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How did ketchup and mustard become the defacto restaurant condiments in the U.S.?

741 upvotes • City_of_Orphalese

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I have heard that Roman statues were originally brightly-painted and lost their pigment with time. But when exactly did that happen? Would a visitor to Rome in, say, 1200 have seen colorful statues or white ones?

741 upvotes • TotallyNotMoishe

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How quickly did news of the European landings spread across the Americas?

740 upvotes • NotARandomNumber

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Have brainwashed sleeper agents (people who are a spy without knowing it until activated) ever existed in any kind of fashion?

740 upvotes • InsideFourWalls

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How do fascist movements die?

740 upvotes • cohonka

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How great of a blow to historians is the migration of letters and journals to the digital realm, where most of them are inaccessible to historians (locked email accounts, hard drives, etc)?

740 upvotes • RusticBohemian

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In Neil Gaiman's "American Gods" there is a passage where he describes celtic or saxon people worshiping a kid like a God, sacrificing him, and then parading his corpse as a sacred relic. Is this based on any historical practice?

740 upvotes • Frigorifico

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What fictional work has done the most damage to your field in terms of misrepresenting the period?

740 upvotes • [deleted]

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Did Ghandi and MLK and other peaceful "revolutionaries" rely on their contemporary violent counterparts for success?

739 upvotes • CoolGuy54

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Why did Khrushchev give Crimea to Ukraine in 1954?

739 upvotes • voltaicbasho

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Title	Upvotes	Author	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
How did ketchup and mustard become the defacto restaurant condiments in the U.S.?	741	City_of_Orphalese
I have heard that Roman statues were originally brightly-painted and lost their pigment with time. But when exactly did that happen? Would a visitor to Rome in, say, 1200 have seen colorful statues or white ones?	741	TotallyNotMoishe
How quickly did news of the European landings spread across the Americas?	740	NotARandomNumber
Have brainwashed sleeper agents (people who are a spy without knowing it until activated) ever existed in any kind of fashion?	740	InsideFourWalls
How do fascist movements die?	740	cohonka
How great of a blow to historians is the migration of letters and journals to the digital realm, where most of them are inaccessible to historians (locked email accounts, hard drives, etc)?	740	RusticBohemian
In Neil Gaiman's "American Gods" there is a passage where he describes celtic or saxon people worshiping a kid like a God, sacrificing him, and then parading his corpse as a sacred relic. Is this based on any historical practice?	740	Frigorifico
What fictional work has done the most damage to your field in terms of misrepresenting the period?	740	[deleted]
Did Ghandi and MLK and other peaceful "revolutionaries" rely on their contemporary violent counterparts for success?	739	CoolGuy54
Why did Khrushchev give Crimea to Ukraine in 1954?	739	voltaicbasho