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Who is the earliest person for whom we have a reasonably accurate visual depiction?

578 upvotes • daddyschulez

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Why did so many old money American families fade into obscurity over the course of the 20th century?

578 upvotes • ColCrockett

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What language did the multinational Caribbean buccaneer crews tend to operate in?

577 upvotes • BandarSeriBegawan

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How much of a surprise was it to contemporary people that the great auk went extinct ca. 1850? Was it even conceivable back in the late 1700s that a species could be hunted down to extinction?

577 upvotes • tlumacz

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Found a photo of the center of Stalingrad after liberation. Soviet solder's were carrying what appears to be long spears. Was there a significance to this item? Were they finishing off German soldiers that were dying? Link to the photo in the text.

577 upvotes • mulletpullet

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When Napoleon was considering building the Suez canal his surveyors repeatedly measured the Red Sea being 9 meters higher than the Mediterranean. Considering this was more than a century after Newton why was it not clear to them that such variations in sea level are not possible?

577 upvotes • IWantYouHard

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What is an example of a heartwarming tale from your researched point of history?

576 upvotes • [deleted]

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How likely is it that Jesus was familiar with Plato?

576 upvotes • inoffensive1

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How filthy was Versailles? Why was it allowed to be so?

576 upvotes • BreaksFull

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By Jove! How did English-speaking Christians come to invoke a pagan roman god?

576 upvotes • Zethniti

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Title	Upvotes	Author	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
Who is the earliest person for whom we have a reasonably accurate visual depiction?	578	daddyschulez
Why did so many old money American families fade into obscurity over the course of the 20th century?	578	ColCrockett
What language did the multinational Caribbean buccaneer crews tend to operate in?	577	BandarSeriBegawan
How much of a surprise was it to contemporary people that the great auk went extinct ca. 1850? Was it even conceivable back in the late 1700s that a species could be hunted down to extinction?	577	tlumacz
Found a photo of the center of Stalingrad after liberation. Soviet solder's were carrying what appears to be long spears. Was there a significance to this item? Were they finishing off German soldiers that were dying? Link to the photo in the text.	577	mulletpullet
When Napoleon was considering building the Suez canal his surveyors repeatedly measured the Red Sea being 9 meters higher than the Mediterranean. Considering this was more than a century after Newton why was it not clear to them that such variations in sea level are not possible?	577	IWantYouHard
What is an example of a heartwarming tale from your researched point of history?	576	[deleted]
How likely is it that Jesus was familiar with Plato?	576	inoffensive1
How filthy was Versailles? Why was it allowed to be so?	576	BreaksFull
By Jove! How did English-speaking Christians come to invoke a pagan roman god?	576	Zethniti