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Was there any negative reaction to those returning from the Fourth Crusade?

461 upvotes • DuckFacedMonkey

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Why did Ireland remain largely Catholic? Specifically, why did continental Protestantism (i.e. Calvinism and Lutheranism, not Anglicanism) not gain traction in Ireland?

461 upvotes • GusWiyams

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Is Sexual Prudeishness really a Judeo-Christian invention?

461 upvotes • noctheist

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The battles of Verdun and the Somme resulted in about 2 million casualties on both sides with apparently little to show for it. Were there any voices raised to stop the carnage on either side of the trenches? If so, whose voices and what happened with them?

461 upvotes • maxitobonito

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Did Emperor Norton I, first emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico, ever state his opinion on the Civil War?

461 upvotes • Chacochilla

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Ezra Pound argued Thomas Jefferson "governed for 24 yrs, and you might say for 48." T.J. 8 yrs. "...16 wherein he governed more or less through deputies Madison and Monroe." How accurate of a portrait is this? Also he compares T.J. to Mussolini, is this total absurdity from a fascist sympathizer ?

461 upvotes • 4waystreet

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Is it true that Easter was originally the celebration of Ishater, the Assyrian and Babylonian goddess of fertility and sex? If so then how did it become a Christian celebration?

461 upvotes • killingspeerx

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Was there a right wing reaction in America to mask laws during the Spanish flu that is similar to today?

461 upvotes • tankiechrist

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The Bolshoi and Mariinsky Ballet Companies - both founded in Tsarist Russia - remain among the world's most prestigious. How did they survive the Russian revolutions? What was the Soviet ballet scene like?

461 upvotes • Abrytan

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Why is the Rwandan Genocide usually remembered as a self-contained event? Why isn't there as much attention on the concurrent ethnic massacres in Burundi or the Rwandan genocide's spillover into the Congo Wars?

461 upvotes • Sodarn-Hinsane

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Title	Upvotes	Author	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
Was there any negative reaction to those returning from the Fourth Crusade?	461	DuckFacedMonkey
Why did Ireland remain largely Catholic? Specifically, why did continental Protestantism (i.e. Calvinism and Lutheranism, not Anglicanism) not gain traction in Ireland?	461	GusWiyams
Is Sexual Prudeishness really a Judeo-Christian invention?	461	noctheist
The battles of Verdun and the Somme resulted in about 2 million casualties on both sides with apparently little to show for it. Were there any voices raised to stop the carnage on either side of the trenches? If so, whose voices and what happened with them?	461	maxitobonito
Did Emperor Norton I, first emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico, ever state his opinion on the Civil War?	461	Chacochilla
Ezra Pound argued Thomas Jefferson "governed for 24 yrs, and you might say for 48." T.J. 8 yrs. "...16 wherein he governed more or less through deputies Madison and Monroe." How accurate of a portrait is this? Also he compares T.J. to Mussolini, is this total absurdity from a fascist sympathizer ?	461	4waystreet
Is it true that Easter was originally the celebration of Ishater, the Assyrian and Babylonian goddess of fertility and sex? If so then how did it become a Christian celebration?	461	killingspeerx
Was there a right wing reaction in America to mask laws during the Spanish flu that is similar to today?	461	tankiechrist
The Bolshoi and Mariinsky Ballet Companies - both founded in Tsarist Russia - remain among the world's most prestigious. How did they survive the Russian revolutions? What was the Soviet ballet scene like?	461	Abrytan
Why is the Rwandan Genocide usually remembered as a self-contained event? Why isn't there as much attention on the concurrent ethnic massacres in Burundi or the Rwandan genocide's spillover into the Congo Wars?	461	Sodarn-Hinsane