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In "Cunk on Earth", Egyptologist Tyledesly says "I don't think they had many homeless people in ancient Egypt. People looked after each other, I think." Did ancient Egypt (or other ancient societies) not experience homelessness as we know it today?

2097 upvotes • Wombfresh

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Obviously, the Trail of Tears is regarded by many as one of the worst events sanctioned by the American government. At the time, what was the average opinion of the events that were taking place?

2096 upvotes • NippleChan69

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Did Frederick the Great really use reverse potato psychology on his subjects?

2096 upvotes • Journeyman12

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Why is Robin Hood so heavily associated with that particular hat?

2096 upvotes • Jerswar

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A modern battleship (ca. 2000 CE) would mop the floor with the USS Constitution, built ~200 years earlier. To what extent would the USS Constitution outmatch a ship built ~200 years before its time?

2094 upvotes • TheWalrus469

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Did the Mulakkaram (breast tax) ever exist and are the stories around it true?

2093 upvotes • Reactionaryhistorian

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The poetry English soldiers wrote during the Great War is some of the most renowned in the English speaking world. Did WWI similarly inspire poetry in German, French, and/or Russia? And if so, how does it thematically compare to poems like “The Soldier” or “Dulce et Decorum Est”?

2092 upvotes • BolsheMick

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East Indian Trading Company: How did they become so powerful, what happened to them and does any version/merger of the EITC still exist today?

2092 upvotes • [deleted]

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Where did the lore of trolls, elves, dwarfs etc originate from? Are they from the same source or time period?

2090 upvotes • ref_

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"If Gustavus Adolphus rose up from the dead ... and was magically transported to the western front in 1914, he would have understood the underlying concepts governing warfare with little difficulty" How true is this statement? In what ways did the underlying concepts stay the same for 300 years?

2090 upvotes • Skogsmard

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In "Cunk on Earth", Egyptologist Tyledesly says "I don't think they had many homeless people in ancient Egypt. People looked after each other, I think." Did ancient Egypt (or other ancient societies) not experience homelessness as we know it today?	2097	Wombfresh
Obviously, the Trail of Tears is regarded by many as one of the worst events sanctioned by the American government. At the time, what was the average opinion of the events that were taking place?	2096	NippleChan69
Did Frederick the Great really use reverse potato psychology on his subjects?	2096	Journeyman12
Why is Robin Hood so heavily associated with that particular hat?	2096	Jerswar
A modern battleship (ca. 2000 CE) would mop the floor with the USS Constitution, built ~200 years earlier. To what extent would the USS Constitution outmatch a ship built ~200 years before its time?	2094	TheWalrus469
Did the Mulakkaram (breast tax) ever exist and are the stories around it true?	2093	Reactionaryhistorian
The poetry English soldiers wrote during the Great War is some of the most renowned in the English speaking world. Did WWI similarly inspire poetry in German, French, and/or Russia? And if so, how does it thematically compare to poems like “The Soldier” or “Dulce et Decorum Est”?	2092	BolsheMick
East Indian Trading Company: How did they become so powerful, what happened to them and does any version/merger of the EITC still exist today?	2092	[deleted]
Where did the lore of trolls, elves, dwarfs etc originate from? Are they from the same source or time period?	2090	ref_
"If Gustavus Adolphus rose up from the dead ... and was magically transported to the western front in 1914, he would have understood the underlying concepts governing warfare with little difficulty" How true is this statement? In what ways did the underlying concepts stay the same for 300 years?	2090	Skogsmard