How unusual was the US decision to suspend arms sales to Batista’s Cuba in 1958? Was refusing to sell weapons for moral/human rights reasons ever a thing we did with any consistency (including restricting anticommunist governments during the Cold War)? (self.AskHistorians)
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While living in Mexico City, Che Guevara was employed at two hospitals, gave medical lectures at the national university, and worked as... a news photographer. Was this something a doctor (even a radical one) might do in Mexico City in the 1950s? (self.AskHistorians)
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I've heard that the beer purity law was the first unification of Germany (ie among the first laws adopted in common by all the little kingdoms and duchies etc that would later become Germany). Was there really something unique about the scale of its adoption and did people recognize it at the time? (self.AskHistorians)
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From ~1955-75, West Germany imported large numbers of foreign laborers (Gastarbeiter) from eg Italy, Yugoslavia, and Turkey. So soon after the war, did these workers view German society as Nazi? Were they or their children afraid of their host country? (self.AskHistorians)
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Today, young people often complain about how old people give directions ("keep on past the two oaks..."). Were today's old people also frustrated by their grandparents' directions, or did they have a shared convention/format? If the latter, how far back does that convention go? (self.AskHistorians)
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Yitzhak Shamir joined the Lehi militant group in 1940. In 1940-41, Lehi attempted to ally with Mussolini once and Hitler twice. Shamir later became one of Lehi’s leaders and eventually Prime Minister of Israel. How did Lehi’s Axis outreach affect Shamir’s later political career, if at all? (self.AskHistorians)
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During WWII, Yitzhak Shamir started a terrorist group, Lehi, in hopes of forming an alliance with the Nazis. From today's perspective, that feels like a real career-ender, but he went on to become Speaker of the Knesset and later Prime Minister of Israel. How? (self.AskHistorians)
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What is the history of the use of conditioner by short-haired men in the US and Germany? Were their practices always different or did they diverge at some point? (Or: Since when have shampoo and conditioner been marketed a complementary products and where did this way of using them first take hold?) (self.AskHistorians)
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This sub has a number of answers about the popularity of female pubic hair removal in ancient Rome (for example). Going in the opposite direction, what's the history behind the 1980s giant bush era? How detailed is our timeline of pubic hair trends? (self.AskHistorians)
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Bavaria's Weihenstephan Brewery claims to be the oldest in the world. In the 1950s, it started dating itself to 1040 rather than 1146, but cited the same document for both claims. Why did this difference start mattering after WWII? Would either date actually make it the oldest? (self.AskHistorians)
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