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When the Spanish came to the New World, they brought diseases that wiped out Native Americans on an awe-inspiring scale (I’ve heard up to 90%). The Vikings got there first, why was there no corresponding pandemic from this first encounter?

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How do you all know these answers?

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When the states was being founded, were there different names besides the United States proposed?

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In WWI and WWII, how familiar were fