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During and after the Black Tuesday crash of 1929 and the Great Depression, did most stocks permanently go bust, or was it a temporary, if severe, downturn? Were there people willing and able to "weather the storm" and end up with a long-term profit?

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To what extent do historians consider great artists to be the products of the society and culture of their times, rather than standalone geniuses? Could there be a French Shakespeare, or an English Moliere?

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18th-century Russia had four Empresses-regnant (most famously, Catherine the Great), wielding considerable, formally absolute power. How did a patriarchal, heavily religious society, with ordinary women generally having next to no power or representation, end up accepting female rulers as autocrats?

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If photons don't experience time, how can they have temporal properties like frequency and wavelength?

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Have there been any conjectures proven false, despite being widely believed to be true prior to the disproval?

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I have a sweet tooth. How limited would my options be as an average urban resident in western Europe of the High middle ages?

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Why did Silent Era movies use full-screen text inserts, rather than text being in the bottom of the screen like modern-day captions?

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Does the presence of heavy elements in the Earth indicate we are made from a remnants of a former supernova? Was it part of the Milky Way? Do we know anything about its nature, stellar environment, or even when it occurred?

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Many later states claimed heritage from the Romans and Caesar in particular, such as naming their kings Kaiser/Tzar, or calling their empires such as HRE or "Third Rome" (Russia). Have there been any post-Roman empires that claimed heritage/legitimacy from the Greeks or Alexander?

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What's the oldest Roman event for which we have historical evidence?

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During and after the Black Tuesday crash of 1929 and the Great Depression, did most stocks permanently go bust, or was it a temporary, if severe, downturn? Were there people willing and able to "weather the storm" and end up with a long-term profit?	59	AskHistorians
To what extent do historians consider great artists to be the products of the society and culture of their times, rather than standalone geniuses? Could there be a French Shakespeare, or an English Moliere?	53	AskHistorians
18th-century Russia had four Empresses-regnant (most famously, Catherine the Great), wielding considerable, formally absolute power. How did a patriarchal, heavily religious society, with ordinary women generally having next to no power or representation, end up accepting female rulers as autocrats?	46	AskHistorians
If photons don't experience time, how can they have temporal properties like frequency and wavelength?	43	askscience
Have there been any conjectures proven false, despite being widely believed to be true prior to the disproval?	41	askscience
I have a sweet tooth. How limited would my options be as an average urban resident in western Europe of the High middle ages?	40	AskHistorians
Why did Silent Era movies use full-screen text inserts, rather than text being in the bottom of the screen like modern-day captions?	39	AskHistorians
Does the presence of heavy elements in the Earth indicate we are made from a remnants of a former supernova? Was it part of the Milky Way? Do we know anything about its nature, stellar environment, or even when it occurred?	39	askscience
Many later states claimed heritage from the Romans and Caesar in particular, such as naming their kings Kaiser/Tzar, or calling their empires such as HRE or "Third Rome" (Russia). Have there been any post-Roman empires that claimed heritage/legitimacy from the Greeks or Alexander?	34	AskHistorians
What's the oldest Roman event for which we have historical evidence?	34	AskHistorians