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The Thuggees, the Taiping, the Shakers, the Cathars, the Manicheans... what are some influential dead religious movements from history that not many people know about?
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I have seen "You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time" attributed to Abraham Lincoln, PT Barnum, and James Thurber: is the actual source of this quote lost?
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Why do some flowers (specifically the dandelions on my lawn right now) close up during the night and reopen in the morning?
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I just read about the Bugis people, the Vikings of Southeast Asia because they discovered Australia and New Guinea long before the European Age of Discovery. What other maritime cultures had a golden era of exploration in the Middle Ages?
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How and why did the American Second Amendment change in popular and legal perception and meaning over time, from Redcoats and muskets and community service on the frontier, to criminals and handguns and personal liberty in urban environments?
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[WP] You're a time traveler whose only agenda is visiting rural communities from centuries past with some popcorn, a popcorn maker, a projector, some film reels, and sharing with them one of your beloved films, before disappearing like the wizard they think you are. Until one day...
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I have a question about certifying historical research as accurate and truthful for a commemoration (US Revolutionary War era, Alexander Hamilton)
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In "The Sound of Music," Baron von Trapp was a navy officer, which I assumed was a joke since Austria is a landlocked nation, but I was surprised to learn he had a distinguished military record in WWI... how relevant was Austro-Hungarian naval power in world history?
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When the Indian subcontinent collided with the Eurasian plate, it shoved the Himalayan Mountains into the air. But why didn't the subcontinent slide under the plate, the way they do in subduction zones everywhere else in the world?
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