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In Medieval Europe, how much does it cost to get properly fed and/or drunk at a restaurant? Can common people afford the cost?
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I just learned that camels are not native to the the Levant or North Africa, but were introduced as a domestic breed during the Hellenistic period. How did the introduction of camels affect travel and commerce in the ancient world?
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Switzerland had an impressive military history up until the early 16th century, at which point they adopted their famous neutrality. What caused them to adopt this stance, and how have they been able to maintain it through 500 years of European wars??
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How did Worcestershire sauce, an English product, come to be so ubiquitous in Japanese cuisine that simply the word for sauce (ソース) can be used to refer to it?
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In Othello, Brabantio accuses Othello of addicting his daughter to drugs, and in Macbeth, characters wonder if they've eaten "the insane root" after seeing the witches. How familiar were Elizabethan audiences with psychoactive substances and drug addiction? What were their conceptions of such?
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When stores and restaurants had "whites only" out front or "no blacks" what would people who were neither do?
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