frigorifico

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I just read a medieval text in which a man claims the human soul does not exist and that there is no afterlife. How common was such atheistic thought in the Middle-Ages?

2624 upvotes • Toen6

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Recently Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk has been receiving some criticisms for not portraying a more diverse British army and being labelled as a whitewash. Is there any validity to these claims? How diverse was the British army during WW2 and the battle of Dunkirk?

2623 upvotes • dafjer

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On a recent trip to Athens, I noticed that most museums and historical sites made almost no mention of the city's centuries of Ottoman rule, and very little medieval history. Why don't they generally view the city's medieval and early-modern history as worthy of commemoration and display?

2623 upvotes • J-Force

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Why weren’t German Americans and Italian Americans detained in large proportions during WWII, while Japanese Americans were?

2623 upvotes • Jojuj

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Title	Upvotes	Author	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
How did the cosmonauts aboard Mir react to the break up of the Soviet Union?	2627	content_gator
What exactly were the Japanese Fart Wars? NSFW	2627	YoungRockyRacoon
Cousin marriage is extremely widespread in the Greater Middle East. How consanguineous marriages become prevalent in the Middle East? Have any of Islamic scholars written about negative consequences of close kin marriages?	2626	Kerkinitis
My mother and grandmother keep saying that living in the Soviet Union was way better than it is now because during then there was alot of food with cheap prices and i hardly believe that,was it actually true or am I getting brainwashed?	2625	PPfromthefuture
So Where did High Heels REALLY Come From?	2625	KittyScholar
Was Hans Christian Andersen mentally disabled or just really eccentric?	2625	Frigorifico
I just read a medieval text in which a man claims the human soul does not exist and that there is no afterlife. How common was such atheistic thought in the Middle-Ages?	2624	Toen6
Recently Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk has been receiving some criticisms for not portraying a more diverse British army and being labelled as a whitewash. Is there any validity to these claims? How diverse was the British army during WW2 and the battle of Dunkirk?	2623	dafjer
On a recent trip to Athens, I noticed that most museums and historical sites made almost no mention of the city's centuries of Ottoman rule, and very little medieval history. Why don't they generally view the city's medieval and early-modern history as worthy of commemoration and display?	2623	J-Force
Why weren’t German Americans and Italian Americans detained in large proportions during WWII, while Japanese Americans were?	2623	Jojuj