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Why do Americans often appear to have such a strange/fanatical relationship with their historic constitution compared with other countries?

248 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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Did the birth of the printing press, and the ability to cheaply mass produce publications lead to similar problems with ‘fake news’ and misinformation as we now have with the internet and particularly social media?

19 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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How truly original/radical were the ideas of Jesus and the early church viewed at the time? How much did they borrow from other established philosophies?

3 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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Was the belief in the theory of racial hierarchy that seemed prevalent in the 18/19th centuries cynically ‘invented’ to help justify/rationalise the slave trade?

2 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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Why did so many more UK soldiers die in WWI compared to WWII?

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Why does it seem to be a common assertion that based on the number of planets/size of the universe there must be alien life?

1 upvotes • r/askscience

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Why does it seem to be a common assertion that based just on the number of planets/size of the universe there must be alien life?

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What is the lowest mass an object can be and still influence time to a measurable degree?

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Why do Americans often appear to have such a strange/fanatical relationship with their historic constitution compared with other countries?	248	AskHistorians
Did the birth of the printing press, and the ability to cheaply mass produce publications lead to similar problems with ‘fake news’ and misinformation as we now have with the internet and particularly social media?	19	AskHistorians
How truly original/radical were the ideas of Jesus and the early church viewed at the time? How much did they borrow from other established philosophies?	3	AskHistorians
Was the belief in the theory of racial hierarchy that seemed prevalent in the 18/19th centuries cynically ‘invented’ to help justify/rationalise the slave trade?	2	AskHistorians
Why did so many more UK soldiers die in WWI compared to WWII?	2	AskHistorians
Why does it seem to be a common assertion that based on the number of planets/size of the universe there must be alien life?	1	askscience
Why does it seem to be a common assertion that based just on the number of planets/size of the universe there must be alien life?	1	askscience
What is the lowest mass an object can be and still influence time to a measurable degree?	1	askscience