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How do people cut their hair before being introduced to scissors?

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"Notes from the Underground" was written in response to "What Is to Be Done?" which itself was a response to "Fathers and Sons" which was also a response but to the growing nihilist movement at the time. Was this normal at the time?, is this how Russians did philosophy back then?, by writing novels?

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Were convents used as jails for misbehaved daughters?

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It's the classical age in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, what is stopping me and my friends from kidnapping a random traveler and selling them as slaves?

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How come both Spanish and English have words for "a meeting of witches" with entirely different origins? (Coven and Aquelarre)

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How did early communists and marxists see the fact that Jenny von Westphalen, Marx's wife, never abandoned her nobility titles and in fact inherited large sums fo money?

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It seems Erwin Schrödinger and his wife Anny were in an open marriage. How common was this back then?

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Religions in China seems to be distinctively non-theistic, is there a reason for this?

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I heard that shortly after Muhammed there was a prophet in Persia who claimed Muhammed's message was incomplete. Who was this prophet and what happened to his movement?

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Why did Babylon become less and less important until it was abandoned?

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How do people cut their hair before being introduced to scissors?	75	AskHistorians
"Notes from the Underground" was written in response to "What Is to Be Done?" which itself was a response to "Fathers and Sons" which was also a response but to the growing nihilist movement at the time. Was this normal at the time?, is this how Russians did philosophy back then?, by writing novels?	71	AskHistorians
Were convents used as jails for misbehaved daughters?	69	AskHistorians
It's the classical age in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, what is stopping me and my friends from kidnapping a random traveler and selling them as slaves?	69	AskHistorians
How come both Spanish and English have words for "a meeting of witches" with entirely different origins? (Coven and Aquelarre)	69	AskHistorians
How did early communists and marxists see the fact that Jenny von Westphalen, Marx's wife, never abandoned her nobility titles and in fact inherited large sums fo money?	68	AskHistorians
It seems Erwin Schrödinger and his wife Anny were in an open marriage. How common was this back then?	68	AskHistorians
Religions in China seems to be distinctively non-theistic, is there a reason for this?	67	AskHistorians
I heard that shortly after Muhammed there was a prophet in Persia who claimed Muhammed's message was incomplete. Who was this prophet and what happened to his movement?	66	AskHistorians
Why did Babylon become less and less important until it was abandoned?	62	AskHistorians