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Historically how rapidly were lost armored vehicles replaced?

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Why doesn't Romania have very many distinguished dialects as opposed to other Romance speaking countries? For instance, Italy is a linguistically diverse country full of many semi-mutually intelligible languages that form a continuum. Why is this not the case in Romania?

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In the animated adaption of Mulan, the song, "I’ll make a man out of you" contains the lyrics: "With all the strength of a raging fire / Mysterious as the dark side of the moon". Did the Chinese know that the moon was a sphere and that we see the same side of it every night?

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I've been told, as a source of pride, by Scottish-Canadians that Canada had raised more Scottish regiments in the World Wars than Scotland proper. Is this true?

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How much did Marie-Antoinette spend ?

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who is your favourite youtube channel for history/other facts?

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To what extent were the Ottomans familiar with Plato and other ancient Greek literature?

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I remember hearing about how Alexander the Great in a sense was a comodities trader- he bought an ancient concept similar to crop futures from merchants to endure his troops were fed. Is this true, and how did these ancient systems of futures contracts work?

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Historically how rapidly were lost armored vehicles replaced?	5
Why doesn't Romania have very many distinguished dialects as opposed to other Romance speaking countries? For instance, Italy is a linguistically diverse country full of many semi-mutually intelligible languages that form a continuum. Why is this not the case in Romania?	5
In the animated adaption of Mulan, the song, "I’ll make a man out of you" contains the lyrics: "With all the strength of a raging fire / Mysterious as the dark side of the moon". Did the Chinese know that the moon was a sphere and that we see the same side of it every night?	5
I've been told, as a source of pride, by Scottish-Canadians that Canada had raised more Scottish regiments in the World Wars than Scotland proper. Is this true?	5
[deleted by user]	5
How much did Marie-Antoinette spend ?	5
who is your favourite youtube channel for history/other facts?	5
To what extent were the Ottomans familiar with Plato and other ancient Greek literature?	5
I remember hearing about how Alexander the Great in a sense was a comodities trader- he bought an ancient concept similar to crop futures from merchants to endure his troops were fed. Is this true, and how did these ancient systems of futures contracts work?	5
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