/u/JJVMT's posts
When the Romans conquered other Indo-European speakers (such as Celtic and Germanic peoples), did they have any sense of the now well-established fact that such peoples' languages were related to their own?
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How and when did poetry become considered an "unmanly" pursuit in the English-speaking world? Has a similar trend occurred in the rest of the Western world?
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The classic plague-doctor bird-beak mask seems not to have existed before the 17th century. What would plague-doctors in the 14th century have worn to try to protect themselves?
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Why is so much of the iconography associated with present-day Mexican Independence Day celebrations actually from the Mexican Revolution from 100 years later (e.g., charro outfits, big Zapata-style mustaches, Adelita dresses, etc.)?
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When I finished my BA in History in 2011, I got a sense that there was an idea among serious historians that, if it's not boring, it's not good/serious/real history. Is there an inherent mutual exclusivity between engaging narratives and due historical complexity/nuance?
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How did the Maniot Greeks manage to remain pagan until the ninth century AD, given how early other Greeks were Christianized?
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How did black metal develop such a strong association with far-right politics, especially when compared to other metal subgenres?
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Blackbeard, Black Bart, Captain Kidd, Captain Morgan, etc... All the big names of the Golden Age of Piracy seem to be British. Was late-17th/early-18th-c. Atlantic piracy really overwhelmingly British, or have Anglo-Americentric views of that period minimized pirates of other nations? (6th attempt)
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There seem to be a lot of rumors (some substantiated and some not) of homosexual activity by famous English Shakespearean actors of the 20th century. Was there an implicit connection between 20th-c. English theatre culture and gay culture, and if so, how did this come about?
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Was the use of dental braces for purely cosmetic ends ever stigmatized the way that rhinoplasties, hair transplants, and other aesthetic procedures have been in more recent history? E.g., could rumors that Hollywood stars only had perfect teeth due to braces have been in old-time gossip columns?
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