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I once heard that during the 1348-50 Bubonic Plague outbreak, European Jewish communities suffered less severely than the general population due to good hygiene. Is there any truth to this?	183
Wikipedia describes "Roaring" Dan Seavey - a "sailor, fisherman, farmer, saloon keeper, prospector, U.S. marshal, thief, poacher, smuggler, hijacker, human trafficker, and timber pirate" on the Great Lakes. How on earth could a pirate operate there so brazenly and for so long in the 1900s?	174
In 1984 Harry Enfield's song "Loadsamoney (Doin' Up the House)" hit No.4 on the UK singles Chart. I, uh... how? Why?	156
In Bernard Cornwell's 1990 book, 'Sharpe's Waterloo', and in the 1997 TV adaptation of the same name, William II, The Prince of Orange, is portrayed as a militarily incompetent coward. What was the real Prince of Orange's military record, and is there any basis to Cornwell's polemnic depiction?	137
What did Christianity and honey have in common? The answer will scare the Bee-Jesus out of you!	130
AskHistorians Podcast 132 - The Missouri Compromise of 1820: A tale of slavery, politics and foreshadowing with /u/freedmenspatrol	66
How did Australian Counterinsurgency tactics and strategies differ from those employed by the US in Vietnam? (Cross-post /r/WarCollege)	51
Every time my Pa microwaved one of his hearing aids or dropped one in his gin, it was covered by the Australian Dept. of Veterans' Affairs. What access to government medical support could German veterans of WWII claim in East Germany?	48
The Wikipedia page for the Ancient Egyptian Goddess, Neith, lists her as "the goddess of wisdom, weaving, the cosmos, mothers, rivers, water, childbirth, hunting, war, and fate". It seems like she was a very busy woman. Did cults / deities frequently have such varied areas of influence?	48
What associations surrounded the concept of Virginity in Han China? Would these associations be comparable to the concept of virginity in Pagan Imperial Rome?	46

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