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Sea shanties are popularly associated with pirates, but most if not all the famous ones were written down after the Golden Age of Piracy. Is this a simple anachronism, or is there more to it than that?
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People on reddit commonly claim that the phrase "The customer is always right" was twisted from its original meaning. Is this really true?
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Modern recipes that use cinnamon usually mix it with sugar, a New World crop. How was cinnamon used in Old World cooking prior to the introduction of sugar?
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Do academic historians still divide history into Ancient, Medieval, and Modern? Considering how much things change in different parts of these periods, is it even useful?
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Did peasant levies (conscripts) exist in medieval Europe? If so, has their presence been exaggerated?
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The Pink Floyd albums "Animals" and "The Wall" contain explicitly leftist themes, yet their releases overlap with the rise of neoliberalism in politics. How did the rise of the new ideology impact the reception of these albums, if at all?
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