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I heard recently on a podcast that putting an orange on the seder plate was not a response to a misogynist rabbi, which is an urban legend. So what is the real story?

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Why did prohibition remain in effect on Prince Edward Island for so long after ending in the rest of Canada?

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Wikipedia suggests that LP sales fell in the late 70s, ending a golden era, due to a "resurgence in the film industry and the popularity of video arcade games". Is this true, or even measurable/documentable?

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In the recent Whitney Houston biopic, there was a scene in which she was protested against for not being "black enough". Seems a bit far-fetched to me, was there really significant pushback against her for her pop albums?

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Why is Jim Thorpe buried in Jim Thorpe, PA?

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Why were so many European postal services privatized in the 90s?

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Were the gorgeous train travel posters from the first decades of the 1900s actually effective advertising or more just the largesse of profitable (or at least well-funded) corporations?

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How did Colombia and Peru both have virulent anti-Semitic panics in the 1930s when both countries had essentially zero Jewish people?

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Chicago's iconic, massive, and luxurious Wrigley Building was built in 1920. How was chewing gum production really such a high-value business to support the construction of such a structure and what exactly would office workers have been doing in it?

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Did the authors of the Lost Generation and the Harlem Renaissance have any direct correspondence or influence with each other, as two English-language literary movements from the same decade?

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I heard recently on a podcast that putting an orange on the seder plate was not a response to a misogynist rabbi, which is an urban legend. So what is the real story?	6	AskHistorians
Why did prohibition remain in effect on Prince Edward Island for so long after ending in the rest of Canada?	6	AskHistorians
Wikipedia suggests that LP sales fell in the late 70s, ending a golden era, due to a "resurgence in the film industry and the popularity of video arcade games". Is this true, or even measurable/documentable?	6	AskHistorians
In the recent Whitney Houston biopic, there was a scene in which she was protested against for not being "black enough". Seems a bit far-fetched to me, was there really significant pushback against her for her pop albums?	6	AskHistorians
Why is Jim Thorpe buried in Jim Thorpe, PA?	5	AskHistorians
Why were so many European postal services privatized in the 90s?	5	AskHistorians
Were the gorgeous train travel posters from the first decades of the 1900s actually effective advertising or more just the largesse of profitable (or at least well-funded) corporations?	3	AskHistorians
How did Colombia and Peru both have virulent anti-Semitic panics in the 1930s when both countries had essentially zero Jewish people?	3	AskHistorians
Chicago's iconic, massive, and luxurious Wrigley Building was built in 1920. How was chewing gum production really such a high-value business to support the construction of such a structure and what exactly would office workers have been doing in it?	3	AskHistorians
Did the authors of the Lost Generation and the Harlem Renaissance have any direct correspondence or influence with each other, as two English-language literary movements from the same decade?	3	AskHistorians