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[WP] Tell the complete story of a toy from the sourcing and manufacture of its base materials to the eventual destruction and disintegration of all its parts (possibly over millions or billions of years)

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In most of medieval Europe there were laws that prevented common people from carrying swords inside cities, but that changed in the 16th century when it quickly became very common for men to carry around swords. Why is that?

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[WP] You live on Penny Lane. A fireman rushes in from inpouring rain. It's very strange.

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Why do some historians completely dismiss the Iliad and Homeric epics as having any historical basis?

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[WP] A medieval soldier returns home after many years fighting in war. He is sick of the horrors of war and expects to find his old village the happy and prosperous it was when he ran away as a boy, but instead finds it has been as badly damaged by war as he has and hardly anyone remembers him.

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Is there actually any evidence that the French cut off two fingers from captured English longbowmen during the Hundred Years' War and this is what gave rise to the modern V sign as a gesture of defiance/victory or peace?

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Is it really a myth that most people thought the world was flat in 1492? If so, why? Was the average person capable of easily understanding proofs for something so counterintuitive?

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Could a medieval knight with full plate armor in the 14th-15th century take it off by themselves?

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I notice that paintings became first became highly impressionistic and abstract in the mid-19th century. Am I right in thinking there is a connection between that and the widespread use of photography?

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How old was Spartacus?

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[WP] Tell the complete story of a toy from the sourcing and manufacture of its base materials to the eventual destruction and disintegration of all its parts (possibly over millions or billions of years)	7	WritingPrompts
In most of medieval Europe there were laws that prevented common people from carrying swords inside cities, but that changed in the 16th century when it quickly became very common for men to carry around swords. Why is that?	7	AskHistorians
[WP] You live on Penny Lane. A fireman rushes in from inpouring rain. It's very strange.	7	WritingPrompts
Why do some historians completely dismiss the Iliad and Homeric epics as having any historical basis?	6	AskHistorians
[WP] A medieval soldier returns home after many years fighting in war. He is sick of the horrors of war and expects to find his old village the happy and prosperous it was when he ran away as a boy, but instead finds it has been as badly damaged by war as he has and hardly anyone remembers him.	6	WritingPrompts
Is there actually any evidence that the French cut off two fingers from captured English longbowmen during the Hundred Years' War and this is what gave rise to the modern V sign as a gesture of defiance/victory or peace?	6	AskHistorians
Is it really a myth that most people thought the world was flat in 1492? If so, why? Was the average person capable of easily understanding proofs for something so counterintuitive?	6	AskHistorians
Could a medieval knight with full plate armor in the 14th-15th century take it off by themselves?	6	AskHistorians
I notice that paintings became first became highly impressionistic and abstract in the mid-19th century. Am I right in thinking there is a connection between that and the widespread use of photography?	6	AskHistorians
How old was Spartacus?	6	AskHistorians