/u/hilarymeggin's posts

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I’ve read that when caterpillars are in their cocoons, they dissolve completely into goo; no original parts survive in the butterfly. How is the butterfly made from the goo? Is there an embryo that grows and uses the goo like a yolk sac? Or does the goo somehow arrange itself into new body parts?	9754	askscience
Once I saw a play about Eleanor Roosevelt where she recounts a scene of a ship returning to the US at the end of WWWII. She says that several nurses committed suicide by jumping to the deck, because they couldn’t stand the cheering of the crowd after the horror they had seen. Did this really happen?	2019	AskHistorians
In the Crown, Winston Churchill tells Queen Elizabeth that the monarch never offers the prime minister refreshment, and the prime minister never sits. In Darkest Hour, King George VI and Winston Churchill sit down to lunch together weekly. Who is right?	340	AskHistorians
The first transatlantic cable must have been a sea-change in communications... is it correct to assume that the time it took for news to travel from the US to Europe went from weeks/months to instant? Are there firsthand sources of people marveling at this and the impact on life as they knew it?	235	AskHistorians
When slaveholding statesmen like Washington and Jefferson visited wealthy British and European households, did they take enslaved Africans American valets and ladies’ maids with them? How were these enslaved servants received by the white household staff?	135	AskHistorians
Why were chariots such a battlefield advancement? Wouldn’t a horseman shooting arrows from on horseback be equally effective, if not more, because a chariot’s wheels could get stuck in obstacles?	113	AskHistorians
What technological advancements would made life more comfortable for a well-to-do person in the 1700s compared to the 1600s?	73	AskHistorians
To Jesus's 1st century Jewish contemporaries, would it have been considered blasphemous to say that a human was an incarnation of God?	47	AskHistorians
[WP] You get in your car in the dark, and like always, you relieve the tension with a dumb joke. “Any serial killers in the car with me, please make yourselves known.” But this time, someone answers.	47	WritingPrompts
When did the British start drinking tea? What did they drink before? Before sugarcane was grown in the Caribbean, what was the source of sugar for cakes and confections ? Were those foods less common before?	34	AskHistorians

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