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Did "long trigger" nuclear subs -- meant to surface several months after a nuclear war, listen for orders, and if not finding any, launch a second strike at the other side -- ever exist? Was it even discussed?

288 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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Other than name of Caesar becoming a title in the first century AD (and evolving into Czar and Kaiser), are there any other examples of names becoming titles?

250 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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Before there were modern nation-states, was there a sort of semi-border between, say, Germanic manors and French ones?

47 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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Were there ruins of earlier civilizations that the Greeks puzzled over and wondered about?

17 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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During WWI, what sort of soldier was Adolf Hitler? A good one?

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Why are Great Sphinx's paws almost as big the thing's head?

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Are there any eye, hair, or skin colors that could exist in an otherwise "normal" human but haven't been documented?

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What might the hypothesized "RNA world" have looked like? Would anything have been visible to a Human's naked eye?

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How do scientists get funding to try and accurately reproduce the work of others?

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If I have a sphere of solid hydrogen and I breach that sphere at a normal room temperature, have I just made a large boom?

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Did "long trigger" nuclear subs -- meant to surface several months after a nuclear war, listen for orders, and if not finding any, launch a second strike at the other side -- ever exist? Was it even discussed?	288	AskHistorians
Other than name of Caesar becoming a title in the first century AD (and evolving into Czar and Kaiser), are there any other examples of names becoming titles?	250	AskHistorians
Before there were modern nation-states, was there a sort of semi-border between, say, Germanic manors and French ones?	47	AskHistorians
Were there ruins of earlier civilizations that the Greeks puzzled over and wondered about?	17	AskHistorians
During WWI, what sort of soldier was Adolf Hitler? A good one?	16	AskHistorians
Why are Great Sphinx's paws almost as big the thing's head?	12	AskHistorians
Are there any eye, hair, or skin colors that could exist in an otherwise "normal" human but haven't been documented?	2	askscience
What might the hypothesized "RNA world" have looked like? Would anything have been visible to a Human's naked eye?	1	askscience
How do scientists get funding to try and accurately reproduce the work of others?	1	askscience
If I have a sphere of solid hydrogen and I breach that sphere at a normal room temperature, have I just made a large boom?	1	askscience