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I heard that knights in the Middle Ages were sort of like star athletes today. How is possible for a single person to stand out in a battles of thousands? Or is this just based on tournaments.

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Where does the image of the devil as a goat come from?

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How well accepted is the Germanic substrate hypothesis, and who are the most likely non-Indo-Europeans that the Germanic speakers encountered?

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Is the archetype of a wizard (think Gandalf) based on any group from history?

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Why are angels often portrayed as infants in Christian paintings?

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How accurate is The Last Kingdom in the little details?

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Let’s arbitrarily take the year 100 AD. What percentage of Roman citizens had killed someone at some point in their life?

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What is the origin of the portrayal of witches and wizards in pointy hats?

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There are studies in which the right hemisphere reacts to a linguistic stimulus without conscious awareness. But how can it do that without being able to process language?

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The Great Course I’m doing says that France was seen as the “traditional source of instability in Europe.” What factors lead to that instability?

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I heard that knights in the Middle Ages were sort of like star athletes today. How is possible for a single person to stand out in a battles of thousands? Or is this just based on tournaments.	13	AskHistorians
Where does the image of the devil as a goat come from?	12	AskHistorians
How well accepted is the Germanic substrate hypothesis, and who are the most likely non-Indo-Europeans that the Germanic speakers encountered?	12	AskHistorians
Is the archetype of a wizard (think Gandalf) based on any group from history?	11	AskHistorians
Why are angels often portrayed as infants in Christian paintings?	11	AskHistorians
How accurate is The Last Kingdom in the little details?	11	AskHistorians
Let’s arbitrarily take the year 100 AD. What percentage of Roman citizens had killed someone at some point in their life?	11	AskHistorians
What is the origin of the portrayal of witches and wizards in pointy hats?	10	AskHistorians
There are studies in which the right hemisphere reacts to a linguistic stimulus without conscious awareness. But how can it do that without being able to process language?	10	askscience
The Great Course I’m doing says that France was seen as the “traditional source of instability in Europe.” What factors lead to that instability?	10	AskHistorians