/u/Dinocrocodile's posts in /r/askhistorians
The Native Potlatch ceremony was only decriminalized in Canada in 1951 but how were Aboriginal spiritual or communal traditions and the right to practice them perceived by the general public in Canada at the time? Did the change come with any new social awareness?
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Wikipedia says that opium pipes were invented in the 16th Century but doesn't say where or how they ended up addicting Victorian Britain. Does anyone have any info here?
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At what point did alcoholism start to become acknowledged as a real medical problem and not just a moral failing?
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Jutta of Sponheim was an anchoress by the time she was 14 which sounds kind of young to me. Was it common for someone so young to become an anchorite?
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Why is it that there were no abolitionist movements in the ancient Mediterranean despite millenia of often brutal slavery?
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Why did the 13 Colonies put a moratorium on mutton of all things? Did this have a lasting impact on the American diet?
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In both World Wars traditional gender roles in Western Europe and North America were challenged and women's suffrage movements came to the forefront as women were called on to enter the workforce and men were siphoned off to war. Were there similar social revolutions in inter and post-war Russia?
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