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In 62 bc Cicero bought a house from Crassus for 3.5 million sesterces. How was that transaction executed? Seems like it would be a logistical nightmare. Did Cicero cart all that money across town and deliver it? Where was that money stored?

2648 upvotes • guilty_as_cataline

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I'm closing a ten year old internet forum. Are there any best practices for the preservation of web forums?

2648 upvotes • snake_a_leg

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Were the Chinese Kingdoms (particularly the Qin and the Han) aware of Alexander the Great and his conquests?

2646 upvotes • Is_This_Democracy_

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Both the Norse and the Greek pantheon were not the first generation of gods, and both killed their progenitors. Is there a common ancestor between the two beliefs?

2644 upvotes • unsilviu

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Floating Feature: Spill Some Inca about the Amazon' History of Middle and South America

2643 upvotes • Georgy_K_Zhukov

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News reports this week about a so-called 'Sistine Chapel of rock art' discovered deep in the Colombian wilderness allege the existence of a 12,500-year-old, eight-mile-long series of paintings depicting everything from scaffolding to megafauna worship. But... really, though?

2643 upvotes • ColonelBy

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In the Bible, there are numerous occasions where Paul mentions finding someone or being found in a place like Rome or parts of the Middle East. How did people in that time locate each other when traveling from great distances away?

2642 upvotes • Novantico

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A significant amount of traditional Mexican music, particularly from the North, sounds basically identical to traditional German polka. Is there some historical connection between German music and Mexican music, or is this a coincidence?

2641 upvotes • LevyShorts

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Were there Nixon fanatics in a similar way to Trump fanatics? If so, How was their reaction to Watergate?

2641 upvotes • Turbulent_Apple369

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Soviet propaganda often depicted the USSR as a tolerant country without racism and criticized the US for Jim Crow laws. To what extent was the Soviet ideal of a racism-free society true? How freely of racism could a non-white person live in the USSR?

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In 62 bc Cicero bought a house from Crassus for 3.5 million sesterces. How was that transaction executed? Seems like it would be a logistical nightmare. Did Cicero cart all that money across town and deliver it? Where was that money stored?	2648	guilty_as_cataline
I'm closing a ten year old internet forum. Are there any best practices for the preservation of web forums?	2648	snake_a_leg
Were the Chinese Kingdoms (particularly the Qin and the Han) aware of Alexander the Great and his conquests?	2646	Is_This_Democracy_
Both the Norse and the Greek pantheon were not the first generation of gods, and both killed their progenitors. Is there a common ancestor between the two beliefs?	2644	unsilviu
Floating Feature: Spill Some Inca about the Amazon' History of Middle and South America	2643	Georgy_K_Zhukov
News reports this week about a so-called 'Sistine Chapel of rock art' discovered deep in the Colombian wilderness allege the existence of a 12,500-year-old, eight-mile-long series of paintings depicting everything from scaffolding to megafauna worship. But... really, though?	2643	ColonelBy
In the Bible, there are numerous occasions where Paul mentions finding someone or being found in a place like Rome or parts of the Middle East. How did people in that time locate each other when traveling from great distances away?	2642	Novantico
A significant amount of traditional Mexican music, particularly from the North, sounds basically identical to traditional German polka. Is there some historical connection between German music and Mexican music, or is this a coincidence?	2641	LevyShorts
Were there Nixon fanatics in a similar way to Trump fanatics? If so, How was their reaction to Watergate?	2641	Turbulent_Apple369
Soviet propaganda often depicted the USSR as a tolerant country without racism and criticized the US for Jim Crow laws. To what extent was the Soviet ideal of a racism-free society true? How freely of racism could a non-white person live in the USSR?	2639	___24601