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What did people in the Middle Ages think of static electricity?

443 upvotes • Mr_man769

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Does the Chinese government have any official statement/story regarding the Tiananmen square massacre and the events leading up to it. And if so what is it?

443 upvotes • slowryd3r

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Being sent to work in a Roman mill was up there with being whipping and being placed in fetters in terms of potential punishments for slaves, according to Messenio, a character created by the Roman playwright Plautus. The mines I understand, but a mill? What was bad about mills?

443 upvotes • RusticBohemian

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How did Churchill lose the 1945 after playing an instrumental role in winning the war?

443 upvotes • Suntzie

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Greek polytheism survived in small communities in the Byzantine Empire up to the 11th century. What would Greek polytheism have looked like by the time of its last few generations of followers?

443 upvotes • SpecificLanguage1465

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If I were to find myself in Castile in 1516 with 30kg of pepper, how well would I live?

442 upvotes • bargaho

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I am a man of wealth in Han China, would I be able to buy olive oil that came from the Roman Empire, or did olive oil not reach that far down the silk road.

442 upvotes • Cerveza_por_favor

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What was society like in Arab Spain? Was the European lifestyle left more or less intact, while Islamic culture was left to the leading minority? How much bilingualism and intermarriage was there? Did villagers even know or care that their country was ruled by Muslims?

442 upvotes • Shakedown_1979

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Did everybody "smell bad" in the in the medieval period?

442 upvotes • [deleted]

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Musashi Miyamoto, greatest samurai that ever lived or an over-rated cheater?

442 upvotes • TylerX5

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Title	Upvotes	Author	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
What did people in the Middle Ages think of static electricity?	443	Mr_man769
Does the Chinese government have any official statement/story regarding the Tiananmen square massacre and the events leading up to it. And if so what is it?	443	slowryd3r
Being sent to work in a Roman mill was up there with being whipping and being placed in fetters in terms of potential punishments for slaves, according to Messenio, a character created by the Roman playwright Plautus. The mines I understand, but a mill? What was bad about mills?	443	RusticBohemian
How did Churchill lose the 1945 after playing an instrumental role in winning the war?	443	Suntzie
Greek polytheism survived in small communities in the Byzantine Empire up to the 11th century. What would Greek polytheism have looked like by the time of its last few generations of followers?	443	SpecificLanguage1465
If I were to find myself in Castile in 1516 with 30kg of pepper, how well would I live?	442	bargaho
I am a man of wealth in Han China, would I be able to buy olive oil that came from the Roman Empire, or did olive oil not reach that far down the silk road.	442	Cerveza_por_favor
What was society like in Arab Spain? Was the European lifestyle left more or less intact, while Islamic culture was left to the leading minority? How much bilingualism and intermarriage was there? Did villagers even know or care that their country was ruled by Muslims?	442	Shakedown_1979
Did everybody "smell bad" in the in the medieval period?	442	[deleted]
Musashi Miyamoto, greatest samurai that ever lived or an over-rated cheater?	442	TylerX5