AskHistorians

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Was there a specific moment in history jetlag was “invented?”	3
Where did the trope of an otherwise “crazy” beggar having spiritual insight or teaching a lesson to someone of a higher social standing come from? Examples include the Ides of March dude, any homeless person in a Hallmark Christmas movie, or little Tim from A Christmas Carol	3
Why did bottled water become a very common thing in America? Is it related at all to the myth that tap water is bad for you?	3
Inthe trailer for a Minecraft update, "In the hall of the Goblin King" is used humorously to show the two characters repeatedly being killed by zombies. When did this song (and more generally classical music) being to be used to add a humorous undertone to montage scenes?	3
On a slave-run plantation in the American south there was an enslaved “butler” whose job afaik was to generally serve the white family. Did the social pecking order in the house (father, son, wife, daughter) díctate who “got” the butler’s time? If not, then what did?	3
How did the word “ok” come to be used in so many languages with practically the same meaning and pronunciation?	3
I’ve read somewhere the reason Lt. Uhura and other women on the original Star Trek wore short skirts wasuto signify in the future women’s sexuality and sex lives weren’t as restrictive as the 60s. Is this true, or was it the ol “sexy sells” at play?	3
I recall reading about a beauty parlor that gave “beauty classes” to Jewish women to teach them to appear “Aryan.” Was this a widespread phenomenon? What other ways did people helps Jews and other slated for death to pass appearance-wise?	3
How did the Holocaust come to be publicly commemorated mainly through individual first-hand accounts rather than synthesized narratives?	3
Did giving mixtape as a show of romance evolve out of an earlier music-related practice?	3

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