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Nowadays, when making a sizeable trip, it takes a good amount of reading: road signs, train tables, etc. How did rising literacy change the way people move across their own countries and beyond?

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Do we know what Native Americans thought of dinosaur bones (if they saw any)?

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I'm a young feudal lord who has freshly inherited his father's estate. I'm unmarried, but there's a problem: I don't fancy women. Could I expect a life of "celibacy", or would people around me manage to pressure me enough to marry?

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I was looking through papal Bulls (as one does) and one caught my attention. In Audi Filia et, the pope specifically chastises the queen of Cyprus for her unchaste ways. Did the pope really get involved in individual ruler personal lives, or was it more of an example for something more general?

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Ramesses II had more than two hundred children. Do we know what they ever became? More generally, what was the life of the presumably many children of a pharaoh who did not inherit the throne?

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During the Cold War, what was the history of inter-block academic relations? Would a lab based in Moscow have access to papers published from say the MIT or Paris in the 60s? How about later, in the 70s or 80s?

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The Dead Sea scrolls were unearthed in the mid 20th century. Have there been similar finds of ancient Abrahamic texts before? What have been / would have been the general reaction to such a find in, say, the medieval period, when scholarship and organised religion were more closely intertwined?

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What was the perception, if any, of Ancient Egypt in the Medieval muslim world?

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Reading through Papal Bulls, between the 13th and 15th centuries many of them concern the Jews. What was the relationship between the Catholic Church and Jews in Europe during that time?

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Before the discovery of the immune system, how were allergies medically explained?

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Nowadays, when making a sizeable trip, it takes a good amount of reading: road signs, train tables, etc. How did rising literacy change the way people move across their own countries and beyond?	2135	AskHistorians
Do we know what Native Americans thought of dinosaur bones (if they saw any)?	597	AskHistorians
I'm a young feudal lord who has freshly inherited his father's estate. I'm unmarried, but there's a problem: I don't fancy women. Could I expect a life of "celibacy", or would people around me manage to pressure me enough to marry?	264	AskHistorians
I was looking through papal Bulls (as one does) and one caught my attention. In Audi Filia et, the pope specifically chastises the queen of Cyprus for her unchaste ways. Did the pope really get involved in individual ruler personal lives, or was it more of an example for something more general?	148	AskHistorians
Ramesses II had more than two hundred children. Do we know what they ever became? More generally, what was the life of the presumably many children of a pharaoh who did not inherit the throne?	62	AskHistorians
During the Cold War, what was the history of inter-block academic relations? Would a lab based in Moscow have access to papers published from say the MIT or Paris in the 60s? How about later, in the 70s or 80s?	53	AskHistorians
The Dead Sea scrolls were unearthed in the mid 20th century. Have there been similar finds of ancient Abrahamic texts before? What have been / would have been the general reaction to such a find in, say, the medieval period, when scholarship and organised religion were more closely intertwined?	32	AskHistorians
What was the perception, if any, of Ancient Egypt in the Medieval muslim world?	19	AskHistorians
Reading through Papal Bulls, between the 13th and 15th centuries many of them concern the Jews. What was the relationship between the Catholic Church and Jews in Europe during that time?	19	AskHistorians
Before the discovery of the immune system, how were allergies medically explained?	18	AskHistorians