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What were periods like for medieval women?

1619 upvotes • because_lions

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Wikipedia has the Praetorian Guard on it's list of secret police forces. Do you think it's appropriate to call them that?

1618 upvotes • grapp

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How did Spanish and Portuguese become so different despite being based off of the same language and having no major geographic barriers separating them?

1618 upvotes • CaprioPeter

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Was it common for both duelists to die in sword duels?

1618 upvotes • dutch_penguin

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Ancient Babylon: Did they really practice public deflowering of virgins via ritualized sex in the name of some goddess?

1617 upvotes • serendipity12x

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Were the battlefields of the First World War considered an “obstacle” during the second?

1617 upvotes • RealHunterB

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Why didn't the United States take more Mexican land than they did after the Mexican-American war?

1616 upvotes • NormanQuacks345

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Gobekli Tepe: Is there scholarly consensus about which possibilities remain on the table: (1) maybe we have the age of the Gobekli Tepe monumental architecture wrong; (2) maybe we're wrong about when agriculture began in that area; (3) the architecture truly predates agriculture

1615 upvotes • spikebrennan

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A commonly reposted internet claim is that during Prohibition, dissolvable bricks of grape juice came with a warning "Do not store in darkness for 20 days, because then it would turn into wine". Is this accurate? I can't find a simple photo of one.

1615 upvotes • WaitForItTheMongols

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Did there used to be a bunch of kids named Neptune and Baal and Set, like there are Jesuses and Mohameds now?

1614 upvotes • nonprophet2012

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Title	Upvotes	Author	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
What were periods like for medieval women?	1619	because_lions
Wikipedia has the Praetorian Guard on it's list of secret police forces. Do you think it's appropriate to call them that?	1618	grapp
How did Spanish and Portuguese become so different despite being based off of the same language and having no major geographic barriers separating them?	1618	CaprioPeter
Was it common for both duelists to die in sword duels?	1618	dutch_penguin
Ancient Babylon: Did they really practice public deflowering of virgins via ritualized sex in the name of some goddess?	1617	serendipity12x
Were the battlefields of the First World War considered an “obstacle” during the second?	1617	RealHunterB
Why didn't the United States take more Mexican land than they did after the Mexican-American war?	1616	NormanQuacks345
Gobekli Tepe: Is there scholarly consensus about which possibilities remain on the table: (1) maybe we have the age of the Gobekli Tepe monumental architecture wrong; (2) maybe we're wrong about when agriculture began in that area; (3) the architecture truly predates agriculture	1615	spikebrennan
A commonly reposted internet claim is that during Prohibition, dissolvable bricks of grape juice came with a warning "Do not store in darkness for 20 days, because then it would turn into wine". Is this accurate? I can't find a simple photo of one.	1615	WaitForItTheMongols
Did there used to be a bunch of kids named Neptune and Baal and Set, like there are Jesuses and Mohameds now?	1614	nonprophet2012