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After the colonisation, a lot of previously colonized countries got their independence after asking (more or less violently) for it. But did it ever happened that a country "abandoned" one of its colonies / forced one to become independent ?

1366 upvotes • chocopouet

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[META] A welcome to new readers and a reminder about the rules

1365 upvotes • NMW

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Was there a reason American adults stopped dressing so formally in public?

1365 upvotes • richb83

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What did the Japanese (before contact with europeans) believe was further east?

1365 upvotes • [deleted]

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In those American states that did not join the Confederacy but still had legal slavery such as Maryland, Delaware and Missouri, what was the practice of slavery like during the war?

1365 upvotes • Martin_Buber

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The jacobin, an American leftist newspaper, recently released an article critiquing Timothy Synder's Bloodlands and the comparison between Nazi and Soviet crimes. How strong are these critiques, and more broadly how is Synder's work seen in the academic community?

1365 upvotes • HealthMotor8651

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How did Muslims initially react to photography given the widespread taboos against depicting people and animals in Islamic art?

1364 upvotes • BatCountryTourist

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Did South American economies benefit from being left unscathed during WW2?

1364 upvotes • 585AM

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31 years ago today 14 women were killed at l'École Polytechnique in Montreal. Now the massacre is widely accepted as an anti-feminist attack; what were anti-feminist movements like at the time? What role did they play in the massacre?

1364 upvotes • SarahAGilbert

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How is it that so many prominent Mexican drug traffickers got their start in Sinaloa, a state with no land border with the USA, and what looks like a circuitous sea route?

1364 upvotes • Yeangster

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After the colonisation, a lot of previously colonized countries got their independence after asking (more or less violently) for it. But did it ever happened that a country "abandoned" one of its colonies / forced one to become independent ?	1366	chocopouet
[META] A welcome to new readers and a reminder about the rules	1365	NMW
Was there a reason American adults stopped dressing so formally in public?	1365	richb83
What did the Japanese (before contact with europeans) believe was further east?	1365	[deleted]
In those American states that did not join the Confederacy but still had legal slavery such as Maryland, Delaware and Missouri, what was the practice of slavery like during the war?	1365	Martin_Buber
The jacobin, an American leftist newspaper, recently released an article critiquing Timothy Synder's Bloodlands and the comparison between Nazi and Soviet crimes. How strong are these critiques, and more broadly how is Synder's work seen in the academic community?	1365	HealthMotor8651
How did Muslims initially react to photography given the widespread taboos against depicting people and animals in Islamic art?	1364	BatCountryTourist
Did South American economies benefit from being left unscathed during WW2?	1364	585AM
31 years ago today 14 women were killed at l'École Polytechnique in Montreal. Now the massacre is widely accepted as an anti-feminist attack; what were anti-feminist movements like at the time? What role did they play in the massacre?	1364	SarahAGilbert
How is it that so many prominent Mexican drug traffickers got their start in Sinaloa, a state with no land border with the USA, and what looks like a circuitous sea route?	1364	Yeangster