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In Japan, only certain classes we allowed to have weapons. Was there a black market for arms among lower class in Japan? Were there similar laws against peasants owning weapons in Europe?

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Were / Are there any traditionally matriarchal Native American tribes?

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I remember there's been attempts to build a reproduction of the Antikythera Mechanism using only Greek tools and techniques. Are any of them actually accurate?

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How Vain were the Vikings?

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Have we Pre-Victorian equivalents to pin-ups? What was thought of them at the time?

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Bar/bat mitzvahs in early nazi germany, were they banned?

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Was Nero really quite as insane as popularised or was he defamed? Also bonus question, any figures which we can now state with a wealth of strong evidence were defamed but actually weren't as bad?

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Banks are recorded to have started as early as the medieval period, how'd they work for the laymen and the powerful men back then?

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"a greater alien threat could unite humanity" has this ever been true with invasion of alien (to them) races and cultures?

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I've often heard the joke many a time of "X was a prank by the ancestors to confuse future generations"

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In Japan, only certain classes we allowed to have weapons. Was there a black market for arms among lower class in Japan? Were there similar laws against peasants owning weapons in Europe?	195
Were / Are there any traditionally matriarchal Native American tribes?	26
I remember there's been attempts to build a reproduction of the Antikythera Mechanism using only Greek tools and techniques. Are any of them actually accurate?	22
How Vain were the Vikings?	11
Have we Pre-Victorian equivalents to pin-ups? What was thought of them at the time?	8
Bar/bat mitzvahs in early nazi germany, were they banned?	6
Was Nero really quite as insane as popularised or was he defamed? Also bonus question, any figures which we can now state with a wealth of strong evidence were defamed but actually weren't as bad?	5
Banks are recorded to have started as early as the medieval period, how'd they work for the laymen and the powerful men back then?	2
"a greater alien threat could unite humanity" has this ever been true with invasion of alien (to them) races and cultures?	2
I've often heard the joke many a time of "X was a prank by the ancestors to confuse future generations"	2