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Why do different churches all use a common lectionary?

20 upvotes • r/Episcopalian

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The Soviets wanted Central Asian nomads to settle down and live in cities. Considering that the Soviets had no qualms forcefully displacing and relocating other peoples, even in remote places like Chukotka, why didn't they just round up the nomads and give them apartments?

16 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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Why do horseshoe crab swim upside down?

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Did Plains Indians really use "every part of the buffalo"?

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Why did Cyprus choose to adopt an American-style presidential system of government, as opposed to a parliamentary or semi-presidential system that is typical throughout the rest of Europe?

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How did Tromso get settled? Why would such a large number of people in the 1500s-1700s go so far north to such a rugged place?

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The movie "The Great Wall" depicts Western European mercenaries working in Song Dynasty China. Did such arrangements ever exist?

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What do we know about Pietro Rombulo, Sicilian courtier in the Ethiopian court in the 1400s?

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What was so "glorious" about the Glorious First of June?

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How did East Germany become the second-most powerful country in the Eastern Bloc, despite having a small land area and middling population?

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Why do different churches all use a common lectionary?	20	Episcopalian
The Soviets wanted Central Asian nomads to settle down and live in cities. Considering that the Soviets had no qualms forcefully displacing and relocating other peoples, even in remote places like Chukotka, why didn't they just round up the nomads and give them apartments?	16	AskHistorians
Why do horseshoe crab swim upside down?	16	askscience
Did Plains Indians really use "every part of the buffalo"?	13	AskHistorians
Why did Cyprus choose to adopt an American-style presidential system of government, as opposed to a parliamentary or semi-presidential system that is typical throughout the rest of Europe?	11	AskHistorians
How did Tromso get settled? Why would such a large number of people in the 1500s-1700s go so far north to such a rugged place?	10	AskHistorians
The movie "The Great Wall" depicts Western European mercenaries working in Song Dynasty China. Did such arrangements ever exist?	9	AskHistorians
What do we know about Pietro Rombulo, Sicilian courtier in the Ethiopian court in the 1400s?	9	AskHistorians
What was so "glorious" about the Glorious First of June?	8	AskHistorians
How did East Germany become the second-most powerful country in the Eastern Bloc, despite having a small land area and middling population?	8	AskHistorians