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Why is Greece known by a significantly different name (Yunan) in India and the middle east? And how did the two different names come to be?

2004 upvotes • _o_O_o_O_o_

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Ancient Athens seems to have lacked the apartment buildings of ancient Rome. So did most people live in small single-family homes? Should we imagine these as row houses? What would the living situation be like for the working poor and middle class? Were there slums?

2003 upvotes • RusticBohemian

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How easy was to get new identity and "vanish" at the end of WW2?

2002 upvotes • JustStayingThere

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Why did artists from the Middle Ages depict real world things in such a bizarre way?

2002 upvotes • vexed_chexmix

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AMA: The Manhattan Project

2001 upvotes • restricteddata

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How did Iroquois tribes have sexual relationships in long houses? NSFW

2001 upvotes • Burtonpoelives

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How did pizza come to be associated with "rad", kid, cool surfer culture in the 80s and 90s?

2001 upvotes • ObsidianSquid

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Taking AskHistorians Community Input on Next Steps

2001 upvotes • Georgy_K_Zhukov

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IAMA History lecturer who is an expert on the social history of seafarers, particularly British sailors during the 16th-18th centuries, and I teach a module on piracy. AMA about maritime history, the sailor's life, piracy, the Royal Navy, and empire.

1997 upvotes • DrRichardBlakemore

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There are several companies that helped Hitler build his war machine, such as Porsche and Maybach. Were these companies ever assigned blame or did they ever address that fact? It seems funny to me that these companies are successful to this day yet they seem to have a dark spot in history.

1997 upvotes • herroimyerro22

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Title	Upvotes	Author	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
Why is Greece known by a significantly different name (Yunan) in India and the middle east? And how did the two different names come to be?	2004	_o_O_o_O_o_
Ancient Athens seems to have lacked the apartment buildings of ancient Rome. So did most people live in small single-family homes? Should we imagine these as row houses? What would the living situation be like for the working poor and middle class? Were there slums?	2003	RusticBohemian
How easy was to get new identity and "vanish" at the end of WW2?	2002	JustStayingThere
Why did artists from the Middle Ages depict real world things in such a bizarre way?	2002	vexed_chexmix
AMA: The Manhattan Project	2001	restricteddata
How did Iroquois tribes have sexual relationships in long houses? NSFW	2001	Burtonpoelives
How did pizza come to be associated with "rad", kid, cool surfer culture in the 80s and 90s?	2001	ObsidianSquid
Taking AskHistorians Community Input on Next Steps	2001	Georgy_K_Zhukov
IAMA History lecturer who is an expert on the social history of seafarers, particularly British sailors during the 16th-18th centuries, and I teach a module on piracy. AMA about maritime history, the sailor's life, piracy, the Royal Navy, and empire.	1997	DrRichardBlakemore
There are several companies that helped Hitler build his war machine, such as Porsche and Maybach. Were these companies ever assigned blame or did they ever address that fact? It seems funny to me that these companies are successful to this day yet they seem to have a dark spot in history.	1997	herroimyerro22