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Did any native americans actually make the "War Woop" aka "wawawawa" noise?

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Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Premature Burial" was about a dude with "catalepsy" (narcolepsy) getting accidentally burred alive. Did this really happen to people back in the mid-1800's?

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Were there melee soldiers or ranged soldiers in European armies in the middle ages?

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Why was the Spanish Empire overtaken as the world's greatest superpower and leader in international commerce?

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Did any native americans actually make the "War Woop" aka "wawawawa" noise?	178
Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Premature Burial" was about a dude with "catalepsy" (narcolepsy) getting accidentally burred alive. Did this really happen to people back in the mid-1800's?	11
Were there melee soldiers or ranged soldiers in European armies in the middle ages?	3
Why was the Spanish Empire overtaken as the world's greatest superpower and leader in international commerce?	2