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How did "esquire", a rank of nobility that were apprentices to knights, come to be the title for lawyers?
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My father found a Justinian the 1st Byzantine Gold coin on the Isle of Sheppey, England, is there any historical importance or a reason that this coin was found here?
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If I am a Roman child in classical antiquity, what kind of toys would I play with? What kind of games would I play with other children or parents?
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Why did take till the 1960s for smoking cannabis to become well know in Western Countries if cannabis was being cultivated in the West for hundreds of years for the purpose of producing hemp fibre?
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Why did Europeans go through so much trouble to import slaves from Africa, instead of simply enslaving other Europeans and shipping them to their plantations in the colonies?
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