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What did childcare consist of in nomad families? Particularly when it comes to cleaning dirty clothes on the steppe and in the desert. As a new father, I would love to know how babies stayed clean.

160 upvotes • Suboutai

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Why did Muskogee/ Creek Indians send their kids to Scotland to get educated in the late 1700s and early 1800s?

160 upvotes • PersikovsLizard

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Why did ANZAC troops in Vietnam seemingly forgo helmets entirely, despite helmets be in wide use among the Americans, the ROK, and the ARVN?

160 upvotes • Nordic_ned

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It is commonly know that a lot of Americans were using heroin during the Vietnam war, I was wondering how did they get it? Surely there wasn’t a lot of heroin going around in Vietnam

160 upvotes • DaveOrBatman

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The USSR and their various Committees and Ministries are often depicted as having been dysfunctional because of the poor incentive structures from communist philosophy. To specific Committees and Ministries, why were some run poorly, and were any run well? (services/products that rivaled the US)

160 upvotes • crazyguzz1

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Has Russia ever considered moving from the Cyrillic alphabet to the Latin alphabet?

160 upvotes • tylercoder

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Why did the English language never develop a regulatory body like the Académie française or Accademia della Crusca?

160 upvotes • Goat_im_Himmel

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In historiography, we often cast a critical eye upon writings from the past and question the methods and influences upon the writer. Have contemporary historians done any "predictive historiography" about what historians of the future might think about the way history is done today?

160 upvotes • Odnahc

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Bill Clinton became good friends with Bush Sr. and Dole both of whom were his opponents in elections. What other interparty friendships between presidential rivals have there been besides the famous Adams - Jefferson duo?

160 upvotes • profnachos

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Jesus’s first follower were Jewish, they believed he was the Jewish Messiah - why is their faith considered a new religion?

160 upvotes • uconnrob

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Title	Upvotes	Author	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
What did childcare consist of in nomad families? Particularly when it comes to cleaning dirty clothes on the steppe and in the desert. As a new father, I would love to know how babies stayed clean.	160	Suboutai
Why did Muskogee/ Creek Indians send their kids to Scotland to get educated in the late 1700s and early 1800s?	160	PersikovsLizard
Why did ANZAC troops in Vietnam seemingly forgo helmets entirely, despite helmets be in wide use among the Americans, the ROK, and the ARVN?	160	Nordic_ned
It is commonly know that a lot of Americans were using heroin during the Vietnam war, I was wondering how did they get it? Surely there wasn’t a lot of heroin going around in Vietnam	160	DaveOrBatman
The USSR and their various Committees and Ministries are often depicted as having been dysfunctional because of the poor incentive structures from communist philosophy. To specific Committees and Ministries, why were some run poorly, and were any run well? (services/products that rivaled the US)	160	crazyguzz1
Has Russia ever considered moving from the Cyrillic alphabet to the Latin alphabet?	160	tylercoder
Why did the English language never develop a regulatory body like the Académie française or Accademia della Crusca?	160	Goat_im_Himmel
In historiography, we often cast a critical eye upon writings from the past and question the methods and influences upon the writer. Have contemporary historians done any "predictive historiography" about what historians of the future might think about the way history is done today?	160	Odnahc
Bill Clinton became good friends with Bush Sr. and Dole both of whom were his opponents in elections. What other interparty friendships between presidential rivals have there been besides the famous Adams - Jefferson duo?	160	profnachos
Jesus’s first follower were Jewish, they believed he was the Jewish Messiah - why is their faith considered a new religion?	160	uconnrob