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Carl Jung in his "Psychology and Religion" says that, during WWI, there were sporadic sacrifices to Wotan by the youth in Germany. Did this really happen?	370
What would it have been like to go to the library of Alexandria in its heyday?	133
Louisiana State Senator Elbert Guillory recently claimed that scientists burned "heretics" for disagreeing with then-accepted science. Was there ever an instance, even ONE, when the scientific community burned or otherwise punished a "heretic"?	121
[Meta] Would it be possible to run a weekly thread cataloguing unanswered questions?	93
Carl Jung in his "Psychology and Religion" says that, during WWI, there were sporadic sacrifices to Wotan by the youth in Germany. Did this really happen?	60
The Battle of Mons in WWI was purported to be a successful retreat only thanks to angelic or ghostly aid. This event is highly mythologized, later even connected to St. George and the Dragon by Arthur Machen. Is there a definitive text on the mythologization?	32
Prince Humperdink was found mutilated in his bedchamber. The popular story is that the Dread Pirate Roberts did this to him. Is there any evidence for that? Why would Roberts have it out for him?	29
Has a presidential hopeful ever carried their home state so handily in a nomination contest that no other candidate received delegates? If so, did that candidate go on to be nominee or president?	20
In "Bridge of Spies," the Russian courtroom erupts in applause at the reading of the verdict. Was this due to actual pleasure at the result, or was it coerced? More broadly, was there an expectation that Soviet citizens applaud public court decisions like this?	10
[Book Recommendation] On Early Church History and the Canonization of Scripture	3

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