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The word Mohammedan was once commonly used around the world. How did it fall out of use?

156 upvotes • cestabhi

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How did members of the Weather Underground mostly escape punishment and rejoin the upper class/high status professions/whatever you want to call it? How "elite" were their upbringings, overall?

156 upvotes • edwardtaughtme

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Were spoons a symbol of lesbianism in the early to mid 1900s?

156 upvotes • GrandpasMormonBooks

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How did "esquire", a rank of nobility that were apprentices to knights, come to be the title for lawyers?

156 upvotes • derstherower

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Robert Carro's biographies of Lyndon Johnson allege that all state-wide elections in Texas at that time involved quite widespread vote buying & manipulation among disenfranchized latino border areas. When and how did this apparent and consequential election fraud end?

156 upvotes • Wulfrinnan

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When did 18 become the standard age for adulthood?

156 upvotes • DareToDaredevil

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Do we have any real reason to believe the dreamtime stories are anywhere near as ancient as people seem to assume they are?

156 upvotes • MaxAugust

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What was the industry reaction by other game developers when Super Mario 64 came out? Did developers openly express it was setting a new standard in the industry?

156 upvotes • [deleted]

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Was the USSR ever a "superpower" who could rival the US in terms of economic strength, military spending/army size, or industrial capacity?

156 upvotes • Daisy_with_a_D

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I read that Muslim slave traders deliberately checked the expansion of Islam so they might have pagan preserves from which to gather slaves? Is this true, is there Islamic record of it?

156 upvotes • Remote_Doughnut_5261

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Title	Upvotes	Author	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
The word Mohammedan was once commonly used around the world. How did it fall out of use?	156	cestabhi
How did members of the Weather Underground mostly escape punishment and rejoin the upper class/high status professions/whatever you want to call it? How "elite" were their upbringings, overall?	156	edwardtaughtme
Were spoons a symbol of lesbianism in the early to mid 1900s?	156	GrandpasMormonBooks
How did "esquire", a rank of nobility that were apprentices to knights, come to be the title for lawyers?	156	derstherower
Robert Carro's biographies of Lyndon Johnson allege that all state-wide elections in Texas at that time involved quite widespread vote buying & manipulation among disenfranchized latino border areas. When and how did this apparent and consequential election fraud end?	156	Wulfrinnan
When did 18 become the standard age for adulthood?	156	DareToDaredevil
Do we have any real reason to believe the dreamtime stories are anywhere near as ancient as people seem to assume they are?	156	MaxAugust
What was the industry reaction by other game developers when Super Mario 64 came out? Did developers openly express it was setting a new standard in the industry?	156	[deleted]
Was the USSR ever a "superpower" who could rival the US in terms of economic strength, military spending/army size, or industrial capacity?	156	Daisy_with_a_D
I read that Muslim slave traders deliberately checked the expansion of Islam so they might have pagan preserves from which to gather slaves? Is this true, is there Islamic record of it?	156	Remote_Doughnut_5261