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Why has incest become so strongly associated (at least in pop culture) with hicks/hillbillies/rednecks?

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How have the requirements, both written and unwritten, for being commissioned as an officer in the American military evolved over the course of its history?

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Wikipedia states that when Stalin died, Enver Hoxha "assembled the entire population in the capital's largest square featuring a statue of Stalin" and made them recite a 2000 word oath. It's not clear what "entire population" refers to. Was it of the entire country? Or just of the capital?

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How did Finland, Hungary and Estonia come to adopt Finno-Uralic languages when they are surrounded by Indo-European speakers?

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What languages would members of the House of Romanov have been fluent in around the time of WWI? Would many of them have spoken English?

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When did the use of the "n-word" by an elected official at the state or federal level become unacceptable?

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In "American Gangster", a biopic of Frank Lucas, there is a scene where Lucas is in Indochina to meet with a heroin supplier. When he gets to the poppy fields, his guide says that "this area is locked down by the Kuomintang, Chiang Kai-Shek's defeated army." Is this Hollywood or fiction?

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What have been the requirements for being commissioned as an officer in the U.S. military over the past two and a half centuries? How have they changed over the years?

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Book recommendations: history of the US Congress?

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What do historians think about Henry Kissinger's book "Diplomacy"?

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Why has incest become so strongly associated (at least in pop culture) with hicks/hillbillies/rednecks?	202	AskHistorians
How have the requirements, both written and unwritten, for being commissioned as an officer in the American military evolved over the course of its history?	77	AskHistorians
Wikipedia states that when Stalin died, Enver Hoxha "assembled the entire population in the capital's largest square featuring a statue of Stalin" and made them recite a 2000 word oath. It's not clear what "entire population" refers to. Was it of the entire country? Or just of the capital?	37	AskHistorians
How did Finland, Hungary and Estonia come to adopt Finno-Uralic languages when they are surrounded by Indo-European speakers?	35	AskHistorians
What languages would members of the House of Romanov have been fluent in around the time of WWI? Would many of them have spoken English?	20	AskHistorians
When did the use of the "n-word" by an elected official at the state or federal level become unacceptable?	15	AskHistorians
In "American Gangster", a biopic of Frank Lucas, there is a scene where Lucas is in Indochina to meet with a heroin supplier. When he gets to the poppy fields, his guide says that "this area is locked down by the Kuomintang, Chiang Kai-Shek's defeated army." Is this Hollywood or fiction?	10	AskHistorians
What have been the requirements for being commissioned as an officer in the U.S. military over the past two and a half centuries? How have they changed over the years?	9	AskHistorians
Book recommendations: history of the US Congress?	8	AskHistorians
What do historians think about Henry Kissinger's book "Diplomacy"?	8	AskHistorians