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President Woodrow Wilson suffered a debilitating stroke in 1919, leaving him mostly blind and partially paralyzed. He spent the last 17 months of his presidency sequestered in the White House. How capable and mentally fit was he? Why didn't the vice president take over? Why didn't Wilson step down?

2522 upvotes • RusticBohemian

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Did the citizens of the Soviet Union have any popular conspiracy theories comparable to the American fascination with JFK or Area 51?

2521 upvotes • TroubleEntendre

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Picture a Roman soldier: odds are that you're thinking of a man wearing a lorica segmentata, a rectangular scutum and a gallic helmet. Out of a millenium of evolution in Roman military technology, how did this specific set of 1st/2nd century equipment become so iconic? You don't see it in older art.

2521 upvotes • fan_of_the_pikachu

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I'm a peasant in 1066 in Warwick. How and when would I find out that some guy name William from Normandy got crowned king of England?

2519 upvotes • SirAn0n

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How "loyal" have newly appointed US Supreme Court Justices been to the agendas of Presidents who nominated them? Has this loyalty, if it exists, degraded or gotten stronger since the nation's founding?

2518 upvotes • George_S_Patton_III

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Where are we on "No Irish Need Apply", historically/historiographically speaking?

2517 upvotes • CptBuck

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Why were so many pioneers of philosophy and technology Scottish?

2516 upvotes • NauticalTwee

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The 7th Amendment to the US constitution guarantees the right to a jury trial in civil cases where the value exceeds $20. Did the authors not know about inflation?

2516 upvotes • MKorostoff

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suppose I'm the son of a Maharaja studying at Oxford in the 1890s. Will I be excluded in anyway socially excluded because of my race, or does my high class insulate me from that kind of thing?

2515 upvotes • grapp

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The Roman's claimed that they were descendants from the Trojans, specifically Aeneas. Why would the Romans want to associate themselves with one of history's biggest losers?

2515 upvotes • Chrisehh

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President Woodrow Wilson suffered a debilitating stroke in 1919, leaving him mostly blind and partially paralyzed. He spent the last 17 months of his presidency sequestered in the White House. How capable and mentally fit was he? Why didn't the vice president take over? Why didn't Wilson step down?	2522	RusticBohemian
Did the citizens of the Soviet Union have any popular conspiracy theories comparable to the American fascination with JFK or Area 51?	2521	TroubleEntendre
Picture a Roman soldier: odds are that you're thinking of a man wearing a lorica segmentata, a rectangular scutum and a gallic helmet. Out of a millenium of evolution in Roman military technology, how did this specific set of 1st/2nd century equipment become so iconic? You don't see it in older art.	2521	fan_of_the_pikachu
I'm a peasant in 1066 in Warwick. How and when would I find out that some guy name William from Normandy got crowned king of England?	2519	SirAn0n
How "loyal" have newly appointed US Supreme Court Justices been to the agendas of Presidents who nominated them? Has this loyalty, if it exists, degraded or gotten stronger since the nation's founding?	2518	George_S_Patton_III
Where are we on "No Irish Need Apply", historically/historiographically speaking?	2517	CptBuck
Why were so many pioneers of philosophy and technology Scottish?	2516	NauticalTwee
The 7th Amendment to the US constitution guarantees the right to a jury trial in civil cases where the value exceeds $20. Did the authors not know about inflation?	2516	MKorostoff
suppose I'm the son of a Maharaja studying at Oxford in the 1890s. Will I be excluded in anyway socially excluded because of my race, or does my high class insulate me from that kind of thing?	2515	grapp
The Roman's claimed that they were descendants from the Trojans, specifically Aeneas. Why would the Romans want to associate themselves with one of history's biggest losers?	2515	Chrisehh