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The original was posted on /r/askhistorians by /u/PartyJob9076 on 2023-09-08 03:11:41+00:00.

I remember learning about her in high school and occasionally hear about her in pop culture. I don’t mean to down play a horrific murder, but it kinda seems like a drop in the bucket of US history. Am I missing why her case justifies a page in a high school history textbook?

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The original was posted on /r/askhistorians by /u/Riley31415 on 2023-09-08 02:58:45+00:00.

I feel like in most old movies from the 40s and 50s (e.g., On the Waterfront) depict unions as corrupted by organized crime. Was this a reality and, if so, what did that control look like? Was this depiction a product of anticommunist sentiment?

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The original was posted on /r/askhistorians by /u/Lexicorint on 2023-09-08 02:43:08+00:00.

As the title says, what would be THE sport the ancient Roman would, at the very least, be excited to get updates on the next morning?

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The original was posted on /r/askhistorians by /u/volsh1979 on 2023-09-08 02:36:14+00:00.

Going down a rabbit hole this morning, which started with Musk's obvious anti-semitism and somehow jumped to the FIRE org wiki, where I saw that they made a film about Mighty Ira Glasser, ex-director of ACLU. In an interview with times of israel, Ira mentions a TV debate with William F. Buckley, whose name is familiar, as I lived in Boston for a long time, but wikipedia page is mostly medals awarded by the CIA. I see he was very active in the 60s and 70s before getting deheaded by hezbullah or whtaever.) In 72 he was in Cambodia, my current home country. Really currious about his mission, as I firmly believe that the destabilization of this country and the civil war and Pol Pot were all planned by the CIA, not to mention the bombing campaign. I might be wrong. Do you guys have some more info on this particular character, William F. Buckley?

edit: the debate might have been with WFB Jr., the jr. was omitted in the interview i read.

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The original was posted on /r/askhistorians by /u/aLone_gunman on 2023-09-08 02:28:49+00:00.

Like the title says I'm wondering if there are any records on who voted for who when, particularly from the election of Leopold II onwards since the two states were at odds. I might not have a fantastic understanding of how the elections so any info would be great!

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The original was posted on /r/askhistorians by /u/BackgroundDisaster11 on 2023-09-08 02:28:12+00:00.

Original Title: In Democracy in America, Tocqueville discusses how in 19th century America, there is "no class exists that honors intellectual work and in which the penchant for intellectual pleasures is handed down with affluence and hereditary leisure." Why was this the case, and what changed?

America seemed to have an intellectual-gap in the early 19th century. The 18th century had Jefferson, Hamilton, Frank, etc while the more notable American-bred academics seem to only come about later in the 19th or early 20th (Alfred Russell Wallace, Thorstein Veblen, JS Mill, and John Dewey come to mind). Why did the most prominent American academics seem to come about in the late 19th century (decades after Democracy in America was published in the 1930s).

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The original was posted on /r/askhistorians by /u/CombinationPrudent28 on 2023-09-08 01:57:17+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/askhistorians by /u/bionku on 2023-09-08 01:54:34+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/askhistorians by /u/tbdunn13 on 2023-09-08 01:45:32+00:00.

Band-Aid was founded in 1921, but I have to imagine that at some point throughout human history, someone grabbed a sticky piece of paper or leather and put it over a wound. I couldn't find any records about any kind of ancient band-aid precursor, but it has to have happened, right?

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The original was posted on /r/askhistorians by /u/charge_your_phone on 2023-09-08 01:09:05+00:00.

Violence was clearly significantly more prevalent historically than it is today. Did this violence exist among everyday people like you and I, or is this seemingly high prevalence attributable to the simple fact that most popular/ common historical records relate to rulers and leaders, not everyday people.

Historical accounts seems to consistently highlight how prevalent and common place serious violence was. For example, I am reading an article about the history of Japanese Shoguns, and reading this article would make you think that every third person back in these times was beheaded or violently killed.

I understand being a military sort of complex, the Shogun system would be more prone to violence, but it seems that even among other systems and geographic places, serious violence was so common among ruling parties.

It seems that the human capacity to commit violence like that back in the day was high. So many people seemed capable of doing such things. It would seem rare today to find people capable, internally, of committing these acts. Yet back then it seemed like every man and his dog could behead someone without blinking an eye.

