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Why do Americans and British people have different terms for the same cuts of beef? What caused American and British butchery traditions to diverge?

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Everything I've read about sieges of castles has said that once the walls were breached, defeat was inevitable. Were any sieges defeated at a castle's secondary defensive positions?

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When Roald Dahl wrote Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in 1964, did he come up with the character Augustus Gloop himself, or was he referencing an existing trope?

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[EU] Captain Jonathan Archer accidentally activates a time machine, and brings a passenger aboard Enterprise: his great-great-grandfather, Sterling Archer

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I am a young English farmer in the 1400s. How does my diet change from day to day, month to month, and year to year?

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How could the Connecticut government have possibly hoped to control all the land it claimed in Colonial America?

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How did slaveholders in the antebellum USA react to "freedom songs"?

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[WP] What happens when it is discovered that you can apply mathematical operations to ordinary objects by sticking post-it notes on them?

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[WP] Many years after an apocylapse, the world has continued to grow and is now better off than it was before. How do people think of the great calamity in the past?

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When did labor unions decline in popular opinion in the US? Were they ever viewed favorably? Is the present disenfatuation with them a recent phenomenon?

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Why do Americans and British people have different terms for the same cuts of beef? What caused American and British butchery traditions to diverge?	2405	AskHistorians
Everything I've read about sieges of castles has said that once the walls were breached, defeat was inevitable. Were any sieges defeated at a castle's secondary defensive positions?	401	AskHistorians
When Roald Dahl wrote Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in 1964, did he come up with the character Augustus Gloop himself, or was he referencing an existing trope?	233	AskHistorians
[EU] Captain Jonathan Archer accidentally activates a time machine, and brings a passenger aboard Enterprise: his great-great-grandfather, Sterling Archer	47	WritingPrompts
I am a young English farmer in the 1400s. How does my diet change from day to day, month to month, and year to year?	17	AskHistorians
How could the Connecticut government have possibly hoped to control all the land it claimed in Colonial America?	14	AskHistorians
How did slaveholders in the antebellum USA react to "freedom songs"?	11	AskHistorians
[WP] What happens when it is discovered that you can apply mathematical operations to ordinary objects by sticking post-it notes on them?	5	WritingPrompts
[WP] Many years after an apocylapse, the world has continued to grow and is now better off than it was before. How do people think of the great calamity in the past?	4	WritingPrompts
When did labor unions decline in popular opinion in the US? Were they ever viewed favorably? Is the present disenfatuation with them a recent phenomenon?	3	AskHistorians