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IamA translator and subtitler working in-house at one of the largest subtitling companies in the world. Have you ever wondered why professional subtitles are so different from amateur ones? AMA!
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What made the strange, pseudo-historical, pseudo-religious theory of British Israelism persist so far into the 20th century?
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My family's oral history/familial myth suggests our oldest known ancestor was a wealthy man, possibly a noble, who killed someone in a duel in Northern Germany in the 18th century, and fled to the Banat where he ended up living under an assumed name. Is this a plausible story?
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How did the US State department's/the CIA's support of aesthetically radical contemporary art in the 1950s square with the reactionary anti-modernism of the McCarthy era?
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A repeatedly used archetypal image of imperial Rome in 20th-century media is of a black slave, sometimes a child, fanning their master with a giant fan, often made of ostrich feathers. How did this trope come into being and does it have any basis in historical records?
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Was France actively involved, as some have suggested, in the 1987 Burkina Faso coup d'état that deposed Thomas Sankara and gave leadership to the much more France-friendly Blaise Compaoré?
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In the doc From Mambo to Hip Hop (2006), it is suggested that Machito formed his all-black band in 1940 because he would have been excluded from white Cuban-American bands. How did US segregationist sentiments and laws at the time affect black Caribbeans? Any differently than African-Americans?
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