My question is, did this extreme prevalence of violence (by todays standards) extend to everyday people like you and I? Or does it just seem this way because most popular historical accounts relate to rulers and leaders. Were ordinary members of society more capable of violence than they are today, or was it really just ruling parties committing these acts, and everyday people would have been just as averse to such things as modern humans are today?

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The original was posted on /r/askhistorians by /u/SublunarySphere on 2023-09-08 00:58:35+00:00.

Perhaps more specifically: were there railroad employees (engineers or operators maybe?) that made very good "professional class" salaries?

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The original was posted on /r/askhistorians by /u/com2420 on 2023-09-08 00:58:30+00:00.

Original Title: I learned that "Hibachi" were actually heating devices used by Japanese residents in their homes. It was a fireproof vessel (bowl or jar) that burned charcoal for heat. How was this possible considering the dangers of carbon monoxide poisoning?

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The original was posted on /r/askhistorians by /u/YxesWfsn on 2023-09-07 23:59:44+00:00.

I understand the step-child part but why 'red headed'.

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The original was posted on /r/askhistorians by /u/swiminthroolife on 2023-09-07 23:55:58+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/askhistorians by /u/swiminthroolife on 2023-09-07 23:53:46+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/askhistorians by /u/GardenaGeat on 2023-09-07 23:33:42+00:00.

Since the Romans began to leave modern day England back in the 400s AD, Germanic tribes (mostly from modern day Denmark and northern Germany) such as the Saxons, Angles, and Jutes invaded England, conquering and assimilating with the Celtic Britons of the time.

My question is, what became of these original tribes? Surely not all of them traveled across the sea over to England? I would suspect there were their own settlements that they retained while the other parts of the tribe invaded England. It also makes me wonder what cultural and language related differences may have occurred during the same time that their were Saxons in modern day England and Saxons in modern day Denmark. Did the Saxons who remained in Denmark retain their pagan ways and the Saxons who went to England became christianized? Did the Saxons who remained in Denmark take on a new name? Same with the Angles and Jutes.

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The original was posted on /r/askhistorians by /u/holomorphic_chipotle on 2023-09-07 23:24:33+00:00.

Popular history is full of maps showing the different "peoples" of the world and their distribution around the globe. Though this is even more common in the racist corners of the internet, I am surprised how even among historians language is so often seen as a stand-in for ethnicity, e.g. the speakers of Mande languages are the Mandé people, instead of simply referring to Mandé-speakers. More than half of the world's population is bilingual and learning a foreign language is not impossible, so how come we ended up asuming that having a common language implies a common origin? I mean, was there ever a polity that included the ancestors of Southern Germans, Northern Germans, and Scandinavians?

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The original was posted on /r/askhistorians by /u/Silent-Count-9332 on 2023-09-07 23:18:33+00:00.

I don't quite remember where i read this, but i am pretty sure that i read once of Napoleon actually having read Horatio Nelson's biography, can anyone provide me with details about this and if it's true or false?!

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The original was posted on /r/askhistorians by /u/rainbirdmelody on 2023-09-07 22:12:56+00:00.

I'm looking for YouTube videos or perhaps a book that explains how Christianity spread from the middle East to Europe. I am looking for an historical source and not a religious angle.

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The original was posted on /r/askhistorians by /u/KevTravels on 2023-09-07 21:40:00+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/askhistorians by /u/poopeyInMyMouth on 2023-09-07 21:38:47+00:00.

Can you point me in the direction of some good books on the topic as well. Stuff written by people who study the field.

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The original was posted on /r/askhistorians by /u/Lord_Sir_Harry_King on 2023-09-07 21:33:41+00:00.

I have seen it repeated in Ukrainian circles and online but I have read Rudenko's opening and closing positions and have found nothing of the sort.

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The original was posted on /r/askhistorians by /u/IOwnStocksInMossad on 2023-09-07 21:28:19+00:00.

Was it the average level for the rest of Europe or notably higher or less so ?

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The original was posted on /r/askhistorians by /u/embassyrow on 2023-09-07 22:18:50+00:00.

According to Google Ngram, use of the word "fuck" disappeared almost completely starting early in the 1800s up until soon after 1950? Why?

For comparison, the chart above also shows use of "sex" to demonstrate that Ngram isn't just missing data for that time period.

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The original was posted on /r/askhistorians by /u/Spozieracz on 2023-09-07 22:07:51+00:00.

Would China or Cipangu be considered part of India for him? How do we know for sure what this term referred to? I'm trying to understand how he could have thought that by reaching the east coast of Asia he would end up in India.