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What is the explanation for this "rhyming" tradition in scholarly work that keeps appearing is cultures across times and palces?

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I have heard of two or three different big debts the UK acquired centuries ago and only finished paying in the 2000s. Is this true?

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Is it true that some of the first eye glasses were contact lenses made of glass?

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Can we say, with any degree of confidence, that languages written right to left were invented by left handed people and languages written left to right were invented by right handed people?

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Did Tutankhamun masturbate into the Nile?

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Why didn't the Founding Fathers of the USA try to come up with a normal name for their country?

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Where the hittite treaties before the Treaty of Kadesh?

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Garfield, Peanuts, Calvin and Hobbs, Mafalda, Jucika... There are many examples of characters from newspaper comics that became famous internationally, and yet, I don't know of any Japanese characters that started in newspaper comics. Why?

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The Persia-Anatolia combo

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Why did most people that conquered Persia retained the Satrap system?

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What is the explanation for this "rhyming" tradition in scholarly work that keeps appearing is cultures across times and palces?	0
I have heard of two or three different big debts the UK acquired centuries ago and only finished paying in the 2000s. Is this true?	0
Is it true that some of the first eye glasses were contact lenses made of glass?	0
Can we say, with any degree of confidence, that languages written right to left were invented by left handed people and languages written left to right were invented by right handed people?	0
Did Tutankhamun masturbate into the Nile?	0
Why didn't the Founding Fathers of the USA try to come up with a normal name for their country?	0
Where the hittite treaties before the Treaty of Kadesh?	0
Garfield, Peanuts, Calvin and Hobbs, Mafalda, Jucika... There are many examples of characters from newspaper comics that became famous internationally, and yet, I don't know of any Japanese characters that started in newspaper comics. Why?	0
The Persia-Anatolia combo	0
Why did most people that conquered Persia retained the Satrap system?	0