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"He got off Scott free". Who's Scott, what did he do, and why was he let go without punishment?

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During the Middle Ages, would people living in the city of Rome call the Byzantine Empire "Rome" or people living in the Byzantine Empire as "Romans"?

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How would high European society have dealt with spills of wine onto really expensive sofas or upholstery between, say, 1500-1875?

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From a historical perspective we think of "riches" to mean gold & silver. Did all advanced societies value these metals? Was the drive to acquire them developed separately or did it spread as trade became global?

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Where were the first test ICBM's fired off to? How accurate were they?

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What effect, if any, did Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope have on the first Quebec separatist referendum in 1980? Or vice versa?

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When did the Latin names for months leach their way into Germanic (and other European) peoples' languages?

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How quickly did knowledge of Columbus' discovery of the New World travel across the Old World?

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Were the direct ancestors of the English language ever written in an alphabet other than Latin? If so, when and why did this change occur?

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Title	Upvotes	Subreddit	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
"He got off Scott free". Who's Scott, what did he do, and why was he let go without punishment?	231	AskHistorians
During the Middle Ages, would people living in the city of Rome call the Byzantine Empire "Rome" or people living in the Byzantine Empire as "Romans"?	200	AskHistorians
How would high European society have dealt with spills of wine onto really expensive sofas or upholstery between, say, 1500-1875?	47	AskHistorians
From a historical perspective we think of "riches" to mean gold & silver. Did all advanced societies value these metals? Was the drive to acquire them developed separately or did it spread as trade became global?	21	AskHistorians
Where were the first test ICBM's fired off to? How accurate were they?	14	AskHistorians
What effect, if any, did Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope have on the first Quebec separatist referendum in 1980? Or vice versa?	4	AskHistorians
When did the Latin names for months leach their way into Germanic (and other European) peoples' languages?	4	AskHistorians
How quickly did knowledge of Columbus' discovery of the New World travel across the Old World?	4	AskHistorians
Were the direct ancestors of the English language ever written in an alphabet other than Latin? If so, when and why did this change occur?	3	AskHistorians