If I'm in New York and I send a text message to someone in Japan, how does my phone know on which local and undersea cables to send the information through for it to get to the recipient? (old.reddit.com)
Why is the US extermination and removal of the Native Americans not considered a “genocide”? Is this not labeled as a genocide because of a true consensus of historians on the historical record, or is this purely ignored due to political reasons? (old.reddit.com)
Do you ever feel like, wanting to cook, be emotional, dress "girly" etc, is hard because you should be going for the "strong independent women" vibe & doing those things appeals to a male ideal... sometimes I just want to cry and wear a dress without feeling like I'm appeasing the patriarchy. WHY? (old.reddit.com)
Lincoln considered having the federal government buy all US slaves from their owners and then free them. It would have been expensive, but not compared to a civil war. Was the buy-them-and-free-them solution realistic? (old.reddit.com)
My wife's first love and first sexual partner (2008) just moved next door to us. He has a wife and three children. How should i approach this sitch? (old.reddit.com)
Would you destroy the Statue of Liberty (or your home countries equivalent) to save the life of a single person you have never met? Why or why not? (old.reddit.com)
Women in relationships, how much emphasis do you place on the social media presence of your relationship? Whether your partner posts about you or not? (old.reddit.com)
The sandwich was supposedly invented by John Montague, the 4th Earl of Sandwich, as a quick meal while he gambled. What exactly did gambling/casinos look like in the 18th century? What sort of games would Montague and other aristocrats play? (old.reddit.com)
Tsar Nicholas II had a massive tattoo of a dragon covering his whole lower forearm, which he got as a youth on a trip to Japan. Irony of a Japanese tattoo aside, what would people have thought of the Tsar with a dragon tattoo? (old.reddit.com)
Hollywood movies make it seem like everyone partner danced on a regular basis from the 1920s up until some point in the 1960s. How popular was dancing to music during this period? If we stopped in a small to medium-sized US town in 1940s, would we find people dancing in the evenings? (old.reddit.com)
She did it again…..Am I weird for thinking my wife’s weird, for asking me to take a readily prepared vial of her breast milk, to package and ship, so a company can turn it into a necklace of bodily fluids to remember our children by? (old.reddit.com)
In the video game Shogun 2:Total War, Japanese samurai/soldiers of the Sengoku period wore bright colours and banners, unique for each clan. Did Japanese warriors of this period actually wear coloured "uniforms" in this way? (old.reddit.com)
Why were empires in the Americas high up in mountains (Aztec, Inca) while empires in Afro-Eurasia usually down by rivers (Nile, Yellow, Yangtze, Ganges, Indus)? (old.reddit.com)
When a woman says no to a guy asking her out or wanting to be in a relationship, does that naturally make a guy not want to take no for an answer? (old.reddit.com)
In a medieval European city, how often would a successful merchant, craftsman or mercenary own his own house? Could he sell it and buy a bigger one if he could afford it? How did this work? And how did this change in the early modern period? (old.reddit.com)
Why is it that anyone can birth/father a child with virtually no questions asked, but those who want to adopt one has to go through tough screenings, long waiting times and lots of bureaucracy? (old.reddit.com)
how did the usa go from having an explicit socialist candidate, albeit a relatively unpopular one, to the red scare of the 1920's in roughly a decade? (old.reddit.com)
Africa is famously known for having many borders being Europeans just drawing lines to benefit themselves. Why didn’t African nations try to change the borders after independence? Why even stuck in these arbitrary colonial forms? (old.reddit.com)
Religious people of Reddit, did you choose your religion or you were born into it? If you chose it, why did you pick that one specifically? (old.reddit.com)
Quebec separatism from Canada was a significant political movement in the 20th century. How was Quebecious independence viewed in France? Did the French people support it? Did Quebec separatists court France as an ally to their cause? (old.reddit.com)
How accurate is the "Fabricate a Claim" task in Crusader Kings games? Are there historical examples of someone pressing a fabricated claim to a crown? (old.reddit.com)
Was there anything to Stalin's accusations that the Western allies were delaying on opening a western front in order to bleed out both the Germans and the Soviets against each other? (old.reddit.com)
What are the current COVID tests in use that are capable of determining the exact variant being detected as present? How do they do it? (old.reddit.com)
