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Did Native Americans make roads?

886 upvotes • DoctorDanDrangus

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Pretty much every photo of a meeting between the Big Three (Stalin, FDR/Truman, & Churchill/Attlee) has the U.S. President in the center. Was this a conscious decision? Were there negotiations behind who would sit where?

886 upvotes • nyshtick

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In A Land Before Time, dinosaurs are depicted as existing in highly mixed cohesive interspecies communities. Was there really this much tolerance and multispecism among dinosaurs of that period?

886 upvotes • respect_cat

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Why did the Portuguese colonies in South America evolve into a single country (Brazil) where as the continent's Spanish colonies broke off into nearly a dozen countries?

886 upvotes • alex-1223

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I'm a rich 4th century Roman and I've decided to convert to the cool new religion of Christianity, just like the Emperor. Outside of actual religious ceremonies, what changes am I likely to make to my behaviour?

886 upvotes • The_Manchurian

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Saudi Arabia only abolished slavery in 1962. Was the fact that slavery still existed there a common political discussion point in the West during the 1950s, like Apartheid in the 1980s?

886 upvotes • iwanttobepart

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Has Hitler been viewed as the definitive example of a monster/evil in Asian or sub-Sahara African countries?

886 upvotes • counterpointguy

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When Standard Oil was broken up into 34 separate entities, how was ownership distributed?

885 upvotes • shakyugan

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Do we have any accounts from women or children on what it was like when a besieged city fell and how it affected their lives?

885 upvotes • AnnalsPornographie

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In Medieval Europe there existed a superstition that fairies would sometimes kidnap people, usually babies, and leave changelings in their place. What would happen if a person really thought their baby was a changeling?

885 upvotes • Frigorifico

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Title	Upvotes	Author	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
Did Native Americans make roads?	886	DoctorDanDrangus
Pretty much every photo of a meeting between the Big Three (Stalin, FDR/Truman, & Churchill/Attlee) has the U.S. President in the center. Was this a conscious decision? Were there negotiations behind who would sit where?	886	nyshtick
In A Land Before Time, dinosaurs are depicted as existing in highly mixed cohesive interspecies communities. Was there really this much tolerance and multispecism among dinosaurs of that period?	886	respect_cat
Why did the Portuguese colonies in South America evolve into a single country (Brazil) where as the continent's Spanish colonies broke off into nearly a dozen countries?	886	alex-1223
I'm a rich 4th century Roman and I've decided to convert to the cool new religion of Christianity, just like the Emperor. Outside of actual religious ceremonies, what changes am I likely to make to my behaviour?	886	The_Manchurian
Saudi Arabia only abolished slavery in 1962. Was the fact that slavery still existed there a common political discussion point in the West during the 1950s, like Apartheid in the 1980s?	886	iwanttobepart
Has Hitler been viewed as the definitive example of a monster/evil in Asian or sub-Sahara African countries?	886	counterpointguy
When Standard Oil was broken up into 34 separate entities, how was ownership distributed?	885	shakyugan
Do we have any accounts from women or children on what it was like when a besieged city fell and how it affected their lives?	885	AnnalsPornographie
In Medieval Europe there existed a superstition that fairies would sometimes kidnap people, usually babies, and leave changelings in their place. What would happen if a person really thought their baby was a changeling?	885	Frigorifico