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Is It True That Pirate Ships During the Golden Age of Piracy Were Run Democratically?

2597 upvotes • AcceptableWay

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Why did the Italian/Spanish style of fencing with two weapons (a rapier and a parrying dagger) lose favor to the French style of fencing with a single blade?

2597 upvotes • TendingTheirGarden

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Holy Roman Empire is often made fun of for being essentially a formality with states inside having virtual independence. But France was also very decentralized in 1400s that its own vassal was their rival. How much of a difference was there?

2596 upvotes • 2012Jesusdies

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Is it true that in the 50's the average man could provide for his family by himself? (In contrast to now, where both man and woman seem to need to work to provide for the family)

2594 upvotes • ElGordoFreeman

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I heard that Brazil killed 85% of Paraguay's male population in a war. Was Paraguay really that unprepared for a war or was there other factors that lead to that defeat?

2594 upvotes • Troliver_13

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Since gay people weren’t allowed to serve in the military until pretty recently did draft dodgers pretend to be gay during the Vietnam war? What were the repercussions or roadblocks to doing so?

2594 upvotes • shot_collar

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At the time of Cleopatra, the pyramids and the Sphynx were already truly ancient monuments. Do we know what these monuments looked like at that time, in other words did they still have the original glorious, colourful and shiny exterior and how were they perceived by the royalty and the people?

2593 upvotes • uw888

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Why are angels depicted as humans with large white feathery wings, and when did this begin?

2592 upvotes • The_Manchurian

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Did people in ancient history notice that languages like Latin, Greek, Persian, and Sanskrit were similar? If so, how did they explain it?

2591 upvotes • Rumezi

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The famous Rumble in the Jungle fight between Ali and Foreman is estimated to have had a viewership of 1 billion, a quarter of the world population... There's no way that's accurate, right?

2591 upvotes • insertusernamehere51

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Title	Upvotes	Author	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
Is It True That Pirate Ships During the Golden Age of Piracy Were Run Democratically?	2597	AcceptableWay
Why did the Italian/Spanish style of fencing with two weapons (a rapier and a parrying dagger) lose favor to the French style of fencing with a single blade?	2597	TendingTheirGarden
Holy Roman Empire is often made fun of for being essentially a formality with states inside having virtual independence. But France was also very decentralized in 1400s that its own vassal was their rival. How much of a difference was there?	2596	2012Jesusdies
Is it true that in the 50's the average man could provide for his family by himself? (In contrast to now, where both man and woman seem to need to work to provide for the family)	2594	ElGordoFreeman
I heard that Brazil killed 85% of Paraguay's male population in a war. Was Paraguay really that unprepared for a war or was there other factors that lead to that defeat?	2594	Troliver_13
Since gay people weren’t allowed to serve in the military until pretty recently did draft dodgers pretend to be gay during the Vietnam war? What were the repercussions or roadblocks to doing so?	2594	shot_collar
At the time of Cleopatra, the pyramids and the Sphynx were already truly ancient monuments. Do we know what these monuments looked like at that time, in other words did they still have the original glorious, colourful and shiny exterior and how were they perceived by the royalty and the people?	2593	uw888
Why are angels depicted as humans with large white feathery wings, and when did this begin?	2592	The_Manchurian
Did people in ancient history notice that languages like Latin, Greek, Persian, and Sanskrit were similar? If so, how did they explain it?	2591	Rumezi
The famous Rumble in the Jungle fight between Ali and Foreman is estimated to have had a viewership of 1 billion, a quarter of the world population... There's no way that's accurate, right?	2591	insertusernamehere51