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Did the Ancient Romans have their own version of a "cup of coffee"? by which I mean a mild stimulant they would have used on a daily basis

1059 upvotes • WobeyTide

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Let's say I'm an upper class woman in high middle ages Europe who has just become pregnant for the first time. How would my life change over the next several months?

1059 upvotes • Doe22

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Do we have records of harem life from members of the Imperial Ottoman harem, and what do they tell us about interpersonal relationships between the women?

1059 upvotes • chocolatepot

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In the Quran it is clearly stated that when two muslims fight, both the victor and the defeated have earned damnation. How did medieveal muslim states convince their soldiers to keep fighting other muslims ?

1059 upvotes • egyp_tian

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The Qing dynasty forced all men to wear their hair in a strange style called a queue. This style was hated by the Han people, however, many Chinese immigrants to the US still wore it. Why did these people keep the queue hairstyle in the US when they no longer had to?

1059 upvotes • IAmNotRyan

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How did the dominant sports in the USA come to be so different from the rest of the world?

1058 upvotes • banal_penetration

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The Mt. Vernon website lists at least one transaction of George Washington "purchasing" teeth from enslaved people on his estate. Was this practice common between slave-owners and their slaves and was it done as "voluntarily" as the website would lead one to believe?

1058 upvotes • ExiledToTerminus

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Why did North America split into 3 countries and South America split into 15 though they were colonized similarly?

1057 upvotes • theodore_boozevelt

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There are stories about KGB sleeper agents in the US during the Cold War. Were there any western sleepers in the Soviet Union / communist states ?

1057 upvotes • bgdn99

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Did the Ancient Romans have their own version of a "cup of coffee"? by which I mean a mild stimulant they would have used on a daily basis	1059	WobeyTide
Let's say I'm an upper class woman in high middle ages Europe who has just become pregnant for the first time. How would my life change over the next several months?	1059	Doe22
Do we have records of harem life from members of the Imperial Ottoman harem, and what do they tell us about interpersonal relationships between the women?	1059	chocolatepot
In the Quran it is clearly stated that when two muslims fight, both the victor and the defeated have earned damnation. How did medieveal muslim states convince their soldiers to keep fighting other muslims ?	1059	egyp_tian
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The Qing dynasty forced all men to wear their hair in a strange style called a queue. This style was hated by the Han people, however, many Chinese immigrants to the US still wore it. Why did these people keep the queue hairstyle in the US when they no longer had to?	1059	IAmNotRyan
How did the dominant sports in the USA come to be so different from the rest of the world?	1058	banal_penetration
The Mt. Vernon website lists at least one transaction of George Washington "purchasing" teeth from enslaved people on his estate. Was this practice common between slave-owners and their slaves and was it done as "voluntarily" as the website would lead one to believe?	1058	ExiledToTerminus
Why did North America split into 3 countries and South America split into 15 though they were colonized similarly?	1057	theodore_boozevelt
There are stories about KGB sleeper agents in the US during the Cold War. Were there any western sleepers in the Soviet Union / communist states ?	1057	bgdn99