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Why has the City of Bath, UK managed to hold onto so much of their historic Georgian architecture, but so many areas of the Uk have knocked down their historic buildings to make room for 1950s brutalist / functional architecture?

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Why didn't communism ever take root in Thailand like it did in Laos and Cambodia?

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Why in places in the Middle East such as Egypt, the Levant and Mesopotamia Christianity did survive islamization in important numbers as a relatively big minority, while in North Africa it basically disappeared?

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When did the idea that sex should be physically fulfilling to women emerge in Western society?

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How did medieval women manage their periods? Would their partners help them during the worst cramps or were they just supposed to keep working regardless of their pain?

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Where there any civilisations that thought they were the only humans in the world?

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Like gunpowder, clocks and clockworks were much more advanced in medieval China than their European counterparts. Why did Europe become the center of mechanical prowess?

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Did U.S. soliders really have to change their socks every time they made a stop in Vietnam?

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[deleted by user]	39
Why has the City of Bath, UK managed to hold onto so much of their historic Georgian architecture, but so many areas of the Uk have knocked down their historic buildings to make room for 1950s brutalist / functional architecture?	39
[deleted by user]	39
Why didn't communism ever take root in Thailand like it did in Laos and Cambodia?	39
Why in places in the Middle East such as Egypt, the Levant and Mesopotamia Christianity did survive islamization in important numbers as a relatively big minority, while in North Africa it basically disappeared?	39
When did the idea that sex should be physically fulfilling to women emerge in Western society?	39
How did medieval women manage their periods? Would their partners help them during the worst cramps or were they just supposed to keep working regardless of their pain?	39
Where there any civilisations that thought they were the only humans in the world?	39
Like gunpowder, clocks and clockworks were much more advanced in medieval China than their European counterparts. Why did Europe become the center of mechanical prowess?	39
Did U.S. soliders really have to change their socks every time they made a stop in Vietnam?	39