askhistorians

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Why are master bedrooms called master bedrooms? Is it a holdover from the slave era?	0
What is the history of college pranks? Have colleges always been hubs of pranks and young adult shenanigans? Why or why not?	0
Why do so many fantasy, YA, and romance books feature stock-photo covers? Why these specific genres?	0
What were the “scientific” justifications behind not allowing/wanting people of different races to have kids? What medical issues would these mixed children supposedly have? I’m not partial to any specific country or tile period.	0
Why is the Holocaust talked about on such a personal level? I of course agree it should be taught this way, but why would an antisemitic world think so too? Is it because there were survivors of this atrocity who made sure people knew their stories?	0
Pilots say Alpha Charli Tango etc because of how choppy air-to-ground communication sounds. Did NASA use this system with astronauts in space? Why it why not?	0
I've always been taught that the Catholic Church silences Galileo because it was afraid his ideas were against scripture. Did the Catholic Church silence Galileo because he argued that his Heliocentric model went against scripture, or because the Catholic Church was against "science?" 📷	0
Since the dawn of Jews, there have been casual and violent anti-Semitism. During the later 1800s in London, what radical steps or thoughts were taken in reference to how Jews should be treated? What specific stereotypes or trains of thought would an activist have fought against?	0
Bill and Ted’s EA (1989) has Freud reads Ted’s mind during a public therapy session. In Star Trek TNG (1987-1994), Counsellor Troi is half-alien and able to sense people’s emotions. Why did people think therapists could read minds in the 80s? Did they think that before?	0
How long have people discussed how they got to x place, what roads they took, why that way is always stopped up with traffic but if you turn left before Lagler it’ll shave 10 minutes off your way?	0

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