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How Long Did Islam Survive Among Slaves in the American South and How Did it Impact African American Culture?

2156 upvotes • Spengler-Chan

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Why did the US reprivatize railroads after World War 1, despite the vast majority of rail workers supporting keeping nationalization?

2156 upvotes • Ok-Establishment2381

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Why did the CIA Director Richard Helms order for employees of CIA to destroy, in 1973, many classified files pertaining to MKUltra, namely their work with LSD?

2155 upvotes • MarhsalMurat

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We as a civilization lost the ability to create concrete with the fall of Rome and didn't figure out the process again till the 19th century. What exactly happened that caused such a valuable tool to not be passed on in any way?

2154 upvotes • twosplits

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How did Death Metal become so popular in Sweden, Norway and Finland?

2154 upvotes • GlumTown6

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[Meta] This sub was better when the questions could be less specific but the answers had to be more substantial.

2153 upvotes • Tasadar

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What is the most recent consensus on the fate of skyjacker D.B. Cooper? Have any recent historical investigations offered anything new?

2152 upvotes • petite-acorn

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Did Victorian women get sweaty and smelly dancing in heavy dresses?

2152 upvotes • no1name

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The Arab Slave trade took many slaves from varous regions over the course of a thousand years, including Africa, Europe and India. Why does there seem to be no major ethnic groups descended from these slaves in the present day?

2152 upvotes • rakust

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I'm a mathematician in ancient Rome. We have a huge economy with bankers and ledgers, plenty of land, and troops, all needing counting. But can Roman numerals even handle fractions, negatives, and complex math? Or what would I be using?

2152 upvotes • indecisive_maybe

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Title	Upvotes	Author	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
How Long Did Islam Survive Among Slaves in the American South and How Did it Impact African American Culture?	2156	Spengler-Chan
Why did the US reprivatize railroads after World War 1, despite the vast majority of rail workers supporting keeping nationalization?	2156	Ok-Establishment2381
Why did the CIA Director Richard Helms order for employees of CIA to destroy, in 1973, many classified files pertaining to MKUltra, namely their work with LSD?	2155	MarhsalMurat
We as a civilization lost the ability to create concrete with the fall of Rome and didn't figure out the process again till the 19th century. What exactly happened that caused such a valuable tool to not be passed on in any way?	2154	twosplits
How did Death Metal become so popular in Sweden, Norway and Finland?	2154	GlumTown6
[Meta] This sub was better when the questions could be less specific but the answers had to be more substantial.	2153	Tasadar
What is the most recent consensus on the fate of skyjacker D.B. Cooper? Have any recent historical investigations offered anything new?	2152	petite-acorn
Did Victorian women get sweaty and smelly dancing in heavy dresses?	2152	no1name
The Arab Slave trade took many slaves from varous regions over the course of a thousand years, including Africa, Europe and India. Why does there seem to be no major ethnic groups descended from these slaves in the present day?	2152	rakust
I'm a mathematician in ancient Rome. We have a huge economy with bankers and ledgers, plenty of land, and troops, all needing counting. But can Roman numerals even handle fractions, negatives, and complex math? Or what would I be using?	2152	indecisive_maybe