/u/SaintShrink's posts
I'm a newly wealthy man in Britain during the high Victorian eta getting fitted for a new suit at a super fancy tailor. The tailor asks me "What side does sir dress on?" I have no idea what this means. How does the tailor clarify while maintaining propriety appropriate for the era and our station?
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The 1952 Severo-Kurilsk earthquake was the largest in recorded history at the time, but based on a cursory search, interest in it seems to be relegated largely to seismologists. Given the dysfunction of the USSR at the time, how did they respond to a 9.0 magnitude disaster?
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Prior to an understanding of common descent, how did people explain why apes look suspiciously human?
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How did HIV/AIDS go from a certain death sentence that killed scores upon scores in the 1980s to routinely hearing about people living comfortably with the disease for 30 years, at least in the US?
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When and why did we stop thinking of castles as "big fortified stronghold for keeping the hordes at bay" and start thinking of them as "pretty building where the princess lives"?
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Today if I referred to the person who I pay to clean my house as my servant, I would be considered at best incomprehensibly gauche and out of touch and at worst actively dehumanizing. Given that the definitions are the same, when did this connotation of the word change?
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What led the Allies to trust Germany to be independent post WW2, and why was Konrad Adenauer specifically able to gain the trust necessary to be the first independent German leader post-Hitler? It occurs to me that any ambitious German adult would have likely been viewed with suspicion.
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