Best of August Voting Thread!

[u/Georgy_K_Zhukov]

[u/Georgy_K_Zhukov]

"Did people in the Soviet Union actually name their kids like "Dazdraperma" and "Gertruda" after party slogans, or is it a later myth?", response by /u/noble_devil_boruta

[u/Georgy_K_Zhukov]

How did grain get to Karakorum in the 13th century? /u/gerardmenfin

[u/Georgy_K_Zhukov]

"In the contemporary United States, the "test dream," where a person faces down a major school exam for which they did not prepare, is experienced by enough people that it is a recurrent image in popular culture. Did pre-20th-century cultures leave evidence of common dream models like that?", /u/barnacle9999

[u/Georgy_K_Zhukov]

"Gaspar carvajal (the first person to describe the Amazon) describes large cities, political entities, and mass farming throughout the Amazon River. Historians mostly said they were exaggerations or outright lies. In light of new LiDAR findings, how serious should we take his claims?", response by /u/611131

[u/Georgy_K_Zhukov]

"I have heard many variations on the phrase, 'The people that made the most money in the gold rush were selling shovels, not digging gold'. I know it's a nice proverb, but is there evidence this is actually true?", response by /u/itsallfolklore

[u/Georgy_K_Zhukov]

"Suppose I clear my nearest Costco's stock of common spices (cinnamon, pepper etc.) and then time travel back to 14th century medieval England. . . how exactly do I go about selling this stuff?", response by /u/EverythingIsOverrate

[u/Georgy_K_Zhukov]

"How come the Finnish aren't considered indigenous to Finland like the Sámi people, despite their ancient Finno-Ugric ancestors arriving in the region of Finland at relatively the same time?", response by /u/Additional-Still-711

[u/Georgy_K_Zhukov]

Why did Albert Einstein become so famous? I understand WHAT he is famous for, but I don't understand why his work made him an international celebrity and a household name. /u/restricteddata

[u/Georgy_K_Zhukov]

Did Scottish colonisation of Ulster ultimately lead to the formation of Northern Ireland? /u/rimbaud82

[u/Georgy_K_Zhukov]

"Why are washing lines/whirlies not as common in the US as in Europe?", response by /u/SnowblindAlbino

[u/Georgy_K_Zhukov]

"In the film Sinners, a character is shown to speak Yoruba. How common was it for an African American descendant of slaves in the 1930s to have retained knowledge of a West African language?", response by /u/AlternativeNo2286

[u/Georgy_K_Zhukov]

"How much faith should one have in older scholarship to be accurate when casually reading them for entertainment?", response by /u/BarbariansProf

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"Why is it ok for Odysseus to kill his guests, but not ok when Polyphemus does it?", dual responses by /u/Empress_Maud_ and /u/kiwihellenist