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While participation trophies are commonly talked about as if they were first given to Millennials, I've also read that they actually arose in the 1970s, before the oldest Millennials were even born, let alone playing little league sports. What's the true history of participation trophies?	4	AskHistorians
The European Convention on Human Rights took effect in 1953, but the European Court of Human Rights was not established until 1959. How did citizens of CoE member states seek redress for ECHR violation in the interim?	4	AskHistorians
The long s (which looks like an uncrossed f) seems to have been phased out of English typography circa 1803-05. Was there any resistance to this?	4	AskHistorians
I've seen Greeks and Turks alike claim that they invented baklava. What's the truth?	4	AskHistorians
Movies of Medieval battles often show the king fighting with his crown on. To the extent they fought at all, wouldn't kings want to blend in with their soldiers rather than announce themselves as a key target? (For some focus, I am thinking of a period from roughly 1000 to 1450)	4	AskHistorians
If I'm not mistaken, Napoleon is still relatively revered in France today. Is that true? If so, why? I don't see any shared values between the expansionistic, imperialistic Napoleon and the pro-republican, relatively non-militaristic French people of today.	4	AskHistorians
In this day and age, how important are translators and translations for the work that historians do?	4	AskHistorians
Before his untimely demise, John, Prince of Schleswig-Holstein, was set to marry the Tsarevna of Russia, Xenia Borisovna Godunova, and even arrived in Russia for the occasion. He was Lutheran, and Xenia was Orthodox, so what religious arrangements were expected?	4	AskHistorians
Before his untimely demise, John, Prince of Schleswig-Holstein, was set to marry the Tsarevna of Russia, Xenia Borisovna Godunova, and even arrived in Russia for the occasion. He was Lutheran, and Xenia was Orthodox, so who was to adopt whose religion and why?	4	AskHistorians
Why don't English-speaking countries have a strong tradition of celebrating and giving gifts on the Epiphany like, e.g., in the Spanish- and French-speaking ones? Has it always been this way or not? If not, was the change related to the adoption of Protestantism?	4	AskHistorians

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