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How did pizza come to be associated with "rad", kid, cool surfer culture in the 80s and 90s?

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How did Native Americans handle the heat of the summer?

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I've read the American Revolution described as a "bourgeois" revolution of property owners and colonial elites. If this is true, how did the colonial leaders motivate the average poor American farmer to fight in the revolution?

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What did the townspeople of Gettysburg do while the battle was fought around their city?

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During the trial for the assassins of Inukai Tsuyoshi, 9 Japanese schoolboys sent in their severed pinky fingers to convince the judge that they should be tried instead of the accused. Was this a common practice in pre-war Japan and did they have a chance of succeeding?

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I've read that when James VI was born, his mother refused to let a priest spit into the his mouth at his baptism as was the custom. What was the origin and the meaning of this custom?

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How did pizza come to be associated with "rad", kid, cool surfer culture?

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How true is the anecdote that the Americans spent millions on a pen for astronauts that could write upside down, while the Soviets just gave their cosmonauts a pencil?

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How common were kissing booths in American carnivals?

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How did major media companies perceive the internet in the mid to late 90s?

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Title	Upvotes	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
How did pizza come to be associated with "rad", kid, cool surfer culture in the 80s and 90s?	2001
How did Native Americans handle the heat of the summer?	329
I've read the American Revolution described as a "bourgeois" revolution of property owners and colonial elites. If this is true, how did the colonial leaders motivate the average poor American farmer to fight in the revolution?	134
What did the townspeople of Gettysburg do while the battle was fought around their city?	60
During the trial for the assassins of Inukai Tsuyoshi, 9 Japanese schoolboys sent in their severed pinky fingers to convince the judge that they should be tried instead of the accused. Was this a common practice in pre-war Japan and did they have a chance of succeeding?	33
I've read that when James VI was born, his mother refused to let a priest spit into the his mouth at his baptism as was the custom. What was the origin and the meaning of this custom?	32
How did pizza come to be associated with "rad", kid, cool surfer culture?	31
How true is the anecdote that the Americans spent millions on a pen for astronauts that could write upside down, while the Soviets just gave their cosmonauts a pencil?	30
How common were kissing booths in American carnivals?	26
How did major media companies perceive the internet in the mid to late 90s?	20