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Why is the Mona Lisa so famous?

723 upvotes • GoodThingsWillHappen

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Do the descendants of the major Japanese clans (Tokugawa, Oda, etc) still have influence or command respect? Are their any clans that still 'exist', so to speak?

722 upvotes • [deleted]

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I am Soviet party elite in the 1980s with first access to any domestic food products, what exactly am I eating that the general public is not?

722 upvotes • RumIsTheMindKiller

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How did Ethiopia, a powerful, Christian nation that had long kept ties to the west on relatively equal footing, become "fair game" for Italian colonization?

722 upvotes • Xxxn00bpwnR69xxX

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I know that the Korean spoken in north and south Korea have deviated a bit from each other in the 70 years that the nation has been divided. Did anything similar happen in the 40 years Germany was divided into east and west?

722 upvotes • icelandicvader

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A common view of the Napoleonic Wars can be summarized as Napoleon beating the pants off Europe for years until the British swoop in and save the day with a smaller, better army. How true is this and how much may be unintentional bias due to British sources being more accessible to English speakers?

721 upvotes • MolotovCollective

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Did Islamic countries have problems with mass witch paranoia like in Christian countries?

720 upvotes • rsashe1980

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Why was the Italian army so ineffective during WWII?

720 upvotes • Skantrax

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What was hygene really like in Europe between, say, the End of the Roman Empire in 500 A.D and 1850 A.D? Most interested in 1000 A.D and 1600 A.D

720 upvotes • MordorsFinest

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There must have been anti-semitic soldiers who participated in liberating the concentration camps at the end of World War II. Did any of them write about their feelings toward Jews changing as a result of this experience?

720 upvotes • eleventeenth_beatle

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Title	Upvotes	Author	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
Why is the Mona Lisa so famous?	723	GoodThingsWillHappen
Do the descendants of the major Japanese clans (Tokugawa, Oda, etc) still have influence or command respect? Are their any clans that still 'exist', so to speak?	722	[deleted]
I am Soviet party elite in the 1980s with first access to any domestic food products, what exactly am I eating that the general public is not?	722	RumIsTheMindKiller
How did Ethiopia, a powerful, Christian nation that had long kept ties to the west on relatively equal footing, become "fair game" for Italian colonization?	722	Xxxn00bpwnR69xxX
I know that the Korean spoken in north and south Korea have deviated a bit from each other in the 70 years that the nation has been divided. Did anything similar happen in the 40 years Germany was divided into east and west?	722	icelandicvader
A common view of the Napoleonic Wars can be summarized as Napoleon beating the pants off Europe for years until the British swoop in and save the day with a smaller, better army. How true is this and how much may be unintentional bias due to British sources being more accessible to English speakers?	721	MolotovCollective
Did Islamic countries have problems with mass witch paranoia like in Christian countries?	720	rsashe1980
Why was the Italian army so ineffective during WWII?	720	Skantrax
What was hygene really like in Europe between, say, the End of the Roman Empire in 500 A.D and 1850 A.D? Most interested in 1000 A.D and 1600 A.D	720	MordorsFinest
There must have been anti-semitic soldiers who participated in liberating the concentration camps at the end of World War II. Did any of them write about their feelings toward Jews changing as a result of this experience?	720	eleventeenth_beatle