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How did Latin speaking people in Ancient Rome pronounce numbers written in Roman Numerals?	5
What did Martin Luther King Jr. think of the original friar Martin Luther? Did King ever discuss his thoughts on the man? Especially given his more... "Questionable" qualities?	5
Was kind of, if any, espionage operations took place during the American Revolutionary War? What were the intel. capabilities of the two sides? Where the British notably more sophisticated than the Americans?	4
In Classical Athens, what sort of place would the average nobody Athenian call home? For Rome the answer is the Insulae, but what was their Greek cousins' equivalent?	4
How did the word "Company" come to refer to a corporation?	4
Did people in antiquity (Rome, Greece, Mesopotamia, etc.) know about the white light-like sensation that encompasses your vision when you die?	3
In Ancient Rome, children (maybe just boys?) wore a special pendant and a special purple rimmed tunic for both religious and secular reasons. My question is this: given how poor most people were back then, were all expected to be able to afford this for their child? Was this just a wealthy thing?	3
Given that most Romans lived at the lowest rung of the socioeconomic ladder, exactly how "desperate" would the average Roman's life have been? In there eyes, what would constitute the minimums of a "comfy" life for someone in the lower echelons of Roman society?	3
What was the 'American Dream' to Ancient Rome's (often vary poor) common folk? I doubt they were given a rosy promise of a good life after hard work, but their poverty is only poverty to us, and was 'normal' to them, thus, what kind of life did they (realistically) aspire for if all went well?	3
Did the ancient Greeks view Olympus as a polis like they did with every other 'civilized' society? If so, what did this conceptualization look like and how did its features change in post-Philip Greece with the decline of the polis?	3

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