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What happened to ethnic restaurants (Italian, French, etc) in Nazi Germany? Were they all shut down to homogenize German cuisine or were they still allowed to operate?	5
When germs were first discovered and knowledge that they cause people to become sick became common, were there what we would call "germaphobes" at that time? If so, were there any famous "germaphobes" and how far did they go to make sure they didn't "have germs".	5
I've never found an explanation as to why Herodotus refers to the entire of the Southern Levant as Palestine. Can anyone help?	5
Even though a sizable number of Samaritans participated in the Bar Kochba Revolt against the Romans, Samaritan cities were largely left alone unlike their Judean counterparts whose cities were destroyed. Why was this?	5
How did the average Roman citizen react to the Bar Kochba Revolt considering the massive amount of Roman military mobilization and casualties?	5
What were German and Austrian relations like immediately following World War II both on a diplomatic level and on a citizen to citizen level?	5
How did the average American feel about Emperor Hirohito retaining the throne after World War II ended?	5
Was it common for merchants in ancient times to be elevated to diplomatic positions in government since they would have travelled to different countries and know different languages and cultures?	5
Halloween became mainstream around the beginning of the 20th century, the same time as the rise of Temperance Movement and other religiously motivated movements. Was there any kind of large religious movement against Halloween at that time?	4
How did the average Greek, especially when under Roman occupation, feel about the Romans so very clearly repurposing Greek deities into Roman deities?	4

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