45.9K members. The best post we have captured here reached 2.3K upvotes, which works out to 49 per 1,000 members.
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Photograph of a Chinese coolie man enslaved in Peru in 1881 during the War of the Pacific. To prevent his escape, he wears shackles on his ankles. Be…
The Man Who Created a Written Language for the Cherokee Did It So Efficiently and Elegantly, His Peers Thought It Was Magic
The Roanoke Colony mystery
A Selk'nam mother with her son on Isla Grande in Tierra del Fuego, Patagonia, Argentina and Chile, circa 1923
Today is the 700th anniversary of the founding of Tenochtitlan. Now known as Mexico City
The first historical meeting between a sitting US & Mexican President, William Howard Taft & Porfirio Diaz, 1909.
Human remains from Spanish Reconcentración camps in Cuba during the Cuban War of Independence, 1898.
Tuíre Kayapó, an Indian warrior from the Amazon in Brazil, threatens with her machete the representative of the hydroelectric company Eletronorte, wh…
September 11, 1812 - Russians dedicate Fort Ross, their first stronghold on the California coast...
August 27, 1832 – Black Hawk, leader of the Sauk tribe of Native Americans, surrenders to U.S. authorities, ending the Black Hawk War...
Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.
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