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How did the average European citizen in the 1490s react to the discovery of the Americas?

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How important and relevant were birthdays to the pre-modern Western world?

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Are there know instances of Medieval Europeans employing 'actual' 'magic' in war, such as rituals for favorable weather or 'enchantments' on armor similar to Eastern cultures?

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A portrait of Henry VII Tudor of England in 1505 shows him with a very asymmetrical face and distorted eye, not matching the other in size or position; is he known to have had some kind of deformity, injury, or disease of the bones, was he simply weird looking, or is this just a bad painting?

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Are there known instances of Hellenic polytheists venerating remains or artifacts attributed to demigods or apotheosized heroes?

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Did anyone in the Roman Empire attempt to make a syncretic or reconciled version of Christianity in accordance with the Interpretatio Graeca?

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How is it that so shortly after the Covenanters and Restoration of the Stuart's, Scottish identity and patriotism became so immediately and closely associated with the return of the Catholic Jacobites?

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What are some of the oldest continuously accounted for pieces of art?

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Are there any significant works of sculpture that historians have established an exact, detailed lineage for all the way back to the Classical World?

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Are there any giant gaps in history?

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Title	Upvotes	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
How did the average European citizen in the 1490s react to the discovery of the Americas?	4794
How important and relevant were birthdays to the pre-modern Western world?	32
Are there know instances of Medieval Europeans employing 'actual' 'magic' in war, such as rituals for favorable weather or 'enchantments' on armor similar to Eastern cultures?	30
A portrait of Henry VII Tudor of England in 1505 shows him with a very asymmetrical face and distorted eye, not matching the other in size or position; is he known to have had some kind of deformity, injury, or disease of the bones, was he simply weird looking, or is this just a bad painting?	16
Are there known instances of Hellenic polytheists venerating remains or artifacts attributed to demigods or apotheosized heroes?	14
Did anyone in the Roman Empire attempt to make a syncretic or reconciled version of Christianity in accordance with the Interpretatio Graeca?	8
How is it that so shortly after the Covenanters and Restoration of the Stuart's, Scottish identity and patriotism became so immediately and closely associated with the return of the Catholic Jacobites?	4
What are some of the oldest continuously accounted for pieces of art?	3
Are there any significant works of sculpture that historians have established an exact, detailed lineage for all the way back to the Classical World?	3
Are there any giant gaps in history?	3