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Tax collection in the ancient to medieval to modern world?

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In Ninety-Three by Victor Hugo, the Breton nobleman Lantenac says this: "A man who knows how to read is embarassing." What does this mean?

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Why is it that there were Greens and Blues in Constantinople for the Hippodrome but no teams for the Colliseum in Rome?

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How did people deal with urban living environments when water was often untreated?

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Between digging a sewer system and just dumping waste out on the street, was there ever a middle ground where you kept the urban environment relatively clean without the hassle of excavating tunnels?

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Are there any significant people or events in history which we know very little about because few records of them survived?

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Before the invention of the refrigerator, how did restaurants and ready-to-eat food vendors keep their products from going bad?

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What is the grey fabric tube thing that some soldiers wear diagonally during the Napoleonic wars?

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Has there ever existed an autocracy which was less corrupt than modern democracies?

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Title	Upvotes	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
Tax collection in the ancient to medieval to modern world?	14
In Ninety-Three by Victor Hugo, the Breton nobleman Lantenac says this: "A man who knows how to read is embarassing." What does this mean?	13
Why is it that there were Greens and Blues in Constantinople for the Hippodrome but no teams for the Colliseum in Rome?	5
How did people deal with urban living environments when water was often untreated?	3
Between digging a sewer system and just dumping waste out on the street, was there ever a middle ground where you kept the urban environment relatively clean without the hassle of excavating tunnels?	2
Are there any significant people or events in history which we know very little about because few records of them survived?	1
Before the invention of the refrigerator, how did restaurants and ready-to-eat food vendors keep their products from going bad?	1
What is the grey fabric tube thing that some soldiers wear diagonally during the Napoleonic wars?	1
Has there ever existed an autocracy which was less corrupt than modern democracies?	1