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It seems to me that the core of medieval and early modern towns in continental Western Europe was a square (plaza, market, open space, whatever), while in Britain it was a high street. Is this documented or am I imagining it? And if it's the former, then why the divergence?

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[WP] We've met aliens and it has all gone great, we're friends with them, we mingle socially, but something about us we consider completely mundane and unremarkable really freaks them out.

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When did the fashion trend for torn or ripped jeans start?

64 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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Ethnic maps of Austria-Hungary always show parts of Northern Czechia as German. Was the German population in those areas really so dominant to justify this?

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Is there a consensus among international scholars about the ethnic make-up of modern day Transylvania before the Hungarian conquest?

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Looking at a map of the Holy Roman Empire in 1400, most Free Cities seem to be in Swabia. Is there a particular reason for this?

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I'm looking for some data on numbers of passenger international vs domestic for a few global airports

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How common were spelling errors by telegraph operators?

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[EU] During their fight in the skyscraper The Joker manages to hold Batman down for long enough to give him a monologue about how he 'got these scars'.

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Did the Roman republican idea, along with associated values of citizenship, liberty, anti-monarchism, evolve independently or was it borrowed from elsewhere in the Mediterranean?

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It seems to me that the core of medieval and early modern towns in continental Western Europe was a square (plaza, market, open space, whatever), while in Britain it was a high street. Is this documented or am I imagining it? And if it's the former, then why the divergence?	322	AskHistorians
[WP] We've met aliens and it has all gone great, we're friends with them, we mingle socially, but something about us we consider completely mundane and unremarkable really freaks them out.	76	WritingPrompts
When did the fashion trend for torn or ripped jeans start?	64	AskHistorians
Ethnic maps of Austria-Hungary always show parts of Northern Czechia as German. Was the German population in those areas really so dominant to justify this?	48	AskHistorians
Is there a consensus among international scholars about the ethnic make-up of modern day Transylvania before the Hungarian conquest?	7	AskHistorians
Looking at a map of the Holy Roman Empire in 1400, most Free Cities seem to be in Swabia. Is there a particular reason for this?	5	AskHistorians
I'm looking for some data on numbers of passenger international vs domestic for a few global airports	3	aviation
How common were spelling errors by telegraph operators?	3	AskHistorians
[EU] During their fight in the skyscraper The Joker manages to hold Batman down for long enough to give him a monologue about how he 'got these scars'.	2	WritingPrompts
Did the Roman republican idea, along with associated values of citizenship, liberty, anti-monarchism, evolve independently or was it borrowed from elsewhere in the Mediterranean?	1	AskHistorians