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Title	Upvotes	Subreddit
when John Snow got them to remove the Broad Street pump handle (the water was infected with cholera, in 1854) did many/any people in that part of london complain about it?	96	AskHistorians
I read a time travel story once where a present day American finds that most women in ancient Babylon think he's amazing in bed because the ancient near East culture puts no importance on pleasing women in bed, consequently most men didn't bother. Is there any evidence that's true?	96	AskHistorians
I once read a novel where one of the main characters is a WW2 German tank commander. Repeatedly he reflects to himself that his Russian counterparts are too reluctant to improvise for fear of screwing it up and being sent to the Gulag. Did that problem really exist in the early soviet army?	95	AskHistorians
Before the Edo period, when combat really mattered for samurai, what happened to you if you were born to that class but had terrible coordinator or were even disabled?	95	AskHistorians
There's a scene in Rome where Vorenus complains that his daughter is wearing too much jewellery "take some of that off. I'm a city magistrate, not the King of Asia". Who does he mean by "the King of Asia"?	94	AskHistorians
in Schindler's List (film) Amon Goeth never actually rapes the maid he's infatuated with, as he's too disgusted by her Jewishness. In reality are there any/many accounts of concentration camp operators who had no such compunctions with regard to the women (or indeed men or children) in their power?	94	AskHistorians
There's a scene in Rome where the two main characters are working as butchers, cutting pigs heads off and hanging the carcasses. If you were a a butcher in Rome did you have to salt down all your stock, or was the idea to sell everything to day you got from the farm?	93	AskHistorians
When I was first diagnosed with autism my mother was told I'd probably end up institutionalised before I reached adulthood. Was that advice typical for the early 90s and/or later 80s?	92	AskHistorians
When Constantinople fell were any Romans left alive in the city? If so what did they do, convert to Islam or just leave?	92	AskHistorians
Suppose I stop in an inn in London in 1268. Is there likely to be some variety in terms of the food available? Or is this going to be a "bread & stew, or nothing" type situation?	92	AskHistorians

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