The Tokyo Stock Exchange was in operation for much of WWII up to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the firebombing of Tokyo. What were the conditions of Japan's stock market like during the course of the war, especially as Japan's cities and industry were destroyed by Allied bombs? (old.reddit.com)
Beethoven was famously enraged when Napoleon declared himself Emperor. How did the rest of Europe, including French citizens, view his abandonment of republican ideals? Did his military forces that nominally fought for those ideals feel betrayed, and did foreign European aristocracy feel reassured? (old.reddit.com)
When did Byzantine culture begin to think of the Western Roman provinces as independent kingdoms as opposed to occupied provinces to which it still had de jure rights or claims? (old.reddit.com)
It's been said that public education in the US was designed to educate kids just enough to be useful to industry, to feed a constant supply of laborers to factories. So what's the alternative? (old.reddit.com)
What was the average life like during the Middle Ages in Europe? Not necessarily a day to day life, but things like what age did folks get married? What age did they have kids? What ages were considered middle aged or old? (old.reddit.com)
Is there any evidence that the Knights Templar actually deviated from Christianity and adopted Greek Pantheism or belief in Pagan deities like Baphomet? (old.reddit.com)
Why do people like fishing? Seems pretty boring and I don't understand why you'd be proud that you tricked a fish, they aren't very smart. (old.reddit.com)
Ancient and medieval scribes made several errors and changes when copying the Bible, leading to several passages where the original version is disputed to this day, and several instances where errors have shaped the way key passages are understood. Is the same true of any sufficiently ancient text? (old.reddit.com)
At what point did you stop telling your close friends about your problems (venting) and started dealing with them alone because you felt like they have their own stuff going on too and you'd feel guilty for dumping more on them? (old.reddit.com)
Married people of Reddit, what was the moment that made you go, "this is definitely the person I am going to spend the rest of my life with"? (old.reddit.com)
Do male-to-female transgender people who have had their penis removed experience phantom limb syndrome, similar to someone who’s lost an arm? (old.reddit.com)
The US Military has started human trials of a Spike Ferritin Nanoparticle COVID vaccine. How is this different from other types of vaccines? (old.reddit.com)
People who add their sexual orientation to bios and stuff like that or generally always have everybody know their sexual preferences, why do you think it's important for other people to know? (old.reddit.com)
The 1918 Spanish Flu was supposedly "forgotten" There are no memorials and no holidays commemorating it in any country. But historians believe the memory of it lives on privately, in family stories. What are your family's Spanish Flu stories that were passed down? (old.reddit.com)
Anybody else have good/ weird ideas right before they go to sleep and then wake up the next morning and think that that idea was stupid? (old.reddit.com)
Why are there wooden cutting board when wood is so porous and can house so much bacteria? Don’t you just cut through the coating/finish? (old.reddit.com)
Was there ever a time when homosexuality was as accepted as it is now in Western society? For example were homosexual couples allowed to openly exist or even have a family without it being taboo? (old.reddit.com)
Am I the only one who constantly searches definitions of words because I'm not sure what they truly mean? I need to make sure I'm thinking correctly (old.reddit.com)
Does anyone else plan things to do during their free time but then when the free time rolls around you’re too tired to do anything and then you regret it? (old.reddit.com)
Can we dig channels to dried lakes, like Ahnet or Chad, so that when ice melts water will fill them up and prevent flooding of the coastlines? (old.reddit.com)
AMA: I am Alex Wellerstein, historian of science, author of the new book RESTRICTED DATA: THE HISTORY OF NUCLEAR SECRECY IN THE UNITED STATES — ask me anything about nuclear history or government secrecy (old.reddit.com)
Since ice is melting that hasn’t been melted in millions of years is it possible for an old virus or disease to be spread with no knowledge of what it is? (old.reddit.com)
Students enrolled at Princeton at age 13 in the colonial era. Were they at a similar level of academic achievement as today's 18-year old enrollees? Were they considered adults? (old.reddit.com)
USMC historical tradition tells that sniper Carlos Hathcock crawled for four days to shoot a North Vietnamese General during a volunteer assignment. Is there any information about this assignment? (old.reddit.com)
The average temperature outside airplanes at 30,000ft is -40° F to -70° F (-40° C to -57° C). The average causing speed is 575mph. If speed=energy and energy equals=heat, is the skin of the airplane hot because of the speed or cold because of the temperature around? (old.reddit.com)
If housing prices keep going up to the point where only a tiny fraction of millennials and Gen Z will be able to afford them, what happens? (old.reddit.com)
