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In Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand (via Francisco D'Anconia) suggests that Americans were the first to use the phrase "to make money." Is there any truth to this?

151 upvotes • chikindiner

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My friend claims FDR's administration's policies lengthened the great depression, is there any truth to this?

151 upvotes • DelayedTrain

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Why is it Confucian ideals have lasted so long in China among average people while the writings and theories of Socrates, who was around try same time as Confucius, are relegated to philosophers?

151 upvotes • nowlan101

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Were the Vandals any more destructive than other invading tribes during the fall of the Roman Empire, or was there another reason their name became connected with vandalism?

151 upvotes • Derpese_Simplex

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Thomas Jefferson famously described the then-nascent American presidency as a "bad edition of a Polish king." What made the election of the Polish king such a corrupt process?

151 upvotes • bumchala

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What happened to the Carthaginian people after the fall of Carthage?

151 upvotes • IAmALlamaHearMeRoar

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Occasionally I see projections of the year 2000 that were written at the turn of the twentieth century. What did projections of the future look like before the Industrial Revolution?

151 upvotes • katzensindkrieg

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Why didn't UN do anything about the genocide in Rwanda 1994?

151 upvotes • thegingerdude

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How did Constantine suddenly flip the stigmatized, cult-looking Christianity as the dominant religion in the Roman Empire without being persecuted? And why?

151 upvotes • Alliancee

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Pheidippides ran from Athens to Sparta, and then from Marathon to Athens whereupon he died from exhaustion. Why didn't he just ride a horse?

151 upvotes • depanneur

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In Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand (via Francisco D'Anconia) suggests that Americans were the first to use the phrase "to make money." Is there any truth to this?	151	chikindiner
My friend claims FDR's administration's policies lengthened the great depression, is there any truth to this?	151	DelayedTrain
Why is it Confucian ideals have lasted so long in China among average people while the writings and theories of Socrates, who was around try same time as Confucius, are relegated to philosophers?	151	nowlan101
Were the Vandals any more destructive than other invading tribes during the fall of the Roman Empire, or was there another reason their name became connected with vandalism?	151	Derpese_Simplex
Thomas Jefferson famously described the then-nascent American presidency as a "bad edition of a Polish king." What made the election of the Polish king such a corrupt process?	151	bumchala
What happened to the Carthaginian people after the fall of Carthage?	151	IAmALlamaHearMeRoar
Occasionally I see projections of the year 2000 that were written at the turn of the twentieth century. What did projections of the future look like before the Industrial Revolution?	151	katzensindkrieg
Why didn't UN do anything about the genocide in Rwanda 1994?	151	thegingerdude
How did Constantine suddenly flip the stigmatized, cult-looking Christianity as the dominant religion in the Roman Empire without being persecuted? And why?	151	Alliancee
Pheidippides ran from Athens to Sparta, and then from Marathon to Athens whereupon he died from exhaustion. Why didn't he just ride a horse?	151	depanneur