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Today, when we break up with our partner, it's common to delete their photos from phone/social media to forget. How did people treat photos of their partners after break up back when digital camera wasn't common?
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"The Dutch East India Company (VOC) is the first multinational corporation." Is this statement accurate or anachronistic?
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When his son died from a plague in 14th century, Ibn Abi Hajalah considered his death as a martyrdom (shaheed), the most benevolent death among Muslims at that time. Why? How was plague and death from plague perceived at that time?
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Who did the household chores of those male philosophers? E.g. dishwashing, doing laundry, or cleaning their baby's poop. Did they ever write anything about it?
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Gamal Nasser, Josip Broz Tito, U Nu, Sukarno, Kwame Nkrumah... why do anti-colonial political leaders tend to develop a huge cult of personality after their countries gain independence?
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In modern countries this century, political science recognizes three actors involved in power interplay: state, market, and civil society. Who were these actors in the long period of Roman Empire?
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How comparable is the notion of China as -the- civilization or the center of the world in ancient times, to the Roman notion of orbis terrarum (and later, oikoumene)?
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For male philosophers, who did their household chores like dishwashing, doing laundry, or even cleaning their baby's poop? Did they ever discuss anything about it?
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Kingdom of Aksum, now in Ethiopia, was one of the earliest empire to adopt Christianity. What did Europeans think when they first discovered this?
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