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How did Georgia and Armenia keep their own traditional scripts, while most other languages of the USSR switched to Cyrillic?

381 upvotes • Erezen

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In tank games aiming for a weak spot in armor, and angling armor to make it effectively thicker are common practice. Were tank crews of the past trained in these techniques, or was battle too hectic to employ these methods?

381 upvotes • roguemerc96

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WIBTA if I (m18) challenged my friend (m18) to a duel because he wouldn’t concede that I had laid claim to the trout at dinner first?

381 upvotes • John_G_Adams

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Why was the union crippled by such incompetent generals during the early stages of the Civil War?

381 upvotes • RusticBohemian

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What was the U.S.A government's strategy for disseminating information on the atomic bombs and The Manhattan Project to the public?

381 upvotes • anoriginalmoniker

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I was taught that the US Power Grid is dangerously outdated. What is the history of that?

381 upvotes • MercuryEnigma

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After Christianity became the Roman Empire's state religion, how did people reconcile that with the fact that it was the Romans who crucified Jesus in the first place?

381 upvotes • 0f-bajor

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Lethal Weapon 2 explicitly has Apartheid South African diplomats as its villains. How was this generally received when the film came out in 1989?

381 upvotes • DoctorEmperor

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Mike Duncan's Revolutions podcast is ending. Any reviews?

381 upvotes • scarlet_sage

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How did the English prepositions "on" and "off" come to be used to describe the state of powered devices?

381 upvotes • Philip_of_mastadon

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Title	Upvotes	Author	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
How did Georgia and Armenia keep their own traditional scripts, while most other languages of the USSR switched to Cyrillic?	381	Erezen
In tank games aiming for a weak spot in armor, and angling armor to make it effectively thicker are common practice. Were tank crews of the past trained in these techniques, or was battle too hectic to employ these methods?	381	roguemerc96
WIBTA if I (m18) challenged my friend (m18) to a duel because he wouldn’t concede that I had laid claim to the trout at dinner first?	381	John_G_Adams
Why was the union crippled by such incompetent generals during the early stages of the Civil War?	381	RusticBohemian
What was the U.S.A government's strategy for disseminating information on the atomic bombs and The Manhattan Project to the public?	381	anoriginalmoniker
I was taught that the US Power Grid is dangerously outdated. What is the history of that?	381	MercuryEnigma
After Christianity became the Roman Empire's state religion, how did people reconcile that with the fact that it was the Romans who crucified Jesus in the first place?	381	0f-bajor
Lethal Weapon 2 explicitly has Apartheid South African diplomats as its villains. How was this generally received when the film came out in 1989?	381	DoctorEmperor
Mike Duncan's Revolutions podcast is ending. Any reviews?	381	scarlet_sage
How did the English prepositions "on" and "off" come to be used to describe the state of powered devices?	381	Philip_of_mastadon