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Beer Steins have an assumed history of being made with lids in response to the Bubonic Plague. How true is this claim? What is the reason behind lids on steins?	3
Casual learner of military history throughout time -- is there a #1 military commander that we can definitively say did not succeed due to technological or other external factors and only their military genius alone? Does such a person and evidence exist?	2
When George Washington gave up the American Presidency was it genuinely to set the example of giving up power? How impactful and unique was such a decision at the time? For GW was it unprecedented at the time to do such a thing? Was it at all related to his personal desires around beingpublic figure	1
When feudal lords were gearing up for war, what was it like between arming the levies and an actual declaration of war? Wouldn't you get an advantage by prepping the levies, declare war, then be on their doorstep the next "day?" If so why did it take so long for professional soldiers to become comon	1
Why have communists always been able to mobilize the peasants? Can’t the opposition also mobilize peasants with their own education tactics?	0
How is judaism so pervasive despite history of persecution and no constant lands like orthodoxy or catholicism had around 900AD? Furthermore, having jerusalem populated with syrians/muslims. How did jewish culture stick around and not forcibly converted like the rest of europe or the world?	0
Within Viking culture/Danish/Norwegian, why do only some people have "Father'sName"son but their siblings do not? Ex: Bjorn Ironside vs Halfdan Ragnarsson vs Ubbe/Ubba	0

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