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What did Ashkenazim eat during Passover before the Colombian exchange, and how did that change as food systems globalized?

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How difficult was it to go back to Europe as an early colonial in North America? Could a trapper or a trader in the early 1600s just wait for a boat and ask for a ride?

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What do we actually know about the role of elite women in ancient Celtic/British societies? The Boudicas and Cartimanduas?

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I am an ancient Greek farmer in Boeotia and there is a Dryad inhabiting my oak tree. Am I supposed to do anything or should I just leave the tree alone?

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Was Soviet industrial policy ever capable of providing for its populace?

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How did the practice of wandering/circuit judges vary across time and geography in the Middle Ages?

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“The first known agricultural show [or county fair] was held by Salford Agricultural Society, Lancashire, in 1768.” What sorts of games, scams, and cheap novelties might have been present at the first county fair or its 19th century successors?

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Presentism vs Historical Representation of Gay Men: the case of Alexander con Humboldt

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The people of classical antiquity had very different cultural conceptions of nudity than we do today - but what were those conceptions?

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What did Ashkenazim eat during Passover before the Colombian exchange, and how did that change as food systems globalized?	298
How difficult was it to go back to Europe as an early colonial in North America? Could a trapper or a trader in the early 1600s just wait for a boat and ask for a ride?	223
What do we actually know about the role of elite women in ancient Celtic/British societies? The Boudicas and Cartimanduas?	123
I am an ancient Greek farmer in Boeotia and there is a Dryad inhabiting my oak tree. Am I supposed to do anything or should I just leave the tree alone?	47
Was Soviet industrial policy ever capable of providing for its populace?	12
How did the practice of wandering/circuit judges vary across time and geography in the Middle Ages?	8
“The first known agricultural show [or county fair] was held by Salford Agricultural Society, Lancashire, in 1768.” What sorts of games, scams, and cheap novelties might have been present at the first county fair or its 19th century successors?	6
Presentism vs Historical Representation of Gay Men: the case of Alexander con Humboldt	6
The people of classical antiquity had very different cultural conceptions of nudity than we do today - but what were those conceptions?	5