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You are a central European commoner in the mid 1500s. What advancements in your daily life make you thankful its not the 1400s anymore?

1662 upvotes • jindianajonz

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If Christian kingdoms sent missionaries to the New World to spread Christianity there in the post-Columbus era, why didn't Muslim nations like the Ottoman Empire do the same to spread Islam?

1662 upvotes • PhenomenalPancake

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How many doctors and other professionals knew about the Tuskeegee Syphilis experiment? In 1965 Dr. Irwin Shatz read an article about it in a medical journal and wrote an outraged letter to the study’s authors. Was this a big journal? Was the study published repeatedly?

1662 upvotes • RegulatoryCapturedMe

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When people look back at Middle-Ages they are quick to identify with the peasants, the commoners and their plight, whereas when looking back on Classical Greece and Rome, they identify more easily with the citizen class and the philosophers. Why the difference and when did it started?

1662 upvotes • WAGRAMWAGRAM

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In Peaky Blinders, British cavalrymen are presented as being usually upper class. Tommy seemingly resents them for this, as well as their perceived failures in battle. Is it accurate that cavalry in WW1 were made up mostly of the upper class? And was this feeling common among infantry?

1662 upvotes • TyrodWatkins514

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Why do people say that Cleopatra was Greek, rather than Egyptian?

1662 upvotes • EquivalentInflation

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An English satirist once jokingly called NYC "Gotham." Since then, the name stuck. What was the joke here?

1661 upvotes • letrangerdesign

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In modern book culture, we have "flash-in-the-pan" novels and series that gain tremendous fame very quickly, but die and fall out of favor just as quickly as they rose (Twilight, 50 Shades of Grey, etc.). Is there any evidence of this happening, say, more than 100 years ago? Which authors/novels?

1661 upvotes • Inertia0811

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[META] Some Changes in Policies and Rules Please read

1660 upvotes • eternalkerri

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The AskHistorians Crimea thread - ask about the history of Russia, Ukraine and the Crimea.

1660 upvotes • Bernardito

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You are a central European commoner in the mid 1500s. What advancements in your daily life make you thankful its not the 1400s anymore?	1662	jindianajonz
If Christian kingdoms sent missionaries to the New World to spread Christianity there in the post-Columbus era, why didn't Muslim nations like the Ottoman Empire do the same to spread Islam?	1662	PhenomenalPancake
How many doctors and other professionals knew about the Tuskeegee Syphilis experiment? In 1965 Dr. Irwin Shatz read an article about it in a medical journal and wrote an outraged letter to the study’s authors. Was this a big journal? Was the study published repeatedly?	1662	RegulatoryCapturedMe
When people look back at Middle-Ages they are quick to identify with the peasants, the commoners and their plight, whereas when looking back on Classical Greece and Rome, they identify more easily with the citizen class and the philosophers. Why the difference and when did it started?	1662	WAGRAMWAGRAM
In Peaky Blinders, British cavalrymen are presented as being usually upper class. Tommy seemingly resents them for this, as well as their perceived failures in battle. Is it accurate that cavalry in WW1 were made up mostly of the upper class? And was this feeling common among infantry?	1662	TyrodWatkins514
Why do people say that Cleopatra was Greek, rather than Egyptian?	1662	EquivalentInflation
An English satirist once jokingly called NYC "Gotham." Since then, the name stuck. What was the joke here?	1661	letrangerdesign
In modern book culture, we have "flash-in-the-pan" novels and series that gain tremendous fame very quickly, but die and fall out of favor just as quickly as they rose (Twilight, 50 Shades of Grey, etc.). Is there any evidence of this happening, say, more than 100 years ago? Which authors/novels?	1661	Inertia0811
[META] Some Changes in Policies and Rules Please read	1660	eternalkerri
The AskHistorians Crimea thread - ask about the history of Russia, Ukraine and the Crimea.	1660	Bernardito