/u/racedogg2's posts in /r/askhistorians
When and why did it become commonplace to put a person's birth year and death year in parentheses after their name in formal writing, i.e. Benito Mussolini (1883-1945)?
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I am interested in the history of languages. Why does English have no gendered nouns like so many other languages?
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Have we made any major discoveries in the last 20 years or so that radically changed our view of some part of history?
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Is there a civilization and time in history where you could take a member of that civilization in that time, drop him 100 years in the future in the same location, and he'd think he had traveled to the past?
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If I went back 400-500 years ago to England, would their accent sound more like British today or more like American today? In which county did the accent split actually occur?
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Were composers like Beethoven, Mozart, Handel, etc. famous in their own times? Or did they become famous later after their deaths?
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Is there a person that you could argue to be the most important person in history, that most people have never heard of?
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