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Why did Churchill intervene to save Coco Chanel from execution?

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Over perhaps a 25 year period of time, the inhabitants of Gilligan's Island survive and exist in the most unlikeliest of ways. What are some actual examples from history of shipwrecked groups actually surviving over a comparable length of time?

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What were the various hygiene practices before the invention of toilet paper, particularly in antiquity, and who actually invented this modern solution?

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TIL Lt. James Michener was posted to the South Pacific as a naval historian. What was the gist of such a policy?

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The British have a kind of reverence towards tea that is absent in the Americas, how did this come about?

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Why were Royal Epithets, even insulting ones, so common at one point in the Middle Ages, and even later, but fall out of use?

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Did the Slave States send their Cotton through Northern Ports for export?

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When did "Fuck" enter the English vocabulary?

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Great Masters who's paintings survived better than other?

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Is there any case in history of diplomatic staff, or an Ambassador, being executed by the host nation?

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Why did Churchill intervene to save Coco Chanel from execution?	862	AskHistorians
Over perhaps a 25 year period of time, the inhabitants of Gilligan's Island survive and exist in the most unlikeliest of ways. What are some actual examples from history of shipwrecked groups actually surviving over a comparable length of time?	125	AskHistorians
What were the various hygiene practices before the invention of toilet paper, particularly in antiquity, and who actually invented this modern solution?	27	AskHistorians
TIL Lt. James Michener was posted to the South Pacific as a naval historian. What was the gist of such a policy?	19	AskHistorians
The British have a kind of reverence towards tea that is absent in the Americas, how did this come about?	10	AskHistorians
Why were Royal Epithets, even insulting ones, so common at one point in the Middle Ages, and even later, but fall out of use?	5	AskHistorians
Did the Slave States send their Cotton through Northern Ports for export?	4	AskHistorians
When did "Fuck" enter the English vocabulary?	3	AskHistorians
Great Masters who's paintings survived better than other?	2	AskHistorians
Is there any case in history of diplomatic staff, or an Ambassador, being executed by the host nation?	1	AskHistorians