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How do I join a trebuchet crew in late medieval France? Is it a family thing, are there interviews? What are some of the risks and benefits of my new career that are maybe less known?	5367
Shirtless, disheveled Barbarians: Romans are often painted as disciplined, ingenious, structured. Were Gauls just chaotic skirmishers all their history or did they sometimes surpass the Romans in terms of discipline and combat rigor? Were they sometimes more ingenious than the Romans?	530
If Jesus was a carpenter, what kind of thing would he build ? What were the lives and of carpenters in the Levant around the first century ?	111
Is French Canadian poverty really just a myth for English Canadian historians? An Anglo friend told me that, while it’s a common narrative in Québec, it’s still just considered a myth or an exaggeration for them. Please enlighten me ? Thanks !	87
I’m a typical mother in the late medieval France. Do I put some kind of diapers? How do I carry, dress or feed the baby? Is it normal for me to take long walks to calm him? Will I be alone in this ordeal, or do husband and family come and help? Do I share the workload, daycare-like? Thanks!	81
The Franco-Prussian is often represented on the internet as an easy win. Is this how it’s viewed by historians? Did the French forces not put a real fight?	55
East European Knights and Power : I once read here that their lives and roles -- and the idea of feodality as a whole -- were drastically different than in the West. How so ? Did it change greatly over time ?	53
Montréal's new controversy: the political class says that Montréal is a non-ceded Mohawk territory, but historians write in the papers that it isn't exactly how it played out. Can you help me sort out the story behind all this? Thanks!	51
Many Sengoku era warlords still have descendants today. Did any of those families tried to gain, retain or use their power in the 20th century?	28
Americans and Canadians seem to share a similar view of what a stereotypical lumberjack looks. How did that happen?	27

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