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Guardian Forests can be found all over Japan — Little islands of the wild amid farm fields and busy city streets. What's the history and purpose of these sanctuaries? Are the Japanese unique in their creation, or are were these forest shrines build elsewhere around the world but later destroyed?
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Given strong Mongol taboos around blood and the body, what was battlefield medical care like for Genghis Kahn and his successors
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The Russians converted from paganism to Christianity in the 10th century. Is there any in-depth information about the pre-Christian religion(s)? Are there any remains of such places of worship, or any remnants of the earlier religion still present in local tradition in the present?
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Is there a reason only a few European cuisines incorporated the spiciness of chili peppers after they were introduced to Europe? Are there spicy French, German, out English dishes I'm just unaware of?
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I’ve seen Japanese artwork from the Edo era and before depicting Tigers. Did tigers ever inhabit the islands of Japan? If not, how might a Japanese person encounter a tiger before the Meiji era?
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In "Terror and Democracy in the Age of Stalin" (2007), Wendy Z Goldman uses declassified arquives to argue that the purges in the USSR under Stalin were a much more bottom-up and de-centralized phenomenom than is usually thought in the popular view. Is this now considered the academic consensus?
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