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I know about famous Allied entertainers during World War II, like the Andrews Sisters and Vera Lynn. Did the Axis have similar performers?

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Were Jewish merchants allowed to temporarily visit England even when they weren't allowed to live there during the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance?

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Did societies like Carthage, Gaul, Britain, etc., experience lasting hardship after the Roman conquests?

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Heritability of Roman citizenship if one parent was a citizen and the other wasn't?

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How integrated was Caledonia into the Iron Age's broader Celtic trade network? I've mainly heard about the trade between Gaul and southern Britain.

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How did women's standing in the Hellenistic era differ from archaic and classical Greece?

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Do we know for sure that Nabu-sharrussu-ukin (Nebusarsekim in Hebrew), mentioned on a Neo-Babylonian tablet and in the Book of Jeremiah, was a eunuch?

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How and why did racist pseudoscience shift from favouring people of the Caucasus (hence "Caucasian") in the 18th and 19th centuries, to favouring people of Europe's northern Germanic regions by the early 20th century?

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How and why did the Ottoman court develop a system of racial segregation among its eunuchs, with East Africans serving the harem and Balkan Europeans (enslaved through the devşirme) serving other courtly functions like at the Palace School?

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When is the earliest contemporaneous mention of Sparta's agoge system?

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I know about famous Allied entertainers during World War II, like the Andrews Sisters and Vera Lynn. Did the Axis have similar performers?	17
Were Jewish merchants allowed to temporarily visit England even when they weren't allowed to live there during the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance?	17
Did societies like Carthage, Gaul, Britain, etc., experience lasting hardship after the Roman conquests?	16
Heritability of Roman citizenship if one parent was a citizen and the other wasn't?	14
How integrated was Caledonia into the Iron Age's broader Celtic trade network? I've mainly heard about the trade between Gaul and southern Britain.	13
How did women's standing in the Hellenistic era differ from archaic and classical Greece?	12
Do we know for sure that Nabu-sharrussu-ukin (Nebusarsekim in Hebrew), mentioned on a Neo-Babylonian tablet and in the Book of Jeremiah, was a eunuch?	11
How and why did racist pseudoscience shift from favouring people of the Caucasus (hence "Caucasian") in the 18th and 19th centuries, to favouring people of Europe's northern Germanic regions by the early 20th century?	10
How and why did the Ottoman court develop a system of racial segregation among its eunuchs, with East Africans serving the harem and Balkan Europeans (enslaved through the devşirme) serving other courtly functions like at the Palace School?	9
When is the earliest contemporaneous mention of Sparta's agoge system?	9