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It's said that Diogenes the Cynic lived either in a large jar or a tub. What exactly would his dwelling have looked like? Where was it located, and why did no one mind that he'd claimed it for himself?
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What sort of ships did Augustus use for his Red Sea fleet and India/Ethiopia/China trade, and how would they have differed from what was used in the Mediterranean and Atlantic?
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Beans & other legumes were extremely common foods, historically. Did most cultures soak and/or sprout them before cooking and consuming them?
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The Chinese built thousands of miles of canals, dams, dikes, and other water infrastructure in the premodern era in part of tame the floods that regularly ravaged the country. Did any of this really work?
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People plunged their arms into cauldrons of boiling water to snatch up stones in the middle ages as a way of proving their innocence. Many historians report people coming away without severe burns. How did this work?
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Do the exhumed bodies of medieval European peasants have smaller bones, or do they show different signs of disease/ old age, or any other differences compared to their noble-born counterparts?
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Ulysses S Grant negated or overruled president Andrew Johnson's attempt to strip rights from newly freed slaves and leave them defenseless. How did he wield so much power as an unelected general?
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How much would it cost the fully excavate and preserve the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum? Given the potential goldmine of artifacts and lost texts it contains, why haven't the excavations moved forward after so much time?
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