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In English we call them Hungarians, but they call themselves the Magyars. Where did “Hungarian” come from, who or what named them this?
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What happened to the 200,000 Polish children Germany kidnapped and forcibly adopted out to German families?
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In the Roman empire.. what happened to geriatric slaves? If you owned a slave that supported your household for decades and into the slaves old age.. what happened ?
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Leif Erikson is famously the first European to arrive to the New World (5 centuries before Columbus). So how was a viking long boat able to carry supplies to last journey across the North Atlantic ?
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Khat is a stimulant plant widely used for millenia in Yemen, Ethiopia, and Somalia--much like coffee. Also like Coffee, it can be grown in tropical environments worldwide. Why did Coffee become a global trade good, while Khat remained confined to Eastern Africa and Southern Arabia?
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Artists of today are able to produce photo-real drawings with only a pencil and lots of time. Why is it we don’t have similar photo-real drawings from hundreds of years in the past?
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Why did the Greeks use a long-distance runner to deliver news at the Battle of Marathon instead of traveling by horse? Did they not have any horses?
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What caused Sweden to transform from a highly militaristic society (30 years war through the Napoleonic Wars) to one of staunch neutrality? (WWI & II)
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