Comment by Gankom on 26/01/2025 at 15:54 UTC

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Comment by Gankom at 26/01/2025 at 16:22 UTC

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/u/Rittermeister answered Why were medieval armies so small compared to those of antiquity?

/u/RonPossible wrote about Why did the Japanese suffer far more deaths than the Americans during the Pacific theatre?

Comment by Gankom at 26/01/2025 at 15:56 UTC

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/u/Bodark43 answered Wikipedia is suggesting John Henry, the man from American folklore who died from exhaustion in a contest against a machine, might have been a real person and didn't die from exhaustion but scoliosis. How true is this?

Did any Native American groups ever try to reverse engineer or modify European/American firearms? Specifically in the Old West?

Was Sel de devoir still a part of the gabelle during the onset of the french revolution?

Why is Calvin Coolidge generally ranked in the lower half of US presidents by presidential historians? What about his actions is office left a mediocre or negative legacy?

Comment by Gankom at 26/01/2025 at 15:55 UTC

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Comment by Gankom at 26/01/2025 at 16:26 UTC

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/u/thebigbosshimself has a great post on Did Haile Selassie ban the Oromo language?

/u/Noble_Devil_Boruta answered Is it true that the adage "90% of body heat is lost through your head" is based on a flawed US Army study where they clothed participants in winter gear but didn't give them hats?

Comment by Gankom at 26/01/2025 at 16:26 UTC

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Comment by Gankom at 26/01/2025 at 15:54 UTC

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Comment by Gankom at 26/01/2025 at 16:23 UTC

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/u/Still_Yam9108 wrote about Why Rome?

/u/StoicEeyore answered When did humans start keeping fish as pets?

Comment by Gankom at 26/01/2025 at 16:13 UTC

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/u/fatbuddha66 wrote about How were Kazakh people treated in the USSR?

/u/firedrops answered What impact did the Haitian Revolution have on the global abolitionist movement?

Comment by Gankom at 26/01/2025 at 16:17 UTC

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/u/LastKnightOfMalta wrote about What was Richard Nixon's reputation and activities outside of watergate?

/u/Lawarch answered In 1809 Italians were 29% of the Dalmatian population, in 1865 they were 12.5% and by 1910 they barely were a minority with only 2.7% being Italian, how and why did this rapid decline happen? Was it a natural shift or was it something sponsored by the Austrian monarchy?

Comment by Gankom at 26/01/2025 at 16:25 UTC

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/u/Lord0fHats did Is shogun the tv show close to what Japan was like in early 18th century. And did they really kill themselves over dishonor?

/u/koliano tackled If we have natural mirrors (water, ice, etc.) and manufactured mirrors are thousands of years old, why did self portraits in art only really start showing up ~~500 - 600 years ago?

Comment by Gankom at 26/01/2025 at 16:25 UTC

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Comment by Gankom at 26/01/2025 at 15:56 UTC

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/u/BebopAU wrote about When did the use of black and white cameras really stop being used for primary video and photography? I've seen photos and videos from the 80s and 90s using them.

/u/Big-Oof-Bob answered In the US Civil War, why is their a sentiment among the Southerners that the 'best' or the 'flower' of the South was taken in the war?

Comment by Gankom at 26/01/2025 at 16:22 UTC

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/u/secessionisillegal answered What was the Confederate position on secession within the Confederacy?

/u/ShadowsofUtopia wrote about Media about the Cambodian genocide depicts the average person being forced to work in rice fields under the Khmer Rouge. But these same people were starving to death. What happened to all of the rice?

Comment by Gankom at 26/01/2025 at 16:16 UTC

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/u/JudgmentKey7282 answered Theres a sculpture on the moon with multiple names of fallen astronauts and cosmonauts that was left in the year 1970. Robert Lawrence, the first black astronaut, died in 1967. Why wasnt he included?

/u/JustaBitBrit wrote about Why dont we ever hear about years like 500-1300 AD?

Comment by Gankom at 26/01/2025 at 16:18 UTC

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/u/lonewanderer727 answered Why did Denmark only last six hours against Germany?

Julius Caesar probably had epilepsy, what did he think about this?

How did WWII-era German MEFO bills work?

Comment by Gankom at 26/01/2025 at 16:21 UTC

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/u/qumrun60 wrote about I'm a Roman commoner of the 5th century. How do I distinguish a Nicean Christian from an Arian?

Ante-Nicene Orthodoxcoercion?

Comment by Gankom at 26/01/2025 at 16:24 UTC

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/u/veryhappyhugs answered At what point did Christian countries surpass Islamic countries in the improvment of women's rights?

/u/warneagle wrote about What advice would you give to a PhD candidate or aspiring undergrad who wants to specialize in the history of fascism?

Comment by Gankom at 26/01/2025 at 16:15 UTC

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/u/handsomeboh answered Why Were Chinese Lands Given to Japan Rather than China (post-WWI)?

Did Joseon era Korea have royal council meetings with dozens of people?

Comment by Gankom at 26/01/2025 at 16:14 UTC

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/u/gerardmenfin answered What is the history of the black and white swirl's association with hypnosis, and was it (the swirl or the hypnosis) ever used in 'legitimate' psychiatry?

What did "splitting the atom" mean to the public prior to the end of WW2?

How did the newspapers in Paris report on Napoleon's return after being exiled to Corsica?

There is a famous painting called "The keel-hauling of the ship's surgeon of Admiral Jan van Nes." Why was he keel-hauled?

What's the source for the story of the boy in the dress during the Battle of Vienna (1683)?

"What manner o' thing is your crocodile?" What would somebody in the cheap seats at the Globe Theatre have known about the fauna of far-off places like Egypt?

Did Europeans in the 1600-1700s know that the tomato was a member of the nightshade family?

In the movie "Rose Island" there's a German guy called Neuman who lost his German citizenship when he defected the nazi army. Did this really happen? Why weren't such solders rewarded by the allies?

Were non-French civilians actively persecuted in Nazi-occupied France?

Comment by Gankom at 26/01/2025 at 15:58 UTC

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/u/Davincier answered Media about the Cambodian genocide depicts the average person being forced to work in rice fields under the Khmer Rouge. But these same people were starving to death. What happened to all of the rice?

/u/DBHT14 wrote about Why was "defeat in detail" so advantageous in Napoleonic warfare?

Comment by Gankom at 26/01/2025 at 15:58 UTC

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/u/DBHT14 wrote about Could Napoleon's Marshals Potentially Have Founded Their Own Dynasties?

/u/DerpAnarchist answered Why was the Japanese invasion of Korea in the 1590s so brutal?

Comment by Gankom at 26/01/2025 at 15:55 UTC

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/u/aquatermain wrote about Found this map supposedly showing ethnicities in the 19th century. How accurate do you think this is? Any changes that should be made to make it more accurate?

/u/Aristeo812 answered Lenin quotes Marx as saying "The oppressed are allowed to decide who shall repress them" but did Marx really say that?

Comment by Gankom at 26/01/2025 at 15:54 UTC

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/u/indyobserver answered Why Were Chinese Lands Given to Japan Rather than China (post-WWI)?

President John Adams' daughter died of breast cancer. How did doctors diagnose cancer back in those days?

What was the actual debate surrounding Term Limits during and after FDRs four terms?

Comment by Gankom at 26/01/2025 at 16:20 UTC

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/u/PhiloSpo answered What do we actually mean when we say that Roman law influenced modern legal systems?

/u/phistomefel_smeik wrote about Do people in Medieval England actually have guards screaming what hour it was, like in Disney's Robin Hood?