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How did crime rates of countries get effected during large scale wars like the World Wars?

1363 upvotes • PressBForBombs

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I'm a 14th century bohemian peasant. While working my farm I see a knight with a flag I don't recognise. Should I assume he's an enemy? Did peasant's know what to look out for should someone attack?

1363 upvotes • RewriteCinema

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Alexander the Great marched all the way to India. How did he supply his army?

1362 upvotes • BadJokeHD

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If ancient humans migrated into the Americas via a land bring across the Bering Sea then spread from north to south, why are the oldest settlements in the Americas located in Central America and South America, with relatively younger and less evidence of ancient peoples in North America?

1362 upvotes • UPPERCASE_THOUGHTS

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There's a passage in Christian scripture typically translated into English as a directive to "visit" someone while in prison. But what would that have entailed in the time period when the passage was written? What would it have been like to "visit" a person in prison in that era?

1362 upvotes • cuthman99

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Why did the Nazis use the hindu swastika as their logo?

1361 upvotes • [deleted]

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The Europeans drank ale/wine and the Chinese had tea, but what did other regions do to avoid drinking contaminated water?

1361 upvotes • mtcycanic

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Are there any "dead" sports? Sports that were huge at one time but then stopped being played?

1360 upvotes • [deleted]

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Napoleon. He gets exiled to Elba. Then he escapes, and BOOM! He's suddenly got an army! Where'd it come from?

1360 upvotes • ChuckNorrisAteMySock

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When I think of Roman liquid storage, I think of pottery made of clay, but when I think of medieval liquid storage, I think of wooden barrels. When did this switch occur?

1358 upvotes • PurpleKnytt

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Title	Upvotes	Author	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
How did crime rates of countries get effected during large scale wars like the World Wars?	1363	PressBForBombs
I'm a 14th century bohemian peasant. While working my farm I see a knight with a flag I don't recognise. Should I assume he's an enemy? Did peasant's know what to look out for should someone attack?	1363	RewriteCinema
Alexander the Great marched all the way to India. How did he supply his army?	1362	BadJokeHD
If ancient humans migrated into the Americas via a land bring across the Bering Sea then spread from north to south, why are the oldest settlements in the Americas located in Central America and South America, with relatively younger and less evidence of ancient peoples in North America?	1362	UPPERCASE_THOUGHTS
There's a passage in Christian scripture typically translated into English as a directive to "visit" someone while in prison. But what would that have entailed in the time period when the passage was written? What would it have been like to "visit" a person in prison in that era?	1362	cuthman99
Why did the Nazis use the hindu swastika as their logo?	1361	[deleted]
The Europeans drank ale/wine and the Chinese had tea, but what did other regions do to avoid drinking contaminated water?	1361	mtcycanic
Are there any "dead" sports? Sports that were huge at one time but then stopped being played?	1360	[deleted]
Napoleon. He gets exiled to Elba. Then he escapes, and BOOM! He's suddenly got an army! Where'd it come from?	1360	ChuckNorrisAteMySock
When I think of Roman liquid storage, I think of pottery made of clay, but when I think of medieval liquid storage, I think of wooden barrels. When did this switch occur?	1358	PurpleKnytt