/u/moby323's posts
Why is Leo Tolstoy dressed this way in 1897? (this photo was colorized later). Why is he essentially wearing peasant garb, when at this time in his life he was wealthy and ran in to very top aristocratic circles?
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In the time when maps were still rare enough that most people had ever seen one, how much did the average peasant know about the geography of the surrounding world?(their province, island, nation or continent).
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Why does jerking a table cloth quickly from a table not disturb the plates but if you do it slow they all come off? Shouldn't there be the same amount of friction whether you pull it fast or slow?
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Why didn't the current royal house of England simply give Richard III a horse, and inherit the kingdom that way, rather than fight costly wars?
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[WP] We decipher whale calls, make a shocking discovery: They are intelligent as us and can communicate. They simply chose not to. We ask, “Why did you hide your intelligence from us?” - “We knew you would view intelligent life as a threat and would destroy us. Just as you did the woolly mammoths.”
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When Elvis did his whole Vegas comeback thing, how popular was his music? We're his original fans sold on it, or was it a Vegas circus act?
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To what extent, do you personally beleive, that we inflate or deflate the historical importance of epochs based on the volume of writing? Do we inflate Rome, deflate the Mongols because of the amount of the historical writings?
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When the Model-T came out and the automotive boom happened,how did the people who bought those cars learn to drive a car and operate manual transmission?
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