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Why did the Japanese attitude towards POWs switch so violently from the Russo-Japanese War to WWII?

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How has the Arabic language evolved over the millennia (both written and spoken)? Would someone today be able to read the Qu'ran as it was original written and spoken?

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META: This week is the centennial of the October Revolution in Russia. Quite an important event, is there anything Askhistorians have planned? Is next week's theme going to the on the Russian Revolution?

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I heard from a German woman the other day that traditional German baby names lost popularity in the decades following WW2 (in favour of non-German names, ex. Italian and Danish) as a form of collective shame. Did this really happen?

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How accurate is David Graeber's characterization of the "North European idea of life-cycle service"? He states that "Essentially, almost everyone was expected to spend roughly the fist seven to fifteen years of his or her working life as a servant in someone else’s household."

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I visited a rural town in Hungary last year; an old man sang a Hungarian-language rendition of "Drunken Sailor" to myself and my party. When and how did such a tune become transmitted to a landlocked culture ?

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Why did the Nazis devote resources to accelerating the Holocaust as they were losing the war?

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What do trained historians think of Graeber's and Wengrow's new book, "The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity"?

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Why did Athens produce so many lasting literary sources in contrast to its contemporaries? (i.e. Sparta, the Achaemenids, etc.)

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The French occupation of the German Rhineland following WWI was enforced in part with tens of thousands of black colonial soldiers. This was considered an insult by many Germans; was this an intentional racialized policy adopted by the French?

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Why did the Japanese attitude towards POWs switch so violently from the Russo-Japanese War to WWII?	64	AskHistorians
How has the Arabic language evolved over the millennia (both written and spoken)? Would someone today be able to read the Qu'ran as it was original written and spoken?	61	AskHistorians
META: This week is the centennial of the October Revolution in Russia. Quite an important event, is there anything Askhistorians have planned? Is next week's theme going to the on the Russian Revolution?	60	AskHistorians
I heard from a German woman the other day that traditional German baby names lost popularity in the decades following WW2 (in favour of non-German names, ex. Italian and Danish) as a form of collective shame. Did this really happen?	60	AskHistorians
How accurate is David Graeber's characterization of the "North European idea of life-cycle service"? He states that "Essentially, almost everyone was expected to spend roughly the fist seven to fifteen years of his or her working life as a servant in someone else’s household."	56	AskHistorians
I visited a rural town in Hungary last year; an old man sang a Hungarian-language rendition of "Drunken Sailor" to myself and my party. When and how did such a tune become transmitted to a landlocked culture ?	56	AskHistorians
Why did the Nazis devote resources to accelerating the Holocaust as they were losing the war?	54	AskHistorians
What do trained historians think of Graeber's and Wengrow's new book, "The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity"?	53	AskHistorians
Why did Athens produce so many lasting literary sources in contrast to its contemporaries? (i.e. Sparta, the Achaemenids, etc.)	52	AskHistorians
The French occupation of the German Rhineland following WWI was enforced in part with tens of thousands of black colonial soldiers. This was considered an insult by many Germans; was this an intentional racialized policy adopted by the French?	52	AskHistorians