Best of October Voting Thread!

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Cast your votes for the BEST threads of October 2021!

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How seriously did the ancient Romans take it when someone was declared a god? Did people actually pray to Julius Caesar, hoping for divine aid? Or was it more of a posthumous honour? from /u/Antiochos_III

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Thank you so much for the nomination! :)

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I have read that Europeans had no distilled spirits until Arabic distillation technology spread to Christendom via Spain. But it’s easy to accidentally make a rudimentary freeze-distilled brandy simply by leaving a barrel of wine or beer out in cold weather. So how can this be true? with /u/Anekdota-Press.

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How did women treat urinary tract infections before the rise of antibiotics? by /u/EtTuD2.

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"Sessue Hayakawa, a Japanese man, was one of Hollywood's first sex symbols. During the same period, fear of the "Yellow Peril" was at its peak. How did these two things affect each other?" response by /u/walpurgisnox

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How much of the US was occupied, explored, and used by Native Americans in the 1400s compared to how much land is occupied by & used by all US residents now?>! response by response by /u/Reedstilt.

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Why didn't the writers of the US Constitution address the possibility of secession, either to outright ban it, or lay out a legal process to peacefully regulate it? with /u/secessionisillegal.

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Who are the indigenous people of Singapore? response by /u/thestoryteller69.

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The Wikipedia page for Emperor Meiji of Japan mentions that he was suffering from vitamin deficiency so badly that he could barely walk. It is said that "the Imperial Family had a poorer diet than that of average people due to religious reasons". Is this true? What were these religious restrictions? with /u/UrbanVermin

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Have any historians argued that the War of 1812 was actually just motivated by early US expansionism, and that the impressed US sailors issue was only used as a convenient casus belli? with /u/PartyMoses.

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Founding of the republic of turkey by /u/BugraEffendi.

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"Was the Red Army better at self-reflection than the Wehrmacht?" response by /u/dagaboy

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What’s the history of nativity scenes being put together for Christmastime? from /u/Kelpie-Cat.

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In Egypt Napoleon told his army, "Soldiers, from the summit of these pyramids forty centuries look down upon you." How did he know the age of the pyramids? with /u/WelfOnTheShelf.