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I'm a medieval king building a network of castles, where do I build them that'll stop invaders from ignoring them and going straight for towns or cities?
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Was Austria-Hungary considered a powerful country on the eve of WW1, was it seen as comparable to France, Great Britain of Russia?
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How common was it for construction workers on early skyscrapers to fall to their deaths? And; what (if any) compensation was there available to families?
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Armies of the ancient world were huge due to the lack of infectious epidemic disease, but armies of the Renaissance were much smaller due to plague, smallpox, etc. What is the modern opinion of this theory?
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In the past, people who could hear voices in their head were often seen as prophets or mystics (eg Nat Turner, for a number of protagonists in biblical stories). Nowadays, if you say that you hear voices in your head, people call the psychiatrist. How did this cultural shift happen and why?
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Why have places like Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the US fared so much better than other former European colonies (in terms of wealth, democracy and stability)?
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