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How did Asian countries come to adopt the western calendar? It seems especially weird to me that historically anti-western countries like China/North Korea/Vietnam all use a western calendar.

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How different are the surgical face masks of today from those of 1918 (during the Spanish flu)? And when did surgical masks become something that an average American could buy?

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Religious people use Memorial Day to express the idea that "American soldiers died for our right to worship how we see fit". Did that focus on freedom of religion exist in the earliest memorial day practices, or is it an artifact of the cold war and fighting "atheist communism"?

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How/when did the trope of bad Soviet engineering develop in the West? Was this part of a delibrate propaganda campaign?

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How did Dick go from being a common male name to becoming slang for penis and someone who is mean?

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How did US education change when the Dept of Education was established in 1979?

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I recently read Gavan McCormack's "Target North Korea" about the history of the Korean nuclear crisis. I have several specific questions about Korean history and the book's claims in particular.

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How much did the hitmen of latin american druglords get paid? Did they get paid a salary or on a per-job basis?

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How did extended solitary confinement become an accepted practice in the American penal system?

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When did Jesus get long hair and abeard in popular art? Is this a realistic depiction of how he might have groomed himself?

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How did Asian countries come to adopt the western calendar? It seems especially weird to me that historically anti-western countries like China/North Korea/Vietnam all use a western calendar.	5	AskHistorians
How different are the surgical face masks of today from those of 1918 (during the Spanish flu)? And when did surgical masks become something that an average American could buy?	5	AskHistorians
Religious people use Memorial Day to express the idea that "American soldiers died for our right to worship how we see fit". Did that focus on freedom of religion exist in the earliest memorial day practices, or is it an artifact of the cold war and fighting "atheist communism"?	4	AskHistorians
How/when did the trope of bad Soviet engineering develop in the West? Was this part of a delibrate propaganda campaign?	4	AskHistorians
How did Dick go from being a common male name to becoming slang for penis and someone who is mean?	4	AskHistorians
How did US education change when the Dept of Education was established in 1979?	4	AskHistorians
I recently read Gavan McCormack's "Target North Korea" about the history of the Korean nuclear crisis. I have several specific questions about Korean history and the book's claims in particular.	4	AskHistorians
How much did the hitmen of latin american druglords get paid? Did they get paid a salary or on a per-job basis?	4	AskHistorians
How did extended solitary confinement become an accepted practice in the American penal system?	4	AskHistorians
When did Jesus get long hair and abeard in popular art? Is this a realistic depiction of how he might have groomed himself?	4	AskHistorians