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How did spices generate insane amounts of money for European empires when they were just a luxury item used on food, and not something essential like oil and gas are today?
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Why does nearly every form of art depict Jesus as having long hair despite there being no mention of this in the Bible?
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Why was turnout higher in midterms than in presidential elections in the US until roughly the 1820s?
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Did Neville Chamberlain actually believe that he had achieved peace in Europe or was he simply trying to buy time for Britain to prepare for war?
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How did the lion become such a prominent medieval symbol on European flags/banners despite the lack of lions in Europe?
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France is split by the "diagonal of emptiness" (diagonale du vide), a wide strip of land running southwest to northeast with sparse population -- an "empty" countryside. When, where else & why did this happen?
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Considering that "Elohim" is an Hebrew word used in the Old Testament to refer to both "God" and "gods", did any of the sources used to write the Pentateuch refer with certainty to a plurality of deities?
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In the popular videogame 'Skyrim', a treaty stipulates that the losing nation of a prior war remove one of their deities from its pantheon, no longer recognizing the figure ("Talos") as a deity. Are there examples of 'editing' a nation's religion as a term of surrender in the real world?
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