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King Edward VIII's marriage in 1937 to a divorced woman caused a scandal that ended in his abdication, however Prince Charles married a divorced woman in 2005. Can this be explained by the public perception of divorce changing or were there other factors at play?
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How did Hannibal manage to keep his soldiers in Italy for about a decade, away from their families? Did they go on a rotation back to Carthage ? Did he pay them?
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With deodorant first really coming out commercially in 1888 in Philadelphia, did most of the world just smell like armpits once the clock struck noon on a warm day?
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Why did England, an island nation off in the corner of Europe, become the melting pot of Scandinavian, Celtic, Latin, and Germanic languages and cultures, as opposed to somewhere more centrally located like France or Northern Italy where it was easier for people to move around and share ideas?
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When the Aztec's found Teotihuacan they didn't know who built it or why but moved in and made the abandoned complex their own. Is this true and, if so, what other examples are there of "ancient" civilizations claiming ruins they knew very little about for their own purposes?
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I often hear jokes or half-jokes that "masculinity is always in crisis" from historians. What does this mean and how has this crisis manifested historically?
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I've always struggled to see the American War of Independence as a conventional anti-colonial uprising. It seems more similar to the Boer Wars of South Africa; a settler society which developed an identity of its own, and wanted to break free from the metropole. Is this accurate?
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