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Robert Evans recently described Christopher Columbus' Genoa as a violent, unforgiving and joyless place. Is this a fair description of a 15th century Italian city state?
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What did Lenin and the Bolsheviks think about the revolutionary leaders that established the United States?
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Did our ancestors clamp and cut and tie the umbilicus (navel) like we do? If so, always? If not, when and how did it begin?
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We're all familiar with the concept of going out to eat (going somewhere, sitting down, ordering food, being waited on, etc) but how far back in human history does this concept go? Was there a certain time period and/or region where this originated?
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We have eastern (Confucius/buddha) & western schools of thought (Plato/Abraham), but what about Africa? In the last... 6,000 years, who has defined the Southern schools? Is Egypt/hermes trismegistus the pinnacle? Who are the writers/teachers?
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