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How did The Hague get such a strange name--including the word 'The'?

144 upvotes • SystemicMystic

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Has a nation's translator ever skewed an important translation? Have any major events been avoided or created this way?

144 upvotes • aristarch

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Why did Opium addict and oppress the Chinese so much, while neighboring countries such as Japan and Korea seemed relatively unaffected?

144 upvotes • ComradeZooey

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Did map makers in Europe during the American civil war include the confederacy?

144 upvotes • alexxerth

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How do you guys feel about the history in the Youtube video series Crash Course?

144 upvotes • NomadFire

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AMA about New York City history!

144 upvotes • Yearsnowlost

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Why wasn't the use of semi-automatic rifles as widespread (besides the US) among those involved in WWII?

144 upvotes • Coastty

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After Mexican-American War, why did the United States not claim Mexico?

144 upvotes • L1AM

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I'm an "Aryan" citizen of occupied Europe in 1942, I have just murdered a Jewish man over a petty squabble in broad daylight in front of a local (non German) police station, what becomes of me?

144 upvotes • Kiwi_Force

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If you handed an Iphone to a group of engineers in 1985, how much of its technology would they understand as they disassembled and studied it?

144 upvotes • killermorris

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Title	Upvotes	Author	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
How did The Hague get such a strange name--including the word 'The'?	144	SystemicMystic
Has a nation's translator ever skewed an important translation? Have any major events been avoided or created this way?	144	aristarch
Why did Opium addict and oppress the Chinese so much, while neighboring countries such as Japan and Korea seemed relatively unaffected?	144	ComradeZooey
Did map makers in Europe during the American civil war include the confederacy?	144	alexxerth
How do you guys feel about the history in the Youtube video series Crash Course?	144	NomadFire
AMA about New York City history!	144	Yearsnowlost
Why wasn't the use of semi-automatic rifles as widespread (besides the US) among those involved in WWII?	144	Coastty
After Mexican-American War, why did the United States not claim Mexico?	144	L1AM
I'm an "Aryan" citizen of occupied Europe in 1942, I have just murdered a Jewish man over a petty squabble in broad daylight in front of a local (non German) police station, what becomes of me?	144	Kiwi_Force
If you handed an Iphone to a group of engineers in 1985, how much of its technology would they understand as they disassembled and studied it?	144	killermorris