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What is the pH of the sun? How would one go about measuring it?

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When did use a printing press instead of hand drawn calligraphy become standard practice for the production of treaties.

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Anthropologist Serge Bouffard claims that when Donnacona died in France around 1539, he might have been buried in a mass grave of american natives in Rue des Andouilles. Were there enough native americans dying in the street s of Paris in 1539 to warrant their own mass graves?

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It seems that cheese was viewed as a base, vulgar and possibly unwholesome food during at least part of the Middle Ages. How did this attitude towards cheese come about, and how did it end?

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Why and how did the ancient Olympics cease? Are there any similarities with the shrinking list of countries interested in hosting the modern Olympics.

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More than a century has passed since the publication of Evan's "Scripta Minoea". What new insights have we developed since then into the structure, linguistics, and possible deciphering of Linear A?

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In precolumbian america, were chert and flint traded rough, already shaped into tools, or both?

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1 One bunch of big cats (Lions, etc.) has long tails while another (lynxes) has short tails. Is tail length adaptive for these groups and if so in what way?

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Why was the Chernobyl shield/arch designed the way it is?

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Why are there so few volcanic centers in the Himalaya, comparatively to other orogens such as the Andes, the Alps or the Rockies?

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What is the pH of the sun? How would one go about measuring it?	9	askscience
When did use a printing press instead of hand drawn calligraphy become standard practice for the production of treaties.	9	AskHistorians
Anthropologist Serge Bouffard claims that when Donnacona died in France around 1539, he might have been buried in a mass grave of american natives in Rue des Andouilles. Were there enough native americans dying in the street s of Paris in 1539 to warrant their own mass graves?	9	AskHistorians
It seems that cheese was viewed as a base, vulgar and possibly unwholesome food during at least part of the Middle Ages. How did this attitude towards cheese come about, and how did it end?	9	AskHistorians
Why and how did the ancient Olympics cease? Are there any similarities with the shrinking list of countries interested in hosting the modern Olympics.	8	AskHistorians
More than a century has passed since the publication of Evan's "Scripta Minoea". What new insights have we developed since then into the structure, linguistics, and possible deciphering of Linear A?	8	AskHistorians
In precolumbian america, were chert and flint traded rough, already shaped into tools, or both?	8	AskHistorians
1 One bunch of big cats (Lions, etc.) has long tails while another (lynxes) has short tails. Is tail length adaptive for these groups and if so in what way?	8	askscience
Why was the Chernobyl shield/arch designed the way it is?	8	askscience
Why are there so few volcanic centers in the Himalaya, comparatively to other orogens such as the Andes, the Alps or the Rockies?	7	askscience