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Did any other pre-Columbian Mesoamerican groups make use of the eagle eating a snake motif other than the Mexica and Epiclassic Jaliscans?

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How were peopled buried in Formative period Oaxaca? What goods, if any, were buried with them?

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Did other Mesoamerican peoples produce Pseudo-cloisonné vessels other than Epiclassic Jaliscans?

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What is the oldest record of Polydactyly in humans? Does this trait stretch back into prehistory?

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What are the roots of the children's rhyme "cheater, cheater pumpkin eater"?

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How was Andrew Ryan able to gather so many people and resources to build Rapture without gaining any country's attention?

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Do the libraries at Timbuktu (or other places in North Africa) have histories of the region or other regions of Africa? How accessible are these histories? And how do they compare to Western historical (or even archaeological) accounts on the same topic?

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In "Jungle of Stone", William Carlsen mentions that Frederick Catherwood traveled in Egypt with a seven barrel pistol in 1832 to deter thieves. Was a pistol like this common in 1832? Was it custom made? What would such a pistol actually look like?

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Just how likely is it that Cyprus' Greek Iron Age kingdoms were founded by Greek warriors coming back from the Trojan War?

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Should we consider the ethnohistorical account of Ñamlap's great flotilla of balsas rafts that sailed to northern Peru to established a new polity in the Lambayeque Valley as anything other than mytho-historic? What lines of evidence supports this origin of the Lambayeque culture?

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Did any other pre-Columbian Mesoamerican groups make use of the eagle eating a snake motif other than the Mexica and Epiclassic Jaliscans?	4
How were peopled buried in Formative period Oaxaca? What goods, if any, were buried with them?	4
Did other Mesoamerican peoples produce Pseudo-cloisonné vessels other than Epiclassic Jaliscans?	4
What is the oldest record of Polydactyly in humans? Does this trait stretch back into prehistory?	4
What are the roots of the children's rhyme "cheater, cheater pumpkin eater"?	4
How was Andrew Ryan able to gather so many people and resources to build Rapture without gaining any country's attention?	4
Do the libraries at Timbuktu (or other places in North Africa) have histories of the region or other regions of Africa? How accessible are these histories? And how do they compare to Western historical (or even archaeological) accounts on the same topic?	4
In "Jungle of Stone", William Carlsen mentions that Frederick Catherwood traveled in Egypt with a seven barrel pistol in 1832 to deter thieves. Was a pistol like this common in 1832? Was it custom made? What would such a pistol actually look like?	4
Just how likely is it that Cyprus' Greek Iron Age kingdoms were founded by Greek warriors coming back from the Trojan War?	4
Should we consider the ethnohistorical account of Ñamlap's great flotilla of balsas rafts that sailed to northern Peru to established a new polity in the Lambayeque Valley as anything other than mytho-historic? What lines of evidence supports this origin of the Lambayeque culture?	4