"Tyrant" and "Despot" in modern English both refer to particularly cruel and oppressive rulers, but originally were just fairly generic Greek terms for rulers. How did they gain their English connotations? (old.reddit.com)
AskScience AMA Series: I'm a cancer doc and I'm studying how fecal microbiome transplants (poop!) could boost cancer immunotherapy. Ask Me Anything! (old.reddit.com)
Anyone else feel like they're smart overall, but way too stupid way too often (like, suddenly all of your common sense leaves your body)? (old.reddit.com)
I’m very much pro-vaccine, but am nervous about the lack of data on long-term effects of the covid vaccines since they were pushed out so quickly. Are there any reassurances that it’s unlikely to be anything serious? (old.reddit.com)
Gay men: Do you just not eat for a while and go to the bathroom before sex, or do you just deal with the poop? How does spontaneous sex work for you? (old.reddit.com)
I am a random Praetorian Guard in 41 CE. How much notice do I have that we are about to assassinate Emperor Caligula and replace him with Claudius? (old.reddit.com)
You're offered the ability to absorb the knowledge of any book you touch instantly, but the way it works is that time freezes and won't unfreeze until you finish reading the book cover to cover, do you accept this power/curse? Why or why not? (old.reddit.com)
does anyone feel like they’ve stopped being human after the pandemic? like all your motivation and emotion is gone and you feel like an organism that’s just surviving (old.reddit.com)
How are you supposed to dispose of a full size sex doll without getting ridiculed by the trashman and without it looking like it's a corpse? (old.reddit.com)
AskScience AMA Series: We're Heather Job, Corinne Drennan, Jonathan Male, and Yangang Liang from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. We use robots to advance energy storage and bioenergy, helping to speed up discoveries. National Robotics Week is April 3-11, help us celebrate. AUA! (old.reddit.com)
In a TIME article talking about the historical symbolism of Montero by Lil Nas X, there's a section talking about Christianity in the Middle Ages. It states that Christianity was more ambivalent than it is now towards queerness. So what caused that to change as time progressed? (old.reddit.com)
teachers of reddit, what are the new student groups replacing the ones (emo, goth, drama, etc) that used to be a thing when you were attending school? (old.reddit.com)
4 of the Harry Potter movies were PG-13, which means they could each have had 1 f-bomb. Where do you think would be the best place to put them? (old.reddit.com)
How do Egyptians view their own history? We hear about Egypt from a European perspective. How do the people living in Egypt see ancient Egypt? (old.reddit.com)
We've taken photos of the night sky for some time now. Is it yet possible to see parallax from us moving through the milky way by comparing old and new observations? (old.reddit.com)
Ladies who excelled when you were young, but then ran into a hurdle such as mental illness (or other confounding factors) and fell behind, how do you reconcile with the fact that you had so much wasted potential? (old.reddit.com)
I’m a colonist in rural New York, living on a small one room house on a family farm. What is the storage situation for my clothes? Do I have dedicated summer and winter clothing? And how are my “off season” clothes stored? (old.reddit.com)
Why Did the Cherokee, a nation of people driven out of their lands in Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina, Alabama and Kentucky, give such strong support to the Confederates during the Civil War when many of the states in it were the primary actors of the Cherokee removal? (old.reddit.com)
How accurate is the concept of "Wanted: Dead or Alive" posters being placed in public for any prospective bounty hunter to take up the hunt? (old.reddit.com)
Tonight I was called "gay" for being a man and drinking a white claw. Just out of curiosity what chemicals in the white claw made me gay and how can I reverse it to go back to my normal asexual self? (old.reddit.com)
It's the European middle ages, and I'm traveling from England to Rome or Jerusalem for a pilgrimage. What's border security like, as I cross (presumably) multiple international borders along the way? Do I need a passport or some equivalent? (old.reddit.com)
Since bugs have to deal with water tension, when they drink is it like drinking jelly, or is it like biting through the skin to get to water? (old.reddit.com)
The 1950s are famous for recipes that rely on canned, gelatinized, and otherwise industrially packed ingredients. These recipes are often disgusting to a modern eye. How did culinary tastes turn against this trend in favor of "fresh" and "whole" ingredients? (old.reddit.com)
When Pluto was downgraded to a dwarf planet what was the cause of this? ie. more accurate observations? a recalculation of its size? A change in the definitions of planetary size? (old.reddit.com)
When you taste something sweet after eating another sweet thing, the second thing doesn’t taste as sweet. Is that due to the taste receptors themselves not firing as often or is it your brain filtering out the signal? (old.reddit.com)