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Is it true that 16th-century German longsword fighters were not allowed to use thrusts to kill?

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What's the significance of this narrow stretch of land in China?

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What did medieval (High and Late Middle Ages) Europeans who traveled to Asia think of it?

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Is Christmas really a pagan holiday? Did the Christians steal it from the pagans?

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Is it proper/correct to use the term "barbarian" to describe certain groups of people?

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In one of my professor's lectures, he mentioned that the Krogans tried to surrender before the Turians deployed the genophage. Is this true?

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Is it true that swords were generally secondary to polearms as battlefield weapons for most of history?

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In Gene Luen Yang's graphic novel "Boxers" (set in the Boxer Rebellion), a character makes some pretty outlandish claims about Westerners, saying that they grind up people's eyeballs for medicine and drink goblets of menstrual blood. Were there people in China who actually believed things like this?

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How did the image of the "decadent" and "morally corrupt" Rome become so popular?

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Is there anything problematic with claiming that Easter/Christmas/whatever Christian holiday "are really" pagan traditions?

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Title	Upvotes	Subreddit	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
Is it true that 16th-century German longsword fighters were not allowed to use thrusts to kill?	425	AskHistorians
What's the significance of this narrow stretch of land in China?	63	AskHistorians
What did medieval (High and Late Middle Ages) Europeans who traveled to Asia think of it?	48	AskHistorians
Is Christmas really a pagan holiday? Did the Christians steal it from the pagans?	48	AskHistorians
Is it proper/correct to use the term "barbarian" to describe certain groups of people?	39	AskHistorians
In one of my professor's lectures, he mentioned that the Krogans tried to surrender before the Turians deployed the genophage. Is this true?	22	AskHistorians
Is it true that swords were generally secondary to polearms as battlefield weapons for most of history?	15	AskHistorians
In Gene Luen Yang's graphic novel "Boxers" (set in the Boxer Rebellion), a character makes some pretty outlandish claims about Westerners, saying that they grind up people's eyeballs for medicine and drink goblets of menstrual blood. Were there people in China who actually believed things like this?	12	AskHistorians
How did the image of the "decadent" and "morally corrupt" Rome become so popular?	11	AskHistorians
Is there anything problematic with claiming that Easter/Christmas/whatever Christian holiday "are really" pagan traditions?	7	AskHistorians