Since the Supreme Court Justices are all political appointees with a role that lasted a lifetime, did the Founding Fathers ever worry that it would lead to them to side with the political parties or groups who appoint them? How does their reputation evolve throughout the two centuries since? (old.reddit.com)
Why do I make up situations with other people in my head then have them react negatively then come up with an angry response for myself in that hypothetical situation? (old.reddit.com)
The Iron Confederacy was a highly multicultural Great Plains polity that dominated Western Canada, and at its height, controlled the trade coming out of many British forts. Yet little information is available about them online. What was their history, & what are some good sources to learn about it? (old.reddit.com)
Dan Jones' Plantagenets says Simon de Monford was killed in battle by a specialist hit squad of twelve men led by Roger Mortimer. How common were "hit squads" in medieval European battles and how did they function? (old.reddit.com)
Do surgeons actually have casual conversations about their personal lives (or anything else really) while operating on someone, like it’s often shown in movies and TV shows? (old.reddit.com)
For a long time, French was considered the language of the elites, especially in Britain. So, how did the phrase ‘Pardon my French’, develop? (old.reddit.com)
Of the twenty-five Einsatzgruppe commanders, a shocking fifteen of them had Ph.Ds. Why did the SS insist on having their Death Squads run by credentialed academics? (old.reddit.com)
If you were a well educated Black person in the South during the 1960's, and could pass a literacy test and afford a poll tax, would you be able vote, or did they still have other barriers to stop you? (old.reddit.com)
I'm An (17M) Intern And My Coworker (27F) Rubbed Her Vagina While Smiling, Looking At Me During A Conversation, Should I Do Anything About This? (old.reddit.com)
Why did Napoleon I attack to seize Moszow instead of St. Petersburg? I would've assumed that St. Petersburg would be the prime target since Alexander I resided there as well as it being the heart of the empire. It would've been logistically easier as well since you could resupply by sea. (old.reddit.com)
I work a minimum wage job as a sales assistant, my boss found out I’m good at photoshop and wants me to edit some photos, instead of working on the floor. Should I ask for extra payment considering photo editing usually garners more than minimum wage (old.reddit.com)
Congratulations! You're on a first date with someone you really like, what's something that they could say that would ruin it completely? (old.reddit.com)
Why would vaccines target the spike protein, when it's the most mutable protein in covid? If the spike protein isn't the most mutable, why don't they target multiple proteins? (old.reddit.com)
pretty much every kid had an imaginary friend who ran along the side of the road during car rides. What was yours? did they have any rules? Any special powers? (old.reddit.com)
I’m a poor man in Napoleonic London. Do I have any idea about what’s going on in the continent? Do I just hear about the major battles, or al I aware of what campaigns are happening? (old.reddit.com)
Why are so many celebrities being "cancelled" for something they said or tweeted many years ago, when celebrities who was arrested for DUI, sexual offences, rape, etc, still continue to gain success and fame? (old.reddit.com)
Is it true that if you get in an accident and a paramedic sees on your license you are an organ donor, they won't try as hard to save you? (old.reddit.com)
July 14th, 1789, the Bastille was captured. Only a few weeks later in August, slave uprisings in Saint-Domingue proclaimed, “the white slaves have killed their masters, and now we are free.” How did news make it so quickly to the Caribbean, and how did slaves stay informed on political issues? (old.reddit.com)
Did the 2001 film "Enemy at the Gates" popularize common misconceptions about the Red Army during World War II, such as the supposedly widespread use of "human wave" tactics and "no step back" orders? (old.reddit.com)
If you were temporarily given the power to end all life, would choosing NOT to do so mean you would be ethically responsible for all the suffering that came afterwards? (old.reddit.com)
Where does the motive/trope/scene of firefighters saving cats from trees in US movies come from?🚒🌳🐱 I'm wondering 'cause it seems so unrealistic for me as an European. (old.reddit.com)
In 1957 The USSR renamed a Moscow metro station after anarchist thinker Peter Kropotkin. How was Kropotkin and anarchism in general taught/though about in the USSR? (old.reddit.com)
Queen Victoria began studying Urdu at the age of 69, carrying on for 13 years till her death at age 81. Did she have any practical reason for doing this? Did her subjects in India know or care? Was it mostly an intellectual exercise? (old.reddit.com)