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Ben Franklin's sister, Jane, only learned to write because Ben taught her the basics before he ran off at 17. I've heard that many women of the era could read the bible, but couldn't write. Is this accurate? Was it historically common to learn one but not the other?

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Hartford, CT is currently an unimpressive city that's practically deserted after 5 p.m. and on weekends. But Mark Twain loved it enough to settle there when it was a cultural and economic hotspot. What element of the city would have caught Twain's eye?

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Why was Tenochtitlan and other Mexica cities so much larger and more impressive than the grandest European cities the conquistadors had seen?

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Florence Nightingale was a hygiene and medical reformer. But the system of military medical care she was trying to fix was incredibly inept and mismanaged. Why did the British offer such dismal medical care and sanitation to their soldiers?

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"Caesar was the hero trying to fix a dysfunctional Republic and help the common people, and Brutus was the oligarchic villain who murdered him." — Was this inversional take on the modern despotic Caesar/republican martyr Brutus ever popular?

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Ancient elites seem way more "blingy" than is common today based on their grave goods. Were they like Mr. T, or just wanted to enter the afterlife with the option to be Mr. T?

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What did Epictetus's Roman "pretty boy" look like?

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Did ancient Athens have a raft of people affecting lisps and over-articulating words like children?

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American cuisine seems to have been meat centric from early on, and meat seems to have been affordable even to the poor. Why was it so much more ubiquitous than in many places in Europe where its inhabitants came from?

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The Greek writer Plutarch mocked ancient Greek religion/mythology, and yet served as a priest at the temple of Apollo at Delphi. What should we make of this arrangement? Was this sort of worship combined with lampooning common?

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Ben Franklin's sister, Jane, only learned to write because Ben taught her the basics before he ran off at 17. I've heard that many women of the era could read the bible, but couldn't write. Is this accurate? Was it historically common to learn one but not the other?	54	AskHistorians
Hartford, CT is currently an unimpressive city that's practically deserted after 5 p.m. and on weekends. But Mark Twain loved it enough to settle there when it was a cultural and economic hotspot. What element of the city would have caught Twain's eye?	54	AskHistorians
Why was Tenochtitlan and other Mexica cities so much larger and more impressive than the grandest European cities the conquistadors had seen?	54	AskHistorians
Florence Nightingale was a hygiene and medical reformer. But the system of military medical care she was trying to fix was incredibly inept and mismanaged. Why did the British offer such dismal medical care and sanitation to their soldiers?	53	AskHistorians
"Caesar was the hero trying to fix a dysfunctional Republic and help the common people, and Brutus was the oligarchic villain who murdered him." — Was this inversional take on the modern despotic Caesar/republican martyr Brutus ever popular?	52	AskHistorians
Ancient elites seem way more "blingy" than is common today based on their grave goods. Were they like Mr. T, or just wanted to enter the afterlife with the option to be Mr. T?	52	AskHistorians
What did Epictetus's Roman "pretty boy" look like?	52	AskHistorians
Did ancient Athens have a raft of people affecting lisps and over-articulating words like children?	52	AskHistorians
American cuisine seems to have been meat centric from early on, and meat seems to have been affordable even to the poor. Why was it so much more ubiquitous than in many places in Europe where its inhabitants came from?	52	AskHistorians
The Greek writer Plutarch mocked ancient Greek religion/mythology, and yet served as a priest at the temple of Apollo at Delphi. What should we make of this arrangement? Was this sort of worship combined with lampooning common?	51	AskHistorians