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How were the Ottomans able to conquer the entire eastern Mediterranean using the same core territories as the Byzantines, who had barely been able to expand?
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In "Born in the USA" Springsteen sings "Got in a little home town jam/So they put a rifle in my hand/Sent me off to a foreign land/To go and kill the yellow man". Is he referring to some kind of punishment where troublemakers would be drafted during the Vietnam war, or something else?
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Imagine a typical (British) slave working in a Roman aristocrat's vineyard in AD97, Imagine a typical slave working in a Virginia plantation in AD1797. Which of them works the most hours (relative to the amount of sleep, rest or leisure they're allowed)? Which has the least calories in their diet?
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Is it true that there are sexual parts left out of published Anne Frank dairy and if so why did Anne father do that?
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What is the origin of the trope that British people had bad teeth/dental hygiene, and does it have any historical basis?
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From what I understand, what is now part of Ethiopia had an ancient Hebrew-speaking population (the Kingdom of Semien) and now contains some of the oldest populations of both Christians and Muslims. Why was this region seemingly so hospitable for followers of Abrahamic religions?
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What do we know about the mortality/success rate during the Polynesian voyages of migration? If I were a navigator signing up for one of these voyages do I stand a reasonable chance of ending up colonizing a new island or am I signing up for something more akin to a suicide mission?
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