/r/askhistorians

Title	Upvotes	Author
Eric Hobsbawm wrote in one of his books, "In 1789 50% of the French people did not speak [French] at all, and only 12 to 13% spoke it 'fairly'". What languages did these people speak, and was the same true in other European nation-states (e.g, Sweden, England, Spain, etc?)	508	mstrgrieves
Why do modern day Protestants continue to give value to ancient Phoenician deities?	508	AugustusClaximus
Why did countries like France and Russia become unified countries quite early on, but Italy and Germany only unified late in the 19th Century?	507	kdiuro13
Is Band Of Brothers portrayal of the finding/liberation of Concentration Camps accurate (ep9)? Did the infantry have such little knowledge of the camps that the discovery was a genuine shock?	507	Cogito96
In 175 Marcus Aurelius defeated the Sarmatians. As part of the peace deal, the Sarmatians provided 8000 cavalry for the Roman legions. Of these, 5500 were sent to Bremetennacum in Britain. Is there any further info about these displaced warriors? What happened after their time in the legion?	507	Zepherith
Do we have any idea how many changes of clothes would an English peasant have in the High Middle Ages? How big of a deal was it when your clothes suddenly got severely damaged?	507	LukeInTheSkyWith
Did American soldiers who saw the racist atrocities of the Holocaust realize the horrors of prejudice and have a moral awakening or did they go back to nonchalantly eating at whites only diners? If the 2nd, why? (I doubt every American soldier was watching blackface shows but you get what I mean)	507	MemerInAMemeLand
Virtually all household lamb consumption in the United States happens in immigrant communities - how did Lamb, a cheap and versatile meat common in other cultures - become effectively absent from American diet?	507	Basilikon
There seems to be some controversy about the possibility that Albert Einstein’s first wife, Mileva Marić, who was also a physicist/mathematician, contributed or even co-wrote the work Albert is famous for. What is genuinely known, or deducible, about Mileva’s contribution?	507	RegulatoryCapturedMe
Why did Star Wars become such a cultural phenomenon in 1977?	506	optiplex9000

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