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Did Stanislav Petrov, the Soviet officer who failed to launch a counter-attack on the United States when his missile detection system told him they were under attack, ever face any repercussions for his hesitation?

2423 upvotes • Lundy98

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Do Russians romanticise eastern expansion (Siberia) the same way America has westerns and books about frontier? Why/why not?

2423 upvotes • Hnnnnnn

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It's year XXXX of your specialty. A dead body is discovered in the middle of a well populated area and the overwhelming evidence suggests he was murdered. Is anyone in charge of finding the killer? What is the attitude of the public and is there an expectation of justice?

2422 upvotes • Id_rather_be_eating

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Disney's "Aladdin," released in 1992, included Robin Williams's Genie giving two impressions of William F. Buckley, Jr. What position did Buckley have in the political scene in the early '90's to warrant two impressions in a Disney movie?

2422 upvotes • mrpeabodyscoaltrain

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Did the Vikings that raided and invaded England during the 8th to 10th centuries know that they shared kinship with the Anglo-Saxons? And could they understand each other's Germanic language?

2422 upvotes • [deleted]

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Did medieval cities have addresses like we do today?

2422 upvotes • AssumeThisNamesFunny

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The 1893 Sherlock Holmes story “The Adventure of the Yellow Face” depicts an interracial relationship and a mixed-race child with what seems like astonishing open-mindedness for the time period. What was the reaction to this when it was published?

2422 upvotes • Rob-With-One-B

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In the beginning of the Godfather, Don Corleone is seen doing favors to a community of Italian immigrants in New York, did the mafia in America actually do this during this period or was it just a romanticized view of post-war organized crime?

2421 upvotes • Gantson

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I once heard a Jewish Studies professor say the Nazis won the narrative about the Holocaust and how we talk about Jewish people. Was he right?

2421 upvotes • underfoot_loki

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Would Native American tribes in the eastern United States such as the Iroquois, have known about tribes in the West such as the Apache?

2420 upvotes • Tanner_umich

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Title	Upvotes	Author	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
Did Stanislav Petrov, the Soviet officer who failed to launch a counter-attack on the United States when his missile detection system told him they were under attack, ever face any repercussions for his hesitation?	2423	Lundy98
Do Russians romanticise eastern expansion (Siberia) the same way America has westerns and books about frontier? Why/why not?	2423	Hnnnnnn
It's year XXXX of your specialty. A dead body is discovered in the middle of a well populated area and the overwhelming evidence suggests he was murdered. Is anyone in charge of finding the killer? What is the attitude of the public and is there an expectation of justice?	2422	Id_rather_be_eating
Disney's "Aladdin," released in 1992, included Robin Williams's Genie giving two impressions of William F. Buckley, Jr. What position did Buckley have in the political scene in the early '90's to warrant two impressions in a Disney movie?	2422	mrpeabodyscoaltrain
Did the Vikings that raided and invaded England during the 8th to 10th centuries know that they shared kinship with the Anglo-Saxons? And could they understand each other's Germanic language?	2422	[deleted]
Did medieval cities have addresses like we do today?	2422	AssumeThisNamesFunny
The 1893 Sherlock Holmes story “The Adventure of the Yellow Face” depicts an interracial relationship and a mixed-race child with what seems like astonishing open-mindedness for the time period. What was the reaction to this when it was published?	2422	Rob-With-One-B
In the beginning of the Godfather, Don Corleone is seen doing favors to a community of Italian immigrants in New York, did the mafia in America actually do this during this period or was it just a romanticized view of post-war organized crime?	2421	Gantson
I once heard a Jewish Studies professor say the Nazis won the narrative about the Holocaust and how we talk about Jewish people. Was he right?	2421	underfoot_loki
Would Native American tribes in the eastern United States such as the Iroquois, have known about tribes in the West such as the Apache?	2420	Tanner_umich