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Where did HP Lovecraft come up with the idea of Cthulhu? It doesn't look like anything in ancient Greek or Roman mythology so did he have another origin for it?
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In James Clavell's Shogun, there is a scene where a 'woman of pleasure' shows the protagonist sex toys including cock rings, dildoes and anal beads. In reality, were sex toys prevalent in seventeenth-century Japan?
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AskHistorians is now on Facebook, showcasing excellent (and eminently sharable) answers from this community!
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My bag of chips claims that purple potatoes were exclusively reserved for Incan kings. Is that true?
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I have always seen the Cossacks as a symbol of Russia, but between 1917 and 1933 the Soviet government followed a policy of "eliminate, exterminate, and deport" the Cossacks. Why did this happen? What would it have been like to be a Cossack at this time?
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Do we have any accounts from women or children on what it was like when a besieged city fell and how it affected their lives?
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