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Why Lithuania once so big is such a small country?

548 upvotes • bububoom

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How should we be teaching history in order to foster a healthy lifelong interest in the subject, avoid bad caricatures of historical events, foster level headed discussions and skepticism towards sketchy interpretations of the facts?

548 upvotes • InterestedInTheBible

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People who lived through the 1940s are now 80+ years old. What oral history should we be trying to collect from them?

548 upvotes • 82364

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In the Hornblower series, Royal Navy series don't fish for provision. Is this an accurate depiction, and if so, why didn't the Navy fish for their food more often?

548 upvotes • TreebeardButIntoBDSM

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The stereotype of a 19th century gold prospector is oddly specific: an eccentric, hunchbacked old man with a long beard, a tattered hat, and missing teeth. Does this image come from one particular person or fictional character, was it a stereotype of a real phenomenon?

548 upvotes • allfangs

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I'm in France in 800AD and I walk from one town to the next. How many people do I encounter?

548 upvotes • cptn_carrot

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Why/how did North Americans stop eating lamb in favour of other meats?

547 upvotes • _Search_

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How were albino slaves treated in the American South?

547 upvotes • Ohhsweetconcord

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I read online that King Henry VII's armor was so well-made that NASA studied it while they were designing the space suits for the moon landing. Are there any other suits of mideval armor that inspired modern technology?

547 upvotes • yuloforce

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What, exactly, did it mean for a planet to be called "Jupiter" in Roman times?

547 upvotes • pug-beautiful

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Title	Upvotes	Author	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
Why Lithuania once so big is such a small country?	548	bububoom
How should we be teaching history in order to foster a healthy lifelong interest in the subject, avoid bad caricatures of historical events, foster level headed discussions and skepticism towards sketchy interpretations of the facts?	548	InterestedInTheBible
People who lived through the 1940s are now 80+ years old. What oral history should we be trying to collect from them?	548	82364
In the Hornblower series, Royal Navy series don't fish for provision. Is this an accurate depiction, and if so, why didn't the Navy fish for their food more often?	548	TreebeardButIntoBDSM
The stereotype of a 19th century gold prospector is oddly specific: an eccentric, hunchbacked old man with a long beard, a tattered hat, and missing teeth. Does this image come from one particular person or fictional character, was it a stereotype of a real phenomenon?	548	allfangs
I'm in France in 800AD and I walk from one town to the next. How many people do I encounter?	548	cptn_carrot
Why/how did North Americans stop eating lamb in favour of other meats?	547	_Search_
How were albino slaves treated in the American South?	547	Ohhsweetconcord
I read online that King Henry VII's armor was so well-made that NASA studied it while they were designing the space suits for the moon landing. Are there any other suits of mideval armor that inspired modern technology?	547	yuloforce
What, exactly, did it mean for a planet to be called "Jupiter" in Roman times?	547	pug-beautiful