/u/RusticBohemian's posts
What sort of clothing are the Roman/Byzantine people wearing in the mosaics from the Great Palace of Constantinople?
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Huge mastodons roamed America's great plains only 13,000 years ago along with giant ground sloths and other massive creatures. Had they not been exterminated by humans, would they have survived in the modern warmer climate?
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What sort of clothing are the Roman/Byzantine people wearing in the mosaics from the Great Palace of Constantinople?
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I've seen it claimed in several different places that Americans didn't start taking their shoes off when they entered a home until a large number of Americans GIs returned from the occupation of Japan, where they'd gotten used to the practice. Is this true?
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What drove the people who labored their whole lives to build medieval cathedrals, knowing that they'd never see them completed? What motivated them?
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What role did American scientists play in spreading nuclear technology to France, the Soviet Union, China, and the UK?
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Why was the US so keen on getting Japan to open itself up to trade that it was willing to sail an armada there and force the issue? Japan didn't have much in the way of natural resources. What could they have wanted from it that they couldn't get from China and other Asian nations?
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If I bought some tea in Europe in 1800, the leaves would have come in a compressed block which I would saw off into boiling water to brew. Would this tea taste good by modern standards? Is it significantly different than the tea we drink today?
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What do historians make of Rodney Stark's "God's Battalions: The Case for the Crusades"? It's praised in right-wing circles, and I'm curious to know what the academic view of it is.
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