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https://preview.redd.it/baz1088ym7dh1.jpg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=57bbbba6e20c0aecf5b32ab740fa09e7876ce23e I’m Tom Hiddleston and I am taking a journey back in time in my new series ‘Pompeii: Out of Time with Tom Hiddleston’ on National Geographic. The ancient world h…
Every month in gardening subs someone posts wanting advice on growing their own food to reduce grocery bills, and everyone responds with pessimism, saying it's not practical for a beginner to grow a substantial amount of food on the average suburban lot, and that it's not a chea…
Help me settle a debate about the potential lethality of "tarring and feathering" in Colonial America. Because the science doesn't seem to match the records. I'm discussing (read: getting into an argument regarding) the "tarring and feathering" scene in the miniseries "John Adam…
For modern equestrians, there is a strong and lively debate on just how much a horse can safely carry on their back. As a general rule of thumb, equestrians nowadays tend to follow something called the 20% rule. Old cavalry manuals, posited that a horse can safely carry around 1…
Hi all – my name is Matt King. I am an associate professor of history at the University of South Florida, and my latest book is A History of Goblins, which was published by Palgrave Macmillan this May. It considers the history of these fascinating creatures (and their many deriv…
The Soviet Union never hosted or won the FIFA World Cup (or even reached the Final) in the USSR’s 70-year history (which coincided entirely with the existence of FIFA), despite hosting and dominating in the Olympics (including in Olympic football), despite having a far larger po…
I try not too ask this question too often because it tends to create a lot of work for the mods mass deleting anecdotal comments (sorry!) but I would really love to understand The Great Transatlantic Keyed Exit Divergence. Basically I straight up can't figure out why you would w…
Who actually coined the term 'Space'? I find it weird to think that there was a time when people looked at the sky and would call it something other than space. I assume that in different cultures it was called different things, but when did it become more universally known as '…
I mean, the Muslim world, the Malinese, the Indian kingdoms, the Siam, the Malay, the Chinese, the Japanese. They all eventually got word about vast swats of land, whole empires of people living across the ocean. What did their scholars and political elite think about that? Did…
I have an ancestor who died under the title's circumstances and was curious if this was an antiquated term. There was a great deal of stress and generational trauma in his life, so it seems entirely plausible that he died from exhaustion, but was curious if there was any precede…
Something I read online described Jonestown as "one of the most significant events in modern Guyanese history" and while it's certainly the only event in modern Guyanese history that *I'm* aware of. how much did it really matter to Guyana? Were there major diplomatic issues with…
I’m 16f and am a Christian. People can be so rude about being a Christian on this site.. it’s weird. I’m also waiting until marriage, and people seem to get mad about people making this decision for themselves which is strange. I’ve never told anyone that they have to live how I…
So, the other day we were leaving the church at about 10:30 at night after a service and there were some young guys drinking and smoking in the parking lot. One of our volunteers went to speak with them and pray for them, and they werent interested so he left and just started pr…
As I was praying just a few minutes ago, thanking the Lord for bringing me back to Him, to a place of connection with Him and just to a state of doing better than I have been. I heard this word in my mind. It sounded like “Teshuda”. I finished my sentence that I was praying and…
To my understanding, basically everything we know about Carthage comes from other cultures, mostly the Greeks and Romans. Why do we have so little from the Carthaginians themselves? We know they produced texts, and right next door is Egypt, where we can find plenty of artifacts…
I taught in Kazakhstan for three years. They regularly have traditional clothing days where the students come into school wearing traditional clothing and jewellery. It's very cute. Recently one of my older pupils who works as a fashion designer told me that traditional Kazakh c…
I have seen many on the conservative side claim that the US is a country that was founded as a Christian nation. For me this sounds like revisionism of history. The US was founded on liberal ideals with a clear separation of church and state. If anything, at the time, the newly…
Let me start by confessing that I don't know anything about this, except that I think it was on its way out (but still kinda present) when I was a kid. To be honest, not even sure it actually was a sexist trope, just vaguely feel like I've heard that, plus the jokes I heard as a…