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Sunday Digest | Interesting & Overlooked Posts | December 04, 2017–December 10, 2017 (self.AskHistorians)

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Meta[META AF] AskHistorians Podcast 100 - AskHistorians Under the Hood (self.AskHistorians)

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In Season 2 of "The Crown", Queen Elizabeth II Implores her Mother to Stop Banging on the TV to Make it Work, Saying, "No Stop it! It's Rented." Was the Royal TV a Rental? (self.AskHistorians)

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Age(s) of majority: how and why did the seemingly arbritary ages of 16, 18, and 21 come to be the standard ages for various milestones and legal authority/rights? (self.AskHistorians)

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Given the Nazis' views on homosexuality, how did the openly gay Ernst Röhm become the leader of 3,000,000 Nazi "Brownshirts" in the Sturmabteilung? (self.AskHistorians)

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How did Hugh Hefner's first wife Mildred Williams die. It says she died at 34 just one year after their divorce, but can't find any information as to how? (self.AskHistorians)

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A hypothesis Ive encountered several times online, says that 5000to4000 yrs ago European men & women supposedly treated each other somewhat equally then Proto-Indo-European speakers took over & imposed patriarchy on to western civilization for the first time. Is there Any real validity to this idea? (self.AskHistorians)

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A considerable amount of ink has been spilled over precisely how hoplites fought. Has anyone ever looked at medieval warfare in similar depth? (self.AskHistorians)

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How similar was Anglo-Saxon paganism to the Norse paganism most people are more familiar with? (self.AskHistorians)

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We hear a lot about the names Timbuktu and Swahili city-states, but less about the cities themselves. How important were urban centers in medieval and early modern sub-Saharan Africa? (self.AskHistorians)

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Who was St Valentine, and how did he become associated with lovers? Cupid was originally the Roman god of erotic love and desire; how did he become co-opted as a cherubim in Christian art, and have other pagan figures been similarly incorporated? (self.AskHistorians)

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Why didn't the Crusaders destroy the Dome of the Rock or the Wailing Wall? (self.AskHistorians)

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In the Netflix series "Godless", we meet a family of Norwegians all the way out in the American frontier in the 1800s. What would make a family from so far away go to such a far distance, especially in such an unbuilt land? (self.AskHistorians)

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How important was von Braun and other former Reich scientists to the US space program? (self.AskHistorians)

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Why did no Abrahamic authority figures proof read the bible for consistency? (self.AskHistorians)

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Gamal Abdel Naseer called himself a Socialist and the Government nationalized vast swaths of private Companies in 1961 and embarked on a Five Year Plan. How "Socialist" was Egypt really during his reign? (self.AskHistorians)

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Out of the hundreds of Biblical names, why did "John" in particular become so widespread in so many countries? (self.AskHistorians)

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Was facial hair ever popular among American Indians? (self.AskHistorians)

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Was there any confusion and tension during the overlapping period where the Holy Roman Empire and the Byzantine Empire (Eastern Roman Empire) overlapped? as to who the true heir to the Roman empire was. (self.AskHistorians)

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Why did Italy end up with multiple feuding city states at a time(renaissance) when many other major European powers had national governments? (self.AskHistorians)

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Was the Trojan War in Greek mythology potentially based off real historical events? (self.AskHistorians)

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When Vikings drank ale or mead, does anyone know what percentage of alcohol it was (give or take)? (self.AskHistorians)

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What’s the origin of the magician pulling a rabbit from their hat? Why is that the the stereotypical magic trick? (self.AskHistorians)

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What did wars fought with single-shot breech-loading rifles look like? (self.AskHistorians)

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When did alimony become a thing? (self.AskHistorians)

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Did American slave owners breed slaves for particular characteristics, like cattle? (self.AskHistorians)

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After WW2, how long did it take for the name Adolf to fall out of use in Germany? (self.AskHistorians)

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