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2 votes
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A website that tells you the age of the actors in any movie
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K-Ships vs. U-Boats: Blimps hunting submarines in the Battle of the Atlantic
5 votes -
What do you think of alternate history?
I tend to watch AlternateHistoryHub, WhatIfAlthist and occasionally Monsieur Z (but less so since the guy somehow got a far-right audience) so I've always been interested in the idea of alternate...
I tend to watch AlternateHistoryHub, WhatIfAlthist and occasionally Monsieur Z (but less so since the guy somehow got a far-right audience) so I've always been interested in the idea of alternate history.
However, there's more than that. There are books and writers (I.E Harry turtledove), 3 subreddits (r/historywhatif, r/historicalwhatif and r/alternatehistory), many games (HOI I, II, III and IV, civ 1-6, Vicky 1-3, etc), a forum and according to Wikipedia, people have been speculating about history since before the year 0.
So what do you think of it?
7 votes -
The history of cryogenic ice cream, aka Dippin' Dots
6 votes -
The history of Nespresso's disposable coffee pods
5 votes -
Eight surprising literary Easter eggs
2 votes -
The rise and fall of Adobe Flash
10 votes -
The oldest restaurant in (almost) every country
8 votes -
'Gone With the Wind' and the difference between censorship and context
6 votes -
How Neapolitan cuisine took over the world
7 votes -
When Senator Joe McCarthy defended Nazis
4 votes -
Xerox PARC is fifty
10 votes -
So you think you know the banjo?
6 votes -
The time Bernie Sanders almost ran against Barack Obama, explained
5 votes -
The five most over-hyped tech devices
6 votes -
The Walkman, forty years on
6 votes -
Our country is in chaos. But it's a great time to be an American
12 votes -
Hannibal, Rome's greatest enemy (parts 1 - 5) | Second Punic War
7 votes -
How Vim became so popular
22 votes -
The history of popcorn
13 votes -
16th century bookwheels, the e-readers of the Renaissance, get brought to life by 21st century designers
3 votes -
The Republican choice: How the GOP chose to spend five decades making itself the white voter's party
21 votes -
Finland's air force quietly drops swastika symbol – the air force has been using a swastika ever since it was founded in 1918, shortly after the country became independent
13 votes -
The hidden history of Paris Is Burning
3 votes -
Trainwreckords: "Two the Hard Way" by Cher and Gregg Allman
4 votes -
What an underground nuclear test actually looks like
8 votes -
Tom Scott vs Irving Finkel: The Royal Game of Ur
11 votes -
The history of the US Army's 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, the largest unit of black servicewomen to ever deploy overseas
4 votes -
How 'Star Trek' made history twenty-two years ago with a same-sex kiss (2018)
10 votes -
Brian Laudrup looks back on how the Danes defied the odds to become the unlikely champions of Euro '92
4 votes -
Party and protest: The radical history of gay liberation, Stonewall and Pride
7 votes -
Pictures from the history of LGBTQ protests
7 votes -
You want a Confederate monument? My body is a Confederate monument (sexual assault trigger warning)
20 votes -
A pole lathe for our cabin
5 votes -
Carthaginian war elephants | Units of History
10 votes -
NASA names headquarters after ‘hidden figure’ Mary W. Jackson
4 votes -
COVID-19 adds a new snag to the 2020 census count of Native Americans
7 votes -
In Canada, Gold Rush-era garbage reveals a history of Chinese immigrant cuisine
6 votes -
‘Gone With the Wind’ is back on HBO Max — with two additional videos that discuss the historical context of the classic film
9 votes -
Deus Ex at twenty: The oral history of a pivotal PC game
11 votes -
Vast neolithic circle of deep shafts found near Stonehenge
7 votes -
My dad launched the quest to find alien intelligence. It changed astronomy
9 votes -
Cook a classical feast: Nine recipes from ancient Greece and Rome
7 votes -
Why Finnish people tell the truth – in Finland, people are assumed to be honest all the time, and trust is implicit unless proven otherwise
13 votes -
How do you feel board games have changed in the last twenty-five years?
Everyone always refers to the coming of Eurogames a long time back, but I'm wondering about modern games. Where have they come? Where will they go? I'd say the art has gotten better, more...
Everyone always refers to the coming of Eurogames a long time back, but I'm wondering about modern games. Where have they come? Where will they go? I'd say the art has gotten better, more eye-catching, but I'm more ambivalent about very recent (last five years) game mechanics.
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Did Europe have more mutations through its history?
This is something weird to me. I think skin color is pretty diverse no matter where you go, or at least, I don't know enough to say otherwise. But take hair color. Europe has more diversity in...
This is something weird to me. I think skin color is pretty diverse no matter where you go, or at least, I don't know enough to say otherwise. But take hair color. Europe has more diversity in hair color than almost anywhere else. Same with eye color. Why is this? Is it just because I interact with more people of European heritage on day to day business, or has Europe actually had more mutations which affect hair color, eye color, etc? Or is it that Europe, being a crossroads has had more people immigrate through it.
If this is racist, it's unintentional, this is just an observation, which I've been unable to find an answer to.
If you have an answer, a link to a paper would be great.
Edit: A point against what I just wrote that I thought of: Asia has both mono and double eyelids, which is something Europe doesn't have. Native americans don't count either for or against, since they immigrated fairly late in a small group, which also explains why almost all native americans are type O
5 votes -
Iconic Prince 'Blue Angel' guitar, that was once considered lost, is sold for over $500,000
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The ancient history of board games
7 votes -
What is Juneteenth and why is everybody talking about it this year?
17 votes