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People who sell a product/service promising false results are sometimes referred to as snake-oil salesmen. Where did this term come from? Was there a point in American history where people would sell literal "snake oil" as some kind of placebo?

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What would an ancient Roman Epicurean Patrician think of modern American cuisine?

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Since when has FGM (female genital mutilation) been a practice in Africa? More specifically, was it already commonplace in ancient Egypt during or before Cleopatra as well?

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How dangerous was the Tudor court in the sixteenth century for its noble denizens? Was it as homicidal as dramatizations have contended?

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How did Che Guevara's face , a staunch communist revolutionary, become a prominent symbol even among ostensibly anti/non-communist subcultures especially in the West?

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Why don't Americans eat very much sheep?

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How reliable are Ibn Battuta's accounts of early West Africa to historians?

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It’s 1701 and I’m a Lord Proprietor for the Bahamas, what responsibilities do I hold as a Proprietor?

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We're the skulls and other bones found in catacombs originally still covered with the muscle/skin of the deceased when they were placed there?

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Is the Palmetto Flag flown all over South Carolina an alternative confederate flag?

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People who sell a product/service promising false results are sometimes referred to as snake-oil salesmen. Where did this term come from? Was there a point in American history where people would sell literal "snake oil" as some kind of placebo?	5
What would an ancient Roman Epicurean Patrician think of modern American cuisine?	5
Since when has FGM (female genital mutilation) been a practice in Africa? More specifically, was it already commonplace in ancient Egypt during or before Cleopatra as well?	5
How dangerous was the Tudor court in the sixteenth century for its noble denizens? Was it as homicidal as dramatizations have contended?	5
How did Che Guevara's face , a staunch communist revolutionary, become a prominent symbol even among ostensibly anti/non-communist subcultures especially in the West?	5
Why don't Americans eat very much sheep?	5
How reliable are Ibn Battuta's accounts of early West Africa to historians?	5
It’s 1701 and I’m a Lord Proprietor for the Bahamas, what responsibilities do I hold as a Proprietor?	5
We're the skulls and other bones found in catacombs originally still covered with the muscle/skin of the deceased when they were placed there?	5
Is the Palmetto Flag flown all over South Carolina an alternative confederate flag?	5