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It's 1534 and I'm a commoner in rural England. King Henry just split with the catholic church. How does this change things in my local parish? Do we all just go along with the pope no longer being the head of the church?

761 upvotes • DeliriousSatyr

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How did Romans do math without a decimal based number system? Resubmitted because There were no answers the first time.

761 upvotes • Obeeeee

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Why was India the "Jewel in the Crown" of the British Empire?

761 upvotes • stmorgante

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With sports segregation still going strong in the 1930's, how did the US Olympic team end up being unsegregated and how did white Americans respond to being represented by black athletes.

761 upvotes • mystical-me

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Did Knights avoid other equally equipped and equally armored enemy Knights?

761 upvotes • [deleted]

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With the vastness of the Roman Empire at its peak, it encompassed many different climates, topographies, and cultures. Were there citizens who traveled to these different places for fun?

760 upvotes • eaglesfanone

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Lee Harvey Oswald applied to work at the Texas School Book Depository over 2 months before Kennedy's assassination. How did he know to do this? Was JFK's motorcade route announced several months in advance?

760 upvotes • Xi_Pimping

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It was a common trope in older cartoons like Dudley Doright that the villain would tie the damsel in distress to the train tracks. Have there ever been any reports of that actually happening in North America?

760 upvotes • IMadeThisForFood

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What was it like for the very last soldiers on Hadrian’s Wall before abandonment?

760 upvotes • [deleted]

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Did the Greeks really believe in their gods?

759 upvotes • icansitstill

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It's 1534 and I'm a commoner in rural England. King Henry just split with the catholic church. How does this change things in my local parish? Do we all just go along with the pope no longer being the head of the church?	761	DeliriousSatyr
How did Romans do math without a decimal based number system? Resubmitted because There were no answers the first time.	761	Obeeeee
Why was India the "Jewel in the Crown" of the British Empire?	761	stmorgante
With sports segregation still going strong in the 1930's, how did the US Olympic team end up being unsegregated and how did white Americans respond to being represented by black athletes.	761	mystical-me
Did Knights avoid other equally equipped and equally armored enemy Knights?	761	[deleted]
With the vastness of the Roman Empire at its peak, it encompassed many different climates, topographies, and cultures. Were there citizens who traveled to these different places for fun?	760	eaglesfanone
Lee Harvey Oswald applied to work at the Texas School Book Depository over 2 months before Kennedy's assassination. How did he know to do this? Was JFK's motorcade route announced several months in advance?	760	Xi_Pimping
It was a common trope in older cartoons like Dudley Doright that the villain would tie the damsel in distress to the train tracks. Have there ever been any reports of that actually happening in North America?	760	IMadeThisForFood
What was it like for the very last soldiers on Hadrian’s Wall before abandonment?	760	[deleted]
Did the Greeks really believe in their gods?	759	icansitstill