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When it comes to Norse mythology, Valhalla is far more well known that Folkvangr, where half of the dead of battle went. Why is this? and did the Norse view Folkvangr as preferable or a worse fate than Valhalla?
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I've read that when liberating Nazi camps, American soldiers were so furious that they sometimes killed the guards who had surrendered. Did the British or Soviets have the same reaction?
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During the 4th crusade, Constantinople was defended by 20 half rotted war galleys. What happened in between the reigns of Manuel Comnenus and Alexius III to make the navy basically non existent
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Why was the Emirate, and late Caliphate, of Cordoba never able to conquer it's Christian neighbors in northern Hispania?
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I've been taught that when Europeans found the new world, they brought with them many diseases that wiped out the native American population. but- wouldn't this work both ways? wouldnt the colonists encounter new diseases in America that they had no immunity to?
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Was there any form of public transport in the Roman Empire similar to what we find today in that it had standardised routes and fees?
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Why did people in the southeast of Scotland end up identifying as Scottish rather than English, as the area used to be part of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria?
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why do lions appear so often in traditional Chinese culture (lion dance, stone lion statues) if lions never lived in China
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In the early 14th century, Mansa Musa recounted a story of his predecessor disappearing on an attempt to cross the Atlantic with thousands of ships. If such an expedition did happen, what would the Malian ships have looked like?
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