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What was the process of using the Rosetta Stone to learn Egyptian hieroglyphs like? How did they know it was the same text as the other sections of the stone? Was there even anything to cross reference it with?
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As I understand it, the modern historical consensus is that the identity of the sitter in the Mona Lisa is Lisa del Giocondo. How did historians come to this consensus?
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[WP] You are an initiate of a order of monks devoted to "chasing" déjà vu, using a sharply trained memory to follow triggered episodes of the phenomenon as far as they can go. Most masters have only been able to get a few minutes into an episode before it slips away. You just hit the one hour mark.
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How accurate is the North Korean position that Kim Il-Sung's father was an important figure in the Korean independence movement?
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Were the Valachi hearings in 1963, in which Joseph Valachi broke the code of silence and told the world about the operations of the Mafia, providing genuinely new information, or confirming what authorities had already suspected?
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How did (arguably predatory) "buy here, pay here" car dealerships develop? It seems like a pretty big jump for car dealers to get into the financial services industry.
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Was product placement in media a thing prior to film? Did characters in Shakespeare plays performed in Elizabethan England stop the drama to talk about how they loved Ye Old Ale?
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I learned today of Harold Hering, a Major in the United States airforce missile crewman who was discharged in 1973 "for asking" whether the orders to launch a missile came from a sane president. Was Hering actually fired JUST for asking the question, or is this an oversimplification?
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