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What has led to the Book of Ecclesiastes being preserved in Bibles throughout the millennia despite its apparent nihilistic and even atheistic themes? What have theological discourses said about it over the centuries?

166 upvotes • Elphinstone1842

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What is the history behind the shift in Satan being regarded as an agent of God in Orthodox Judaism to being seen as a entity separate from God in Christianity.

166 upvotes • Fuzzebear007

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Was Michel Foucault a good historian, or a bad one?

166 upvotes • gluten_free_godzilla

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I am a child in a middle-class family in medieval Europe. What kind of toys my parents can offer for me?

166 upvotes • duyc37

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Why did the Soviets put a window in Sputnik 2 for Laika, the first dog in space? Surely that complicated the design of the spacecraft.

166 upvotes • mcgroo

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How big of a problem were pirates during the golden age of piracy?

166 upvotes • Cranyx

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When did the concept of a “brand” first come up? How did people differentiate products and their producers (if at all) before brands?

166 upvotes • F3lixes

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Was CCR really the "soundtrack" of the Vietnam War the way film and television portray it to be?

166 upvotes • Holymuffdiver9

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there is so much Media today about what future technology might be, did ancient cultures such as the Romans ever speculate either through predictions or stories of what technology they thought might be created in the future?

166 upvotes • RxEko_ffs

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A month or so before passing away, Isaac Newton was working on deciphering religious texts and he burned all of his unpublished and unfinished work. Why did he destroyed all of his work? What could he possibly have found?

166 upvotes • UtherTheOutlaw

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What has led to the Book of Ecclesiastes being preserved in Bibles throughout the millennia despite its apparent nihilistic and even atheistic themes? What have theological discourses said about it over the centuries?	166	Elphinstone1842
What is the history behind the shift in Satan being regarded as an agent of God in Orthodox Judaism to being seen as a entity separate from God in Christianity.	166	Fuzzebear007
Was Michel Foucault a good historian, or a bad one?	166	gluten_free_godzilla
I am a child in a middle-class family in medieval Europe. What kind of toys my parents can offer for me?	166	duyc37
Why did the Soviets put a window in Sputnik 2 for Laika, the first dog in space? Surely that complicated the design of the spacecraft.	166	mcgroo
How big of a problem were pirates during the golden age of piracy?	166	Cranyx
When did the concept of a “brand” first come up? How did people differentiate products and their producers (if at all) before brands?	166	F3lixes
Was CCR really the "soundtrack" of the Vietnam War the way film and television portray it to be?	166	Holymuffdiver9
there is so much Media today about what future technology might be, did ancient cultures such as the Romans ever speculate either through predictions or stories of what technology they thought might be created in the future?	166	RxEko_ffs
A month or so before passing away, Isaac Newton was working on deciphering religious texts and he burned all of his unpublished and unfinished work. Why did he destroyed all of his work? What could he possibly have found?	166	UtherTheOutlaw