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Which occupation had the worst overall safety standards and quality of life: A slave farmer in ancient Sparta, an African plantation worker in colonial Brazil or a factory worker in Victorian England?
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A lot of the ancient Greeks we know about are named after their hometown (e.g. Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Hero of Alexandria, etc.). Was that actually the accepted naming convention in ancient Greece or is it just something later historians have used to differentiate people with similar names?
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Was Alaska considered a colony by the Russians? And if so, then what did they produce/extract from there?
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I've read once that the Allied argument for taking Prussia away from Germany after WWII was that the region was associated with German nationalism and militarism. Was this true? How was, practically, the region associated with such a specific militaristic ethos within German national consciousness?
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Why can some animals, like snakes, eat only once and not need to again for months whilst animals like humans need to feed multiple times a day?
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I've read that the Uqair Protocol of 1922 caused Kuwait to lose "over half its territory". Are there any maps of Kuwait before Uqair?
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During the Cold War, East Germans were prohibited from escaping to the west, but if they did, was it a crime in West Germany to have escaped?
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