/u/skourby's posts in /r/askhistorians
Two years ago, the official Swedish Twitter account said that Swedish meatballs originated from a recipe Charles XII brought back from Turkey. It later backtracked on this claim, saying the origin was really far more complex, but what was this recipe and how similar was it to today's dish?
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Have there always been male homosexuals who possessed the stereotypical high-pitched voice, or is this a recent phenomenon? If it’s the latter, when did it emerge?
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After his troops mutinied at the Hyphasis River to turn back, Alexander the Great ordered the construction of "twelve altars, as high as the biggest towers and broader even than towers would be." Did these structures actually exist? If so, what did they look like?
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Why did the Netherlands maintain a monarchical government after the end of French domination under Louis Bonaparte? Why didn't they just go back to their old republican system?
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The period between de Gaulle's two positions as the leader of the Fourth and Fifth Republic from 1948 to 1957 is termed as his "crossing of the desert". What metaphorical desert was he crossing?
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Why is Waterloo by far Napoleon’s most famous battle? The only thing that seems special about it is that it was his last.
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