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Sunday Digest | Interesting & Overlooked Posts | July 16, 2023 (self.AskHistorians)
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Short Answers to Simple Questions | July 12, 2023 (self.AskHistorians)
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Has a country ever been on the road to fascism and a concerted effort pulled it back from the brink? (self.AskHistorians)
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Since borders in the ancient world were more fluid than now, was it common for communities on the outskirts of a civilization to visited by tax collector's from multiple states? (self.AskHistorians)
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Prior to WWI and WWII, was the German language considered a "harsh, angry language" by Anglophones? Or was this a byproduct of propaganda? (self.AskHistorians)
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Are there any examples of WW1 veterans who overall spoke very positively of their time in “The Great War?” (self.AskHistorians)
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How did a project as insane as the CIA's human experimentation in MK-Ultra "brain warfare" managed to be approved and conducted for 20 years? (self.AskHistorians)
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What disease might this be in 1902? (self.AskHistorians)
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The spartan slaves, the helots, were regularly murdered by a secret police and rite of passage for young spartan men. Did any helot fight back and kill their attacker? (self.AskHistorians)
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Between the Milgram experiment in 1961 and the Stanford prison experiment in 1971, why was there such a strong interest in the social psychology of conformity and obedience in the 1960s? (self.AskHistorians)
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Why did French become an International language in the Early Modern period, rather then Spanish, English or even Dutch? (self.AskHistorians)
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Is Celtic culture even a thing or is it a construct and/or myth? (self.AskHistorians)
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Is there a historical record of humans coming into contact with radioactive/dangerous material before the "discovery" of radioactivity (or the concept thereof)? (self.AskHistorians)
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How similar or dissimilar was South Korea's and China's democracy movement after WW2 up to 1989? (self.AskHistorians)
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Were the answers written on the bottom of literacy tests, like George Wallace claimed on "Firing Line?" (self.AskHistorians)
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Why weren´t the Franks among those who migrated to Britannia the same way that the Jutes, Saxons, Frisians, Angles, Danes, and Norse in late antiquity and the Early Medieval Period were? (self.AskHistorians)
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Why are European vassal states so stable? (self.AskHistorians)
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How did sister cities take off, and has the paradiplomacy ever been of larger consequence? (self.AskHistorians)
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Who crafted the Terracotta Army and how did they live? (self.AskHistorians)
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How valuable was clothing in the (purported) time of Jesus? (self.AskHistorians)
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Why did Tolkien rebel against the Shakespearean concept of elves by depicting them as tall, slender and wise instead of small and silly? (self.AskHistorians)
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What was the population density of crusader towns and cities? (self.AskHistorians)
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Why did it take so long to add safety features to automobiles? The first mandatory seatbelt law was in 1970. People had been seeing horrific accidents for decades at that point. (self.AskHistorians)
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Was Theseus a real person, or based on real person(s)? (self.AskHistorians)
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