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In the Sherlock Holmes stories, Holmes frequently deduces a person's gender from his or her handwriting. How and why would men's and women's handwriting been different in Holmes' era?
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Were the Gurkhas always a warrior race, or is that reputation a result of extensive military recruitment from them by the British? If the former is the case, how did they become so warlike? If the latter, then why did the British prefer them as soldiers?
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The Ottoman Empire's infamous prohibition of the printing press is widely known and discussed. And yet, I don't know anything about other Muslim societies' reactions to printing. What, if anything, do we know about the opinions of the Safavids or Moghuls, for exams?
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The earliest part of Roman history (especially the founding of Rome and some of that of the Roman Kingdom) is obviously fictional. At what point does Roman history become reliable?
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