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I love this picture of Margaret Hamilton standing next to the navigation code responsible for NASA's Apollo mission, but I'd like more context. What language was it written in? What did it "do?" How was Hamilton's contribution viewed at the time?

712 upvotes • mowshowitz

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During the Black Plague, was there ever a resurgence of pagan beliefs in the face of church impotence?

712 upvotes • currentmadman

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Are the Kurds in Syria the same Kurds who fought Xenephon and the Greeks in the March of the 10,000?

712 upvotes • nobodysbish

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Has a poor translation ever caused a war or other serious crisis?

711 upvotes • ijflwe42

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If Afganistan is "The Graveyard of Empires", How did ancient empires like the Mughals actually maintain control over Afganistan?

711 upvotes • [deleted]

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What was the doctrine for flamethrower usage in the world wars?

711 upvotes • HUD_Christian

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I Was watching an old movie that portrayed Chinese rebels communicating by telegraph and it got me wondering, how could people using logoraphic writing use telegraph? Morse code would not work obviously.

711 upvotes • Leontiev

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The 1812 Battle of Borodino has been described as "a fully-loaded 747 crashing, with no survivors, every 5 minutes for eight hours". How were the weapons and tactics of 1812 able to produce such carnage, killing 71 generals and more soldiers than Waterloo in one day? Why was it so unusually bloody?

711 upvotes • fan_of_the_pikachu

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We are AskHistorians flairs of the Viking Age! Ask us anything about Assassin's Creed: Valhalla!

711 upvotes • Steelcan909

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How did white Southerners in the US view sexual violence against slaves? How well known was this practice to non-slaveholders? NSFW

711 upvotes • thepineapplemen

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I love this picture of Margaret Hamilton standing next to the navigation code responsible for NASA's Apollo mission, but I'd like more context. What language was it written in? What did it "do?" How was Hamilton's contribution viewed at the time?	712	mowshowitz
During the Black Plague, was there ever a resurgence of pagan beliefs in the face of church impotence?	712	currentmadman
Are the Kurds in Syria the same Kurds who fought Xenephon and the Greeks in the March of the 10,000?	712	nobodysbish
Has a poor translation ever caused a war or other serious crisis?	711	ijflwe42
If Afganistan is "The Graveyard of Empires", How did ancient empires like the Mughals actually maintain control over Afganistan?	711	[deleted]
What was the doctrine for flamethrower usage in the world wars?	711	HUD_Christian
I Was watching an old movie that portrayed Chinese rebels communicating by telegraph and it got me wondering, how could people using logoraphic writing use telegraph? Morse code would not work obviously.	711	Leontiev
The 1812 Battle of Borodino has been described as "a fully-loaded 747 crashing, with no survivors, every 5 minutes for eight hours". How were the weapons and tactics of 1812 able to produce such carnage, killing 71 generals and more soldiers than Waterloo in one day? Why was it so unusually bloody?	711	fan_of_the_pikachu
We are AskHistorians flairs of the Viking Age! Ask us anything about Assassin's Creed: Valhalla!	711	Steelcan909
How did white Southerners in the US view sexual violence against slaves? How well known was this practice to non-slaveholders? NSFW	711	thepineapplemen