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The letters I have seen from America from the Revolutionary and Civil wars used very formal language. Did people generally talk like that or was there a difference between written and spoken English at the time?

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When where and why did the concept of someone/something being racist first develop?

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Is the desire of people like bin Laden to establish a pan Islamic Caliphate in the late 80s/early 90s a direct response to the failure of ideas like Nasser's pan Arab movement?

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When did male rape become linked with American prisons in popular culture?

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Is there anything cultural (trends, fashions, traditions, etc) that began in either ancient Rome or ancient China and ended up spreading to the other? If so how close to the original was the thing in question by the time it spread so far away?

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[WP] Archeologists unearth a burial site in the north of Finland containing 10,000 bodies and the warning "Santa is coming to town."

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Why is it that Olympic host countries see significant spikes in their medal count?

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How did the ability for the average person to listen to recorded music via the radio (or similar methods) affect the societies and cultures it encountered as the technology spread?

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Why are such a high percentage of humans found in India and China? (x-post from r/anthropology)

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How much influence did the Roman government (like with Constantine) have in the development of what is currently thought of as the Christian bible?

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The letters I have seen from America from the Revolutionary and Civil wars used very formal language. Did people generally talk like that or was there a difference between written and spoken English at the time?	14	AskHistorians
When where and why did the concept of someone/something being racist first develop?	13	AskHistorians
Is the desire of people like bin Laden to establish a pan Islamic Caliphate in the late 80s/early 90s a direct response to the failure of ideas like Nasser's pan Arab movement?	11	AskHistorians
When did male rape become linked with American prisons in popular culture?	11	AskHistorians
Is there anything cultural (trends, fashions, traditions, etc) that began in either ancient Rome or ancient China and ended up spreading to the other? If so how close to the original was the thing in question by the time it spread so far away?	11	AskHistorians
[WP] Archeologists unearth a burial site in the north of Finland containing 10,000 bodies and the warning "Santa is coming to town."	11	WritingPrompts
Why is it that Olympic host countries see significant spikes in their medal count?	10	AskHistorians
How did the ability for the average person to listen to recorded music via the radio (or similar methods) affect the societies and cultures it encountered as the technology spread?	10	AskHistorians
Why are such a high percentage of humans found in India and China? (x-post from r/anthropology)	10	AskHistorians
How much influence did the Roman government (like with Constantine) have in the development of what is currently thought of as the Christian bible?	9	AskHistorians