/u/Frigorifico's posts in /r/askhistorians
What did the romans do with people with mental disabilities like Down Syndrome?, and what did they think about them?
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In the book 1984 Orwell describes how the party members wear factory clothes, a practice that would indeed happen in China and North Korea but not the USSR, what’s going on here?
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I read in "Guns, germs and steel" that Swedish people adopted agriculture, abandoned it, and then adopted it again, all before 1000 BCE, what is the evidence of these changes?
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Many historians learn to read dead languages, like Assyrian or Sumerian, but can they speak it? Do they have fluent conversations among themselves using these languages?
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What is the history of CVs or Resumes?, when did employers start asking for people to present these documents?
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I know about Luis XVI and Louis XVIII of France (among others) but who was Louis XVII and why is he so hard to google?
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Many people in East Africa have fish taboos, how has this practice affected their population growth?
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What is the logic behind the medieval practice of Animal Trials?, they knew the animals would never comply... didn't they?
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