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I'm a merchant in ancient Rome, and a thief just ran off with some of my goods. Is the legal system good enough to get me justice? Is it worth my while, as a plebian merchant, to report the crime to a magistrate?

484 upvotes • RusticBohemian

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What made 1848 such a big year? Did something specifically happen that caused like half of Europe to make new constitutions that year? Is it the biggest year in the 19th century?

484 upvotes • RussianActiveMeasurs

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How did the 'Gothic' go from referring to an ethnicity to a description of overtly nihilist teenagers?

483 upvotes • King0fKrunk

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Is this quote really attributable to Napoleon? “Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded his empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for him.”

483 upvotes • dplhollands

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I’m a wealthy woman somewhere in late-Medieval Europe and I’ve just given birth to my first child (a boy, let’s say). Assuming I don’t die and the child doesn’t die, what will my life as a brand new mother be like, how will I care for the baby and what duties might I delegate to the household staff?

483 upvotes • tlumacz

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15 of Shakespeare's 37 plays feature suicide as a significant theme, how common was suicide in everyday life during the Elizabethan Era?

483 upvotes • Schmoofz

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Given the chaos of the February Revolution in France, who would have had the authority (and hopefully reason) to order a French corvette to embark on an almost 2-year mission around the Pacific to find and transfer the son of a minor French noble from one whaling ship to another?

483 upvotes • takoko

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Why were the Freemasons so controversial in the early 1800s? An entire party was formed to oppose them, but today they're nothing more than an obscure social club

483 upvotes • DuceGiharm

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In US history, were slaves ever bought for the explicit purpose of prostitution? NSFW

483 upvotes • [deleted]

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Where in the world did all the Spanish New World silver go?

483 upvotes • interact212

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Title	Upvotes	Author	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
I'm a merchant in ancient Rome, and a thief just ran off with some of my goods. Is the legal system good enough to get me justice? Is it worth my while, as a plebian merchant, to report the crime to a magistrate?	484	RusticBohemian
What made 1848 such a big year? Did something specifically happen that caused like half of Europe to make new constitutions that year? Is it the biggest year in the 19th century?	484	RussianActiveMeasurs
How did the 'Gothic' go from referring to an ethnicity to a description of overtly nihilist teenagers?	483	King0fKrunk
Is this quote really attributable to Napoleon? “Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded his empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for him.”	483	dplhollands
I’m a wealthy woman somewhere in late-Medieval Europe and I’ve just given birth to my first child (a boy, let’s say). Assuming I don’t die and the child doesn’t die, what will my life as a brand new mother be like, how will I care for the baby and what duties might I delegate to the household staff?	483	tlumacz
15 of Shakespeare's 37 plays feature suicide as a significant theme, how common was suicide in everyday life during the Elizabethan Era?	483	Schmoofz
Given the chaos of the February Revolution in France, who would have had the authority (and hopefully reason) to order a French corvette to embark on an almost 2-year mission around the Pacific to find and transfer the son of a minor French noble from one whaling ship to another?	483	takoko
Why were the Freemasons so controversial in the early 1800s? An entire party was formed to oppose them, but today they're nothing more than an obscure social club	483	DuceGiharm
In US history, were slaves ever bought for the explicit purpose of prostitution? NSFW	483	[deleted]
Where in the world did all the Spanish New World silver go?	483	interact212