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[Review] Lets watch this movie "Le Roi"

169 upvotes • John_the_Fearless

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The “Clean Wehrmacht” narrative has been debunked regarding the Heer’s conduct, but the “Clean Kriegsmarine” narrative persists largely unchallenged. How clean was the Kriegsmarine?

169 upvotes • Tough_Guys_Wear_Pink

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I'm looking to read ten books that will cover "all" of world history from its beginning; what ten books should I read?

169 upvotes • [deleted]

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Did construction technology only improve rapidly in the last centuries or why was Napoleon bragging about how his bridge building was better than Caesar's 1800 years ago?

169 upvotes • Durdel

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Was there an anti-vaccine movement before Andrew Wakefield's fraudulent study in 1998?

169 upvotes • LorenzoApophis

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I'm a polymath and inventor in 1830s England. One of my ideas requires "a sheet of paper a thousand feet long." Where do I get such a long piece of paper, and how much does it cost?

169 upvotes • envatted_love

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Did an "Asterix and Obelix" village really exist?

169 upvotes • zakelijke

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Have any historians argued that the War of 1812 was actually just motivated by early US expansionism, and that the impressed US sailors issue was only used as a convenient casus belli?

169 upvotes • KatsumotoKurier

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Why does Liechtenstein exist?

169 upvotes • 6FeetAheadGameDev

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I'm reading about the Aztecs and the Maya and it seems that being killed in a sacrifice was a normal and socially accepted way of ending one's life. My question is: did they mourn their dead? Did they feel the absence of loved ones? Did they feel attached to one another?

169 upvotes • katzenpflanzen

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Title	Upvotes	Author	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
[Review] Lets watch this movie "Le Roi"	169	John_the_Fearless
The “Clean Wehrmacht” narrative has been debunked regarding the Heer’s conduct, but the “Clean Kriegsmarine” narrative persists largely unchallenged. How clean was the Kriegsmarine?	169	Tough_Guys_Wear_Pink
I'm looking to read ten books that will cover "all" of world history from its beginning; what ten books should I read?	169	[deleted]
Did construction technology only improve rapidly in the last centuries or why was Napoleon bragging about how his bridge building was better than Caesar's 1800 years ago?	169	Durdel
Was there an anti-vaccine movement before Andrew Wakefield's fraudulent study in 1998?	169	LorenzoApophis
I'm a polymath and inventor in 1830s England. One of my ideas requires "a sheet of paper a thousand feet long." Where do I get such a long piece of paper, and how much does it cost?	169	envatted_love
Did an "Asterix and Obelix" village really exist?	169	zakelijke
Have any historians argued that the War of 1812 was actually just motivated by early US expansionism, and that the impressed US sailors issue was only used as a convenient casus belli?	169	KatsumotoKurier
Why does Liechtenstein exist?	169	6FeetAheadGameDev
I'm reading about the Aztecs and the Maya and it seems that being killed in a sacrifice was a normal and socially accepted way of ending one's life. My question is: did they mourn their dead? Did they feel the absence of loved ones? Did they feel attached to one another?	169	katzenpflanzen