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The Christian West and the Buddhist East are vastly different cultural spheres, yet both have strong monastic traditions. What societal, economic, or cultural factors contributed to this development and why didn't monastic tradition emerge in other well established religions such as Islam?

176 upvotes • JPaulFellows

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Do we have records of people experiencing/being observed with the symptoms now diagnosed as autism in the peasant/working classes of Early Modern Europe? If so, what was their experience like?

176 upvotes • StannisIsNoMannis

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The Tokyo Stock Exchange was in operation all the way through WWII until the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. What were the conditions of the Japanese stock market like during the war, especially as Japan began to lose and Tokyo and other major cities were firebombed?

176 upvotes • Legitimate_Twist

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Roman emperors often had idealized statues of their physique made, but Nero let it all hang out. His coinage and statues feature a fleshy face and double chin. Do we know why he didn't have artists "photoshop" his appearance? Was this fidelity to reality unusual in emperors?

176 upvotes • RusticBohemian

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Why is Egyptology treated as a corpus of knowledge of its own and we don't see that with other civilizations/places?

176 upvotes • ponjoso

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What kind of support garments (if any) did women wear in the Ottoman Empire and further East?

176 upvotes • dlcrx

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How did Albania actually fall into the whole Pyramid and Ponzi schemes that lead to their civil war in 1997?

176 upvotes • potatoandbiscuit

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In the Ip Man movies Chinese people bow to each other with one closed fist covered by the other hand, instead of the palms-together bow used in Japan, Thailand, and other Asian countries. Is this historically accurate, and if so what accounts for the difference?

176 upvotes • bulscu

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Was it legal for a British newspaper or person to openly and publically support the Patriots/Americans during the Revolutionary War in Great Britain? Or was this considered treason?

176 upvotes • Alert32

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Why is broth “clear” in western cooking?

176 upvotes • DeliciousFold2894

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The Christian West and the Buddhist East are vastly different cultural spheres, yet both have strong monastic traditions. What societal, economic, or cultural factors contributed to this development and why didn't monastic tradition emerge in other well established religions such as Islam?	176	JPaulFellows
Do we have records of people experiencing/being observed with the symptoms now diagnosed as autism in the peasant/working classes of Early Modern Europe? If so, what was their experience like?	176	StannisIsNoMannis
The Tokyo Stock Exchange was in operation all the way through WWII until the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. What were the conditions of the Japanese stock market like during the war, especially as Japan began to lose and Tokyo and other major cities were firebombed?	176	Legitimate_Twist
Roman emperors often had idealized statues of their physique made, but Nero let it all hang out. His coinage and statues feature a fleshy face and double chin. Do we know why he didn't have artists "photoshop" his appearance? Was this fidelity to reality unusual in emperors?	176	RusticBohemian
Why is Egyptology treated as a corpus of knowledge of its own and we don't see that with other civilizations/places?	176	ponjoso
What kind of support garments (if any) did women wear in the Ottoman Empire and further East?	176	dlcrx
How did Albania actually fall into the whole Pyramid and Ponzi schemes that lead to their civil war in 1997?	176	potatoandbiscuit
In the Ip Man movies Chinese people bow to each other with one closed fist covered by the other hand, instead of the palms-together bow used in Japan, Thailand, and other Asian countries. Is this historically accurate, and if so what accounts for the difference?	176	bulscu
Was it legal for a British newspaper or person to openly and publically support the Patriots/Americans during the Revolutionary War in Great Britain? Or was this considered treason?	176	Alert32
Why is broth “clear” in western cooking?	176	DeliciousFold2894