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I noticed that an ancient statue of the head of Alexander the great looks almost exactly the same like the statue of the head of Helios of greek mythology. What is the connection? Was one modeled after the other? Was it a coincidence? What did people make of it?

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Why did the ancient Greeks recede from eating beans?

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Why did the Portuguese colonial empire in the Americas become a single country after gaining independence. While the Spanish empire in the Americas didn't?

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Did any of the Berber peoples of North Africa ever write their language in Arabic Alphabet?

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Timer defeated the ottomans at the battle of Ankara and took the ottoman Sultan Bayezid I as a prisoner of war. How did Europe react to this?

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Why couldn't the Romans conquer the Iranians after centuries of war while Alexander manged to do so against the most powerful of their empires in one conquest?

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Why did Ibn al-Haytham fail in building a dam to stop the Nile from flooding? Was the dam ever built at some point in history?

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Is it true that the ancient Egyptians were the first that clapped to show appreciation?

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How did Samuel Wilson become Uncle Sam? And how did the painting become so popular that it became a national personification of the United States and it is government?

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Did the Incas know where the Spaniards come from? Did they at least the Atlantic ocean existed on the eastern side of the continent?

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I noticed that an ancient statue of the head of Alexander the great looks almost exactly the same like the statue of the head of Helios of greek mythology. What is the connection? Was one modeled after the other? Was it a coincidence? What did people make of it?	17
Why did the ancient Greeks recede from eating beans?	14
Why did the Portuguese colonial empire in the Americas become a single country after gaining independence. While the Spanish empire in the Americas didn't?	14
Did any of the Berber peoples of North Africa ever write their language in Arabic Alphabet?	11
Timer defeated the ottomans at the battle of Ankara and took the ottoman Sultan Bayezid I as a prisoner of war. How did Europe react to this?	10
Why couldn't the Romans conquer the Iranians after centuries of war while Alexander manged to do so against the most powerful of their empires in one conquest?	7
Why did Ibn al-Haytham fail in building a dam to stop the Nile from flooding? Was the dam ever built at some point in history?	6
Is it true that the ancient Egyptians were the first that clapped to show appreciation?	6
How did Samuel Wilson become Uncle Sam? And how did the painting become so popular that it became a national personification of the United States and it is government?	5
Did the Incas know where the Spaniards come from? Did they at least the Atlantic ocean existed on the eastern side of the continent?	5