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Monte Testaccio in Rome is a man-made hill consisting of over 50 million discarded wine amphorae. As far as I know, "Roman Fever" was actually Malaria. Was Monte Testaccio a major breeding spot for mosquito-borne diseases in Ancient Rome?	1154
Lisbon / Seville were raided by Vikings in 844. Elsewhere, in the East, the Vikings were settling in what is current-day Ukraine. What was happening in Scandinavia to allow for this? And why were the Norsemen back in Roman times not doing anything remotely similar to what the Vikings did later on?	342
Why was the Republic of China given a permanent seat in the UNSC back in 1945? You would expect that the other members would be opposed to expanding the seats unless really required: why did the other 4 members support RoC's permanent membership?	216
Apparently Russia sent a ship built in 1912 to salvage the Moskva cruiser recently sank in the Black Sea. How much of the "Kommuna" salvage ship's parts can actually be traced back to 1912? And why would a ship be kept for so long?	91
How much Portuguese was the 'Spanish Armada'? Do we know how many of the 136 ships were actually Portuguese?	44
Starting in 1640, the Portuguese monarchs stopped using crowns and there were no longer coronation cerimonies. Why was that? And were there any other similar approaches to coronation elsewhere in Europe?	21
Just watched a video of the Brazilian anthem being sung in different indigenous Brazilian languages and I couldn't help but think the languages sounded Asian at times. In light of the recent human migration to America, is there such a thing as an "equivalent" to Proto Indo European in the continent?	2
Why did Ancient Mesopotamians and Persians build "round cities"? And is there any actual archeological evidence of this? Aren't there any other "round cities" found anywhere else on Earth?	1

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