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I just found out one of the Chernobyl reactors remained operational until 2000. How could people keep going to work there every day, post 1986? Especially given that there’s an exclusion zone and visitors (even now) have to be extremely careful while there?

170 upvotes • Dance_pirate

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What did knights in the Late Middle Ages wear while in enemy territory or on the march? Did they wear some of their armour or did they go mainly unarmoured when not in battle?

170 upvotes • markeljachson

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[META] Why are certain scholarly history books SO prohibitively expensive?

170 upvotes • princetonwu

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AMA: Jacobitism, Anti-Jacobitism, and the Jacobite Rising of 1745

170 upvotes • FunkyPlaid

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Why where UK and France allied in WW1? Wouldn't a German UK alliance make more sense considering their history with France?

170 upvotes • johnnydues

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Are German and Austrian soldiers of WW1 remembered the same way we (British, ANZACS etc) remember ours? Or are they ostracized like those of Nazi Germany?

170 upvotes • LemonAioli

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I am a Condottieri captain in the Middle Ages - Let's say the 13th century. How do potential employers hear about my company? What kind of agreements are put in place - Do I sign a contract? What happens if I break those agreements (because of a bribe, or to avoid putting my company at risk)?

170 upvotes • hedgehog_dragon

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Were there any sacrifices or battles lost intentionally to conceal information that would have won the greater war? Example: the (false) story about the British knowing that Coventry was going to be bombed in WW2

170 upvotes • BlahBlahNyborg

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Did Alexander the Great actually face defeat or even challenges in Afghanistan?

170 upvotes • ottolouis

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Do we have knowledge if Beowulf was considered 'special' at it's time or was it one of many but it's the one that survived to us?

170 upvotes • Skoteinoi

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I just found out one of the Chernobyl reactors remained operational until 2000. How could people keep going to work there every day, post 1986? Especially given that there’s an exclusion zone and visitors (even now) have to be extremely careful while there?	170	Dance_pirate
What did knights in the Late Middle Ages wear while in enemy territory or on the march? Did they wear some of their armour or did they go mainly unarmoured when not in battle?	170	markeljachson
[META] Why are certain scholarly history books SO prohibitively expensive?	170	princetonwu
AMA: Jacobitism, Anti-Jacobitism, and the Jacobite Rising of 1745	170	FunkyPlaid
Why where UK and France allied in WW1? Wouldn't a German UK alliance make more sense considering their history with France?	170	johnnydues
Are German and Austrian soldiers of WW1 remembered the same way we (British, ANZACS etc) remember ours? Or are they ostracized like those of Nazi Germany?	170	LemonAioli
I am a Condottieri captain in the Middle Ages - Let's say the 13th century. How do potential employers hear about my company? What kind of agreements are put in place - Do I sign a contract? What happens if I break those agreements (because of a bribe, or to avoid putting my company at risk)?	170	hedgehog_dragon
Were there any sacrifices or battles lost intentionally to conceal information that would have won the greater war? Example: the (false) story about the British knowing that Coventry was going to be bombed in WW2	170	BlahBlahNyborg
Did Alexander the Great actually face defeat or even challenges in Afghanistan?	170	ottolouis
Do we have knowledge if Beowulf was considered 'special' at it's time or was it one of many but it's the one that survived to us?	170	Skoteinoi