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Everyone I know regards the board game Monopoly as frustrating and long. But almost every family owns the game. How did it become such a popular and universal board game?
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Since 1215, the Catholic Church has banned consanguinity to the fourth degree. Several hundred years later, the Catholic Habsburgs would go against this rule multiple times, to the extent of marrrying nieces. What enabled the Habsburgs to get away with this for so long? How did the church react?
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How did ancient Romans consult the Sibylline Books? Did they randomly pick a section? Was it sorted by topic?
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How did Khrushchev's 1956 'Secret Speech' affect the communist parties in the west? Was there a mass exodus in some parties? How did the political leadership react? And what would western members have known about the human rights abuses of the Soviet Union before this speech?
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Would Shakespeare and his contempories have slept sitting up? If so, how widespread was it across Western Europe and did it change?
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How were African Americans, Native Americans and other ethnic minorities affected by Prohibition? To what extent did they support it?
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How did the daily life of the enslaved change with the outbreak of the American Civil War (before they were freed)?
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Did Romans (let us say c. 285 BC-272 CE) ever show an honor code towards their (free) enemies from outside their empire? Did their enemies' honor codes ever have things in common with them?
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