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What happened to all the "perpetual mass" endowments from the Late Middle Ages? Are people still praying for those souls? If not, when did they stop?

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Ethiopia stayed independent during the 19th-20th C European colonization of Africa. What enabled it to stay autonomous?

90 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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How did women go from being fairly prominent in the early Christian groups to quite subordinate by the Middle Ages? When did this happen?

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Was long-term imprisonment ever invented as punishment independently of European influence?

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The Gospel of John talks about Jesus having a "seamless robe". From a historical perspective, what is this and why include this detail?

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Did Europeans invent long-term imprisonment as a form of punishment, or was it invented elsewhere as well?

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How accurate is the acclaimed recent novel Hild?

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What was the U.S. public's reaction to the AT&T "You Will" series of futuristic-technology ads in 1993 & 1994?

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How are animals able to encode seemingly complex instinct behaviors into DNA?

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Why do we still make (many) hormone medications out of processed human body fluids, rather than using recombinant or other technology?

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What happened to all the "perpetual mass" endowments from the Late Middle Ages? Are people still praying for those souls? If not, when did they stop?	1291	AskHistorians
Ethiopia stayed independent during the 19th-20th C European colonization of Africa. What enabled it to stay autonomous?	90	AskHistorians
How did women go from being fairly prominent in the early Christian groups to quite subordinate by the Middle Ages? When did this happen?	46	AskHistorians
Was long-term imprisonment ever invented as punishment independently of European influence?	23	AskHistorians
The Gospel of John talks about Jesus having a "seamless robe". From a historical perspective, what is this and why include this detail?	19	AskHistorians
Did Europeans invent long-term imprisonment as a form of punishment, or was it invented elsewhere as well?	17	AskHistorians
How accurate is the acclaimed recent novel Hild?	7	AskHistorians
What was the U.S. public's reaction to the AT&T "You Will" series of futuristic-technology ads in 1993 & 1994?	2	AskHistorians
How are animals able to encode seemingly complex instinct behaviors into DNA?	2	askscience
Why do we still make (many) hormone medications out of processed human body fluids, rather than using recombinant or other technology?	1	askscience