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Why were computers and other office equipment beige back in the 1980s-90s?

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Why did people continue to emigrate to the United States during the Civil War?

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Why did the Persians under Xerxes build a canal across Mount Athos rather than sail around it?

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While the Hanover monarchs ruled Great Britain, was any effort made by the governments of Great Britain and of Hanover to try to integrate the two kingdoms?

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Why isn't the Greek alphabet more widely used by other languages?

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Jousting: did competitors who faced high-ranking noblemen really tend to forfeit or fail to try in earnest, out of concern about injuring or showing up their social betters?

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The butler did it...

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Historian consensus about the diplomatic run-up to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait

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Why are physicians and dentists considered two separate professions? At what point did surgeons and psychiatrists begin to be considered physicians rather than separate professions?

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When paleontologists find an incomplete skeleton (such as a single bone), how do they determine whether what they have is a new species as opposed to being something within the normal range of variation of a known species?

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Title	Upvotes	Subreddit	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
Why were computers and other office equipment beige back in the 1980s-90s?	24	AskHistorians
Why did people continue to emigrate to the United States during the Civil War?	24	AskHistorians
Why did the Persians under Xerxes build a canal across Mount Athos rather than sail around it?	23	AskHistorians
While the Hanover monarchs ruled Great Britain, was any effort made by the governments of Great Britain and of Hanover to try to integrate the two kingdoms?	21	AskHistorians
Why isn't the Greek alphabet more widely used by other languages?	21	AskHistorians
Jousting: did competitors who faced high-ranking noblemen really tend to forfeit or fail to try in earnest, out of concern about injuring or showing up their social betters?	21	AskHistorians
The butler did it...	20	AskHistorians
Historian consensus about the diplomatic run-up to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait	20	AskHistorians
Why are physicians and dentists considered two separate professions? At what point did surgeons and psychiatrists begin to be considered physicians rather than separate professions?	20	AskHistorians
When paleontologists find an incomplete skeleton (such as a single bone), how do they determine whether what they have is a new species as opposed to being something within the normal range of variation of a known species?	20	askscience