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What did the drummer boys in 17th and 18th century conflicts do when charging? Did they actually participate in the combat or did they just kinda awkwardly stand there and drum?
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How come the lion is part of the coat of arms for so many northern European countries (Sweden, Norway, Finland, Scotland, UK, Denmark) despite lions living exclusively in Africa?
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My dad talks about some strange occult things the Nazis did, and it sounds really strange to me. Can anyone verify this?
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How did Italian Catholics justify wars against the Papal States? Was this controversial among Catholics in general?
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I'm a female computer (someone who performs calculations by hand) sometime between 1700 and the advent of modern electrical computers. How much mathematical training do I have and where did I study?
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Where does the idea that sanskrit is literally magic comes from?, is it a new development related to hindu nationalism or has it always been there?
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Many Socialist, Anarchist, and Communist revolutionaries in the 19th and early 20th centuries opted to go to Switzerland instead of getting arrested. Why did Switzerland allow them to stay?
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How was forced sterialization of native Americans in the 70s approved and was this public knowledge?
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I am an American slave in 1804. Will I have heard of Toussaint Louverture or the successful Haitian revolution?
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I learned that slavery was pretty much everywhere in the ancient world. Slave markets were common place in most of the big cities. Approaching the Middle Ages, how did slavery change? Was it a gradual change to serfdom? The whole view of a slave-servant to a ‘slave-subject’?
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