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I stub my toe, and involuntarily tell “Ow!” But a Spanish speaker would say “Ay!” and a German would say “Autsch!” How long have English speakers been saying ow, and how did these splits emerge?
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In 1980 the USA led a 66-nation boycott of the Summer Olympics in Moscow in protest of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Was the USA was genuinely motivated by moral outrage over the invasion, or was it merely a pretext to boycott as an expression of Cold War propaganda?
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Why were the Indo-Iranians not interested much in historiographical writing? Neither pre-Islamic Iran nor pre-Islamic India seem to have any historical chronicles unlike those in Greece or China. Why is this so? Is this a case of lost texts or peculiaristic cultural attitudes?
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I was told that Charlemagne was the "father" of European royalty, yet royals existed prior to him. How was it that someone became royalty? (In Europe)
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What is the current scholarly consensus on the authorship of the Qur'an? Do most experts still hold the Qur'an to be principally the work of a single author?
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