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Did Ancient Greek literature or drama have any horror?

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Do we know the melody that the Psalms would have been sung with? Why wouldn't that have been included with the Psalms the way modern hymnals are?

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Where did the (very racist) stereotypical "Native American accent" come from, as typified by the chief from Peter Pan?

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What was arms dealing like during the 30 Years War?

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When did roughly four minutes become the standard song length?

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Who was "the Einstein" before Albert Einstein, the ubiquitously known individual who became a byword for "very very smart"?

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Given that, near as I can tell, no portrait of Henry VIII exists of him eating a turkey leg, and that it seems to not be a contemporaneous dramatic depiction, where did we get the image of him gnawing on one?

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Taft was the US president before being appointed to the Supreme Court by Harding, the only president to do so. Was there any criticism levied at him or Harding for going from a partisan role to one that demanded nominal impartiality?

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Henry Winkler tells the story of how his father, a German Jew living in Berlin in 1939, obtained a 6 month work visa to the US and then was granted multiple extensions over the next few years. What was the general policy from Nazi Germany to Jews who fled the country via an official means?

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What was a medieval peasant's sense of scale like? How frequently would they have contemplated a million of anything? A hundred of anything?

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Did Ancient Greek literature or drama have any horror?	11	AskHistorians
Do we know the melody that the Psalms would have been sung with? Why wouldn't that have been included with the Psalms the way modern hymnals are?	11	AskHistorians
Where did the (very racist) stereotypical "Native American accent" come from, as typified by the chief from Peter Pan?	11	AskHistorians
What was arms dealing like during the 30 Years War?	11	AskHistorians
When did roughly four minutes become the standard song length?	11	AskHistorians
Who was "the Einstein" before Albert Einstein, the ubiquitously known individual who became a byword for "very very smart"?	11	AskHistorians
Given that, near as I can tell, no portrait of Henry VIII exists of him eating a turkey leg, and that it seems to not be a contemporaneous dramatic depiction, where did we get the image of him gnawing on one?	10	AskHistorians
Taft was the US president before being appointed to the Supreme Court by Harding, the only president to do so. Was there any criticism levied at him or Harding for going from a partisan role to one that demanded nominal impartiality?	10	AskHistorians
Henry Winkler tells the story of how his father, a German Jew living in Berlin in 1939, obtained a 6 month work visa to the US and then was granted multiple extensions over the next few years. What was the general policy from Nazi Germany to Jews who fled the country via an official means?	10	AskHistorians
What was a medieval peasant's sense of scale like? How frequently would they have contemplated a million of anything? A hundred of anything?	10	AskHistorians