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A common element of letters to Santa from the late 19th and early 20th is requests for bags of nuts for Christmas. Why is this? Was it just tradition or did children actually want nuts for Christmas over, say, candy?
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Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have a number of things in common and have interacted with each other extensively. Has there ever been an effort to develop a "Pan-Abrahamism" to unite followers all three religions under some common cause?
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How did the sword become the iconic "medieval weapon" when other weapons of the time were either stronger aganist plate or had more reach with comparable damage?
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In fiction, there's a fairly common trope of the "legit" portion of the dealings of a front for a criminal organization becoming more profitable than the criminal portion. How common was this historically?
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The Japanese word for "kitchen" seems to be cognate with the English word "kitchen". How did this happen? What historical factors caused this?
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It's commonly known that for a commander to qualify for a Triumph during the Roman Republic, he must first be "hailed Imperator" by his troops. Do we know exactly was it determined whether or not this happened?
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