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What was the general international reaction to the Night of the Long Knives incident in Germany?

168 upvotes • v0lcano

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(Last time asking) What was happening in Spain during WW1? Why did they remain neutral and who advocated for war? What other pressures (internal or external) did Spain have to combat to remain neutral? What was the economic outcome of the war on Spain? Did WW1 impact on the Spanish Civil War?

168 upvotes • nuttyalmond

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Floating Feature: What historical fiction covering your field do you feel accurately captures the feel of the period?

168 upvotes • Georgy_K_Zhukov

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In the first Season of Rome there's a scene where you see pigs being cut up in a butchers shop, they look very large, hairless and pink, very much like modern domestic pigs. Did Pigs look like that 2000 years ago (IE before selective breeding was well understood)?

168 upvotes • grapp

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What foods did the Romans eat daily and in high quantities?

168 upvotes • babanz

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Why did the North American Bison never take off as a source of beef?

168 upvotes • Freeloading_Sponger

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How did the Spanish anarchist movement get so large whilst anarchist groups in other countries remained small?

168 upvotes • comix_corp

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I'm Dr Andrew Mangham - AMA about literature and the history of science, crime, medicine, early forensics, Victorian popular culture and attitudes to death, violent women in sensation fiction, and Charles Dickens.

168 upvotes • DrAndrewMangham

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How did early (pre-European contact) Native American culture view homosexuality?

168 upvotes • Heartofanother

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Did the Soviet Union receive immigrants apart from some Americans in 1930's? Did the Government have an official Immigration policy?

168 upvotes • Shashank1000

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What was the general international reaction to the Night of the Long Knives incident in Germany?	168	v0lcano
(Last time asking) What was happening in Spain during WW1? Why did they remain neutral and who advocated for war? What other pressures (internal or external) did Spain have to combat to remain neutral? What was the economic outcome of the war on Spain? Did WW1 impact on the Spanish Civil War?	168	nuttyalmond
Floating Feature: What historical fiction covering your field do you feel accurately captures the feel of the period?	168	Georgy_K_Zhukov
In the first Season of Rome there's a scene where you see pigs being cut up in a butchers shop, they look very large, hairless and pink, very much like modern domestic pigs. Did Pigs look like that 2000 years ago (IE before selective breeding was well understood)?	168	grapp
What foods did the Romans eat daily and in high quantities?	168	babanz
Why did the North American Bison never take off as a source of beef?	168	Freeloading_Sponger
How did the Spanish anarchist movement get so large whilst anarchist groups in other countries remained small?	168	comix_corp
I'm Dr Andrew Mangham - AMA about literature and the history of science, crime, medicine, early forensics, Victorian popular culture and attitudes to death, violent women in sensation fiction, and Charles Dickens.	168	DrAndrewMangham
How did early (pre-European contact) Native American culture view homosexuality?	168	Heartofanother
Did the Soviet Union receive immigrants apart from some Americans in 1930's? Did the Government have an official Immigration policy?	168	Shashank1000