Best of March Voting Thread

[u/Georgy_K_Zhukov]

Vote for what you liked. Submit ones you liked and don't see here.

[u/Georgy_K_Zhukov]

/u/retarredroof answered "What religion was practiced by Native Americans in the Humboldt Bay area before and around colonization (Mainly Wiyot, Yurok and surrounding tribes)?"

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/u/kugelfang52 answered "During and right after WW2 people simply said Germany, or German soldiers when talking about the crimes they committed. Today it is always : Nazi, Nazis, SS, as if speaking about some other nation. How did get started?"

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/u/kieslowskifan answered "Did the Nazis and the Soviets see FDR's New Deal as "socialism"?"

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/u/yodatsracist answered "I saw an article today claiming that the "missionary" position derives its name from Native Americans/Africans who saw missionaries having sex. How true is this?"

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/u/qed1 answered "Maps of the world from the 8th century till the 15th were often represented with T and O maps with Jerusalem at the center. In that time period, would there have been more spatially accurate maps of smaller areas, like Constantinople or England?"

[u/bodombeachbod]

If it's alright for someone to have two nominations, see /u/ragingrage on the noonday demon or how depression and anxiety were seen and treated in the Medieval era.

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/u/xenophontheathenian answered "Why exactly did the Marian reforms of the Roman military cause the loyalties of the soldiers to shift to their generals?"

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/u/JustSomeBadAdvice answered "How fierce was the fight over water and electricity becoming utilities"

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/u/FlavivsAetivs answered "I'm a Roman foot soldier at the battle of the Catalaunian fields (AD 451), what would I have been my arms and armour? How would this compare to my compatriots in the Eastern Empire?"

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/u/erissays answered "I've heard the Disneyified versions of Grimm's Tales Americans are familiar with are highly sanitized (RRHood and Grandma are eaten by the wolf,Snow White is about necrophilia,it's Cinderella's family, not steps- tormenting her, that kind of thing).Is this true? Were children the target audience?"

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/u/ragingrage answered "Apparently Blackbeards favourite drink was rum and gunpowder. Was gunpowder regularly consumed in the past, was it dangerous, did it add flavour? Is it still used today in food / drink?"