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Did Venice in the Renaissance and middle ages have any decent sewer system or people just threw their feces in the canal ? Did someone important ever complain for the smell ?
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How did "King" become an English surname? Wouldn't some English kings take issue to other people calling themselves "King"?
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A girl today looks at marriage and says "its about love"; but given that the concept of marriage for love wasn't invented until late medieval times, what would a Roman girl say about marriage? What would marriage mean to her?
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Someone recently told me that the reason Mexican food is so good is because the Aztec and other empires had royal courts with highly developed culinary cultures. What do we know about pre-Columbian high food culture?
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Homer doesn't give Odysseus' ship a name, or name any of the ships in the Iliad. When did people start naming ships?
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Why did Nazi Germany invade Poland despite having ample reason to believe that this would be a disastrous geopolitical move?
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Despite being able small minority in the U.S., Sikh-Americans are a common sight on the highway and at rest stops as long-haul truckers. Is there a historical basis for why this industry has attracted so many Sikhs, as opposed to other industries?
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