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Was Johnny Cash the first US citizen to hear that Joseph Stalin was dead?

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What are the most impactful/important pieces of knowledge about Classical Antiquity that a well-read person in 2023 would have access to, that a well-read European person in the 1750s would not have had access to?

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How did the agenda item of Champagne (the drink) form part of the Treaty of Versailles?

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In the 1890s, Arthur Conan Doyle in his Sherlock Holmes' works described Moriarty as the "Napoleon of Crime". How would this phrase have been received by its contemporary British audience, in terms of how Napoleon was viewed at that time?

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At what point in pre-modern History and in what ways were there conceptions of nutrition that we would recognize as being relatively similar to our modern ones?

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Today, in the Western context, there are often considered to have been eight numbered crusades to the Holy Land. Who decided on this numbering, and when was this numbering formalized/popularized? Furthermore, what distinguishes a numbered crusade from a minor "non-numbered" one?

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When would an average person have first been able to buy and assemble a personal computer out of the same major constituent components that are used today, and what might the technical specs of those components have been?

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Was Johnny Cash the first US citizen to hear that Joseph Stalin was dead?	1720
What are the most impactful/important pieces of knowledge about Classical Antiquity that a well-read person in 2023 would have access to, that a well-read European person in the 1750s would not have had access to?	127
How did the agenda item of Champagne (the drink) form part of the Treaty of Versailles?	42
In the 1890s, Arthur Conan Doyle in his Sherlock Holmes' works described Moriarty as the "Napoleon of Crime". How would this phrase have been received by its contemporary British audience, in terms of how Napoleon was viewed at that time?	24
At what point in pre-modern History and in what ways were there conceptions of nutrition that we would recognize as being relatively similar to our modern ones?	11
Today, in the Western context, there are often considered to have been eight numbered crusades to the Holy Land. Who decided on this numbering, and when was this numbering formalized/popularized? Furthermore, what distinguishes a numbered crusade from a minor "non-numbered" one?	7
When would an average person have first been able to buy and assemble a personal computer out of the same major constituent components that are used today, and what might the technical specs of those components have been?	1