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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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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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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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Did the United States Government itself ever own slaves?

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Title	Upvotes	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
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
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
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
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
How could the Connecticut government have possibly hoped to control all the land it claimed in Colonial America?	14
How did slaveholders in the antebellum USA react to "freedom songs"?	11
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
Did the United States Government itself ever own slaves?	2