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Fans coming up with head canon to explain things the writers clearly just overlooked or got screwed up by the short season

289 upvotes • r/freefolk

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Do modern large-scale organized hooligan fights give any insights into how pre-firearms battles were fought?

153 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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It has been stated that "the color of the sky did not elicit much myth-making, even by the Greeks or Chinese" which seems hard to believe. Was there really not much cultural mythology developed to explain why the sky is blue?

60 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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It's late into operation Barabarossa, fall of 1941. How are Britain and the U.S. communicating with Stalin and the Soviet Union? Through Iran? The North Sea? Vladivostok?

15 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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Why were there so few German-American organized crime groups?

13 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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Units of soldiers being thrown into "disorder" and "confusion" by gunfire is a common theme in early/mid gunpowder era primary sources, but what would this actually look like? Are there any depictions of this in film or other media?

4 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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Non-western scientists/artists/etc who are considered highly influential today but weren't appreciated in their time?

4 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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What Non-Eurocentric scientists/artists/etc are considered highly influential today but weren't appreciated in their time?

4 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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What was McClellan/the Pinkertons/etc. response when asked how it was possible for the Confederacy to field the highly inflated number of soldiers they claimed to be in the field?

3 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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Is the life cycle of any human pathogen dependent on the death of its host?

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Title	Upvotes	Subreddit	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
Fans coming up with head canon to explain things the writers clearly just overlooked or got screwed up by the short season	289	freefolk
Do modern large-scale organized hooligan fights give any insights into how pre-firearms battles were fought?	153	AskHistorians
It has been stated that "the color of the sky did not elicit much myth-making, even by the Greeks or Chinese" which seems hard to believe. Was there really not much cultural mythology developed to explain why the sky is blue?	60	AskHistorians
It's late into operation Barabarossa, fall of 1941. How are Britain and the U.S. communicating with Stalin and the Soviet Union? Through Iran? The North Sea? Vladivostok?	15	AskHistorians
Why were there so few German-American organized crime groups?	13	AskHistorians
Units of soldiers being thrown into "disorder" and "confusion" by gunfire is a common theme in early/mid gunpowder era primary sources, but what would this actually look like? Are there any depictions of this in film or other media?	4	AskHistorians
Non-western scientists/artists/etc who are considered highly influential today but weren't appreciated in their time?	4	AskHistorians
What Non-Eurocentric scientists/artists/etc are considered highly influential today but weren't appreciated in their time?	4	AskHistorians
What was McClellan/the Pinkertons/etc. response when asked how it was possible for the Confederacy to field the highly inflated number of soldiers they claimed to be in the field?	3	AskHistorians
Is the life cycle of any human pathogen dependent on the death of its host?	1	askscience