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At what point did Stonehenge cease to be simply a set of ruins and begin to be a tourist destination? Why did its first "tourists" visit it?

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How did Cardinal Richelieu - a catholic cleric living in France - become one of the most powerful political figures in all of Europe?

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Many people label the Victorian era as "sex-negative" - was this really the case?

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How did major figures who had been involved in the Confederacy (i.e. Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, etc.) respond to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln?

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Given that the torture device known as the "iron maiden" is basically fictional, why and how did it get so swiftly accepted as being an actual thing?

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I'd like to hear some serious discussion of the usefulness of the term "Renaissance"

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Were there any prominent women who were composers in the age of Beethoven, Mozart, etc.?

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Was there a "fandom" for the 'Lord of the Rings' books? What did it look like and what did it do as they were released?

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The name "Margaret" has widely accepted short forms as varied as "Madge," "Midge," "Maggie," "Meg" and somehow "Peggy". How did something like this come to happen?

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In Medieval Europe, whose job was it to actually devise the methods by which people would be tortured? Were people trained in torture engineering and innovation?

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At what point did Stonehenge cease to be simply a set of ruins and begin to be a tourist destination? Why did its first "tourists" visit it?	24	AskHistorians
How did Cardinal Richelieu - a catholic cleric living in France - become one of the most powerful political figures in all of Europe?	24	AskHistorians
Many people label the Victorian era as "sex-negative" - was this really the case?	24	AskHistorians
How did major figures who had been involved in the Confederacy (i.e. Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, etc.) respond to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln?	23	AskHistorians
Given that the torture device known as the "iron maiden" is basically fictional, why and how did it get so swiftly accepted as being an actual thing?	22	AskHistorians
I'd like to hear some serious discussion of the usefulness of the term "Renaissance"	22	AskHistorians
Were there any prominent women who were composers in the age of Beethoven, Mozart, etc.?	22	AskHistorians
Was there a "fandom" for the 'Lord of the Rings' books? What did it look like and what did it do as they were released?	22	AskHistorians
The name "Margaret" has widely accepted short forms as varied as "Madge," "Midge," "Maggie," "Meg" and somehow "Peggy". How did something like this come to happen?	22	AskHistorians
In Medieval Europe, whose job was it to actually devise the methods by which people would be tortured? Were people trained in torture engineering and innovation?	21	AskHistorians