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How essential was Spanish involvement in clearing forts along the Mississippi to the war effort during the American War of Independence?

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How did fudge become a common staple for touristy towns in the United States?

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Why does cooked cabbage turn blue when it cools down but turns back to red when you reheat it?

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

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

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How essential was Spanish involvement in clearing forts along the Mississippi to the war effort during the American War of Independence?	5	AskHistorians
How did fudge become a common staple for touristy towns in the United States?	5	AskHistorians
Why does cooked cabbage turn blue when it cools down but turns back to red when you reheat it?	4	askscience
What are the roots of the children's rhyme "cheater, cheater pumpkin eater"?	4	AskHistorians
How was Andrew Ryan able to gather so many people and resources to build Rapture without gaining any country's attention?	4	AskHistorians
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	AskHistorians
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	AskHistorians
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	AskHistorians
What is the oldest record of Polydactyly in humans? Does this trait stretch back into prehistory?	4	AskHistorians
Did other Mesoamerican peoples produce Pseudo-cloisonné vessels other than Epiclassic Jaliscans?	4	AskHistorians