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Is it true that China could have found and colonized America first but they stopped voyaging because it was deemed too expensive, or for other reasons?

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What happened to Hitler's bank account?

1692 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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[AMA Request] Someone who works for a congressperson, taking calls from constituents.

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Why do some parts of the eyes not need blood vessels?

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Was Çatalhöyük a real city, or more of a proto-city?

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How did Delaware end up the de facto arbiter of US corporate law?

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I read that Zofia Posmysz was sent to Auschwitz for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets. What exactly were in those leaflets? Are there any surviving copies?

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Were the coffeehouses of London and the salons of France seen as seething cauldrons of unrest which threatened society in their own time, only later to be romanticized as hotspots of social progress?

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Is it true that in the 18th century French people liked to compare their conflict with England to Rome's struggle with Carthage (a corrupt maritime mercantile civilization)?

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Why did British Latin disappear but Celtic not disappear after the Germanic invasions? Were the Latins more centralized and as a result assimilated easier?

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Is it true that China could have found and colonized America first but they stopped voyaging because it was deemed too expensive, or for other reasons?	4757	AskHistorians
What happened to Hitler's bank account?	1692	AskHistorians
[AMA Request] Someone who works for a congressperson, taking calls from constituents.	1019	IAmA
Why do some parts of the eyes not need blood vessels?	505	askscience
Was Çatalhöyük a real city, or more of a proto-city?	131	AskHistorians
How did Delaware end up the de facto arbiter of US corporate law?	121	AskHistorians
I read that Zofia Posmysz was sent to Auschwitz for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets. What exactly were in those leaflets? Are there any surviving copies?	113	AskHistorians
Were the coffeehouses of London and the salons of France seen as seething cauldrons of unrest which threatened society in their own time, only later to be romanticized as hotspots of social progress?	66	AskHistorians
Is it true that in the 18th century French people liked to compare their conflict with England to Rome's struggle with Carthage (a corrupt maritime mercantile civilization)?	54	AskHistorians
Why did British Latin disappear but Celtic not disappear after the Germanic invasions? Were the Latins more centralized and as a result assimilated easier?	38	AskHistorians