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Why did Italians become "white" but Latinos did not?

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How old are kitchens? (As in, an entire room devoted to cooking instead of just a cauldron over the main room's fireplace)

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Why did Abraham Lincoln drop his vice president, and why did he choose Andrew Johnson instead?

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I just found out on Colbert Report that Jimmy Carter's malaise speech doesn't actually include the word "malaise." So why is it called that??

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Is there any evidence that King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson actually had Nazi sympathies, or was that all rumor?

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How old is the concept of "pets" (as in, animals kept by households despite having no practical use)? Do they predate history?

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What happened to the suffragettes after suffrage? Or, I guess, what happened to the women's movement between first and second-wave feminism?

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Around when did guns became useful and widespread enough that they became a factor in street crime?

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Was Al Capone famous before the Feds took him down? Would the average man in Chicago known who he was? In New York?

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On an episode of Sleepy Hollow, Det. Mills asks time-traveling Revolutionary War soldier Ichabod what the heck the Fathers were thinking with the Second Amendment, and he says that several of his compatriots had misgivings about it. Was there any actual historical pushback on the Second Amendment?

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Title	Upvotes	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
Why did Italians become "white" but Latinos did not?	117
How old are kitchens? (As in, an entire room devoted to cooking instead of just a cauldron over the main room's fireplace)	89
Why did Abraham Lincoln drop his vice president, and why did he choose Andrew Johnson instead?	87
I just found out on Colbert Report that Jimmy Carter's malaise speech doesn't actually include the word "malaise." So why is it called that??	81
Is there any evidence that King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson actually had Nazi sympathies, or was that all rumor?	81
How old is the concept of "pets" (as in, animals kept by households despite having no practical use)? Do they predate history?	79
What happened to the suffragettes after suffrage? Or, I guess, what happened to the women's movement between first and second-wave feminism?	78
Around when did guns became useful and widespread enough that they became a factor in street crime?	76
Was Al Capone famous before the Feds took him down? Would the average man in Chicago known who he was? In New York?	74
On an episode of Sleepy Hollow, Det. Mills asks time-traveling Revolutionary War soldier Ichabod what the heck the Fathers were thinking with the Second Amendment, and he says that several of his compatriots had misgivings about it. Was there any actual historical pushback on the Second Amendment?	70