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What did medieval soldiers engaged in battle do when their generals were killed. Did they retreat? Descend into chaos? Or was there a well established chain of command?
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I'm Dr. Omar Foda, author of the upcoming "Egypt's Beer: Stella, Identity, and the Modern State". AMA about the history and culture of brewing in Egypt! Or about the history of Egypt! Or just about beer!
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I am a German soldier stationed on Crete in 1941. I have passed through a post to go down a hill to a well and get some water. When I come back, I find every German soldier at the post to have their throats slit, though I was left alive and make it back to camp unmolested. Who killed the soldiers?
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How did gamblers in the 1800s determine the ordering of the poker hands? Was probability theory sufficiently well understood at the time that they were able to correctly compute the likelihood of being dealt each hand? Was there any debate about which hands should beat which?
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When the Dutch created massive new land like the Flevoland polder, how were farms and plots of land assigned?
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My professor mentioned the argument that romantic love wasn't truly a concept until the invention of the (romance) novel in the 1700s. Does that argument hold weight? How does it reconcile earlier depictions of romantic love, such as Hermia and Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream?
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In Fiddler on the Roof, why is a tailor poor and a butcher rich? Is it just random or meant to depict the actual status or wealth associated with these jobs in old Eastern European Jewish villages?
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It’s November 12, 1918. I am an American soldier on the front lines in France. What is the process for me getting home? How long will it take?
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