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Why is Erwin Rommel so revered as a military leader?

1419 upvotes • Deladi0

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Why did Stalin forbid the French Communist Party from launching a revolution as the Germans withdrew from occupied France in 1944?

1418 upvotes • GosephJoebbels

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Dan Carlin argues that the German army in the first world war was superior to that in the second, because they weren't hamstrung by having crazy people (ideological Nazis) in crucial positions who'd been appointed for political reasons. Did this have a major impact? Was it decisive?

1418 upvotes • td4999

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How come Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights wasn't seen as sacreligious? I mean, it's full of weird imagery that isn't in the bible. He's almost retconning Genesis. Was that okay at the time?

1418 upvotes • GSV_No_Fixed_Abode

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Why do countries in Latin America only speak Spanish and not Catalan, Basque, or any of Spain’s other languages?

1418 upvotes • 1994bmw850csi

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Why did 1970s New York look like a war zone?

1417 upvotes • BobTheSCV

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Africa is famously known for having many borders being Europeans just drawing lines to benefit themselves. Why didn’t African nations try to change the borders after independence? Why even stuck in these arbitrary colonial forms?

1417 upvotes • Divorcefrenchodad

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Not sure if this is the right place but, why is/ was pre-clovis culture so controversial?

1417 upvotes • JitterySuperCoffee

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I don't know how to phrase this, but: How and why did we choose 100 as the maximum percentage of something? Why not 1000? Or 200? Also, are there examples of alternate maximums?

1417 upvotes • Jamollo123

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Would King Arthur and his knights really have had access to enough coconuts in c.932AD England to outfit the whole Grail expedition?

1416 upvotes • NMW

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Title	Upvotes	Author	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
Why is Erwin Rommel so revered as a military leader?	1419	Deladi0
Why did Stalin forbid the French Communist Party from launching a revolution as the Germans withdrew from occupied France in 1944?	1418	GosephJoebbels
Dan Carlin argues that the German army in the first world war was superior to that in the second, because they weren't hamstrung by having crazy people (ideological Nazis) in crucial positions who'd been appointed for political reasons. Did this have a major impact? Was it decisive?	1418	td4999
How come Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights wasn't seen as sacreligious? I mean, it's full of weird imagery that isn't in the bible. He's almost retconning Genesis. Was that okay at the time?	1418	GSV_No_Fixed_Abode
Why do countries in Latin America only speak Spanish and not Catalan, Basque, or any of Spain’s other languages?	1418	1994bmw850csi
Why did 1970s New York look like a war zone?	1417	BobTheSCV
Africa is famously known for having many borders being Europeans just drawing lines to benefit themselves. Why didn’t African nations try to change the borders after independence? Why even stuck in these arbitrary colonial forms?	1417	Divorcefrenchodad
Not sure if this is the right place but, why is/ was pre-clovis culture so controversial?	1417	JitterySuperCoffee
I don't know how to phrase this, but: How and why did we choose 100 as the maximum percentage of something? Why not 1000? Or 200? Also, are there examples of alternate maximums?	1417	Jamollo123
Would King Arthur and his knights really have had access to enough coconuts in c.932AD England to outfit the whole Grail expedition?	1416	NMW