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The UK's Landmark Trust a nonprofit that refurbishes neglected historic buildings and rents them out, Airbnb Style, to pay for their upkeep. Does the US need a similar foundation to save historic buildings, or are we too new of a nation to have a large stock of abandoned/neglected homes?
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Was early modern architecture driven in part by a desire to have easy-to clean, airy, and sunny places to live after the horrific 1918 flu pandemic?
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Why did Neoplatonists largely supplant the Stoics, Cynics, Epicureans, and other philosophical schools during the 3rd-5th centuries?
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I want to build a palatial home on the Palatine Hill in Rome in 50 B.C.. There are thousands of itinerant free Roman citizens I can hire. Are they competing with for-rent slave builders? If so, why might I hire free men instead of slaves?
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Is there any truth to the claim that reconstruction failed because newly elected black politicans were corrupt and/or incompetent?
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Marrying cousins is taboo. Did the Catholic Church play a roll in stigmatizing marriage within kinship groups? Did this restructure western society toward an indivualistic orientation?
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I've heard the Theater of Dionysus in Athens called the world's first theater. Is this a fair claim?
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