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It took 8 legions, numerous auxiliary cohorts, ten years and even Augustus himself to arrive on the scene for Rome conquer a relatively small territory in northern Spain. Who were these people who were so defiant, why were they so successfully at resisting the Roman invasion?
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Were there ever European contemporaries who were concerned they might find a more advanced civilisation during the Age of Exploration?
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Greek gods are often referred to as being "the God of X" (War, Love, Revenge). Did the Greeks themselves actually catalogue their gods this specifically, or is this a simplification applied by historians?
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How was John Milton's Paradise Lost, a poem portraying Satan sympathetically and as the protagonist, allowed to be published? Did the Church not attempt to prevent it?
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Serbia recently had its first prototypical "American-style" school-shooting where one teenager murdered several of his classmates. How long have things like this been happening; calculated, indiscriminate child-on-child mass murder in a schooling context, seemingly without clear motive?
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Hermann Göring committed suicide in prison by ingesting cyanide. How was he able to get access to cyanide while in prison?
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I am translating my great uncle's autobiography from German to English and I learned he was privy to juicy information about the Mayerling Incident (the murder-suicide of Crown Prince Rudolf and his lover) that I'm unable to corroborate online. Are there resources for situations like this?
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In 1871, the British Army, which had been using breechloading field artillery since 1859, reverted to using muzzle-loaders. What lay behind this change, especially given the demonstrated effectiveness of Prussian breechloading guns in the Franco-Prussian War the year before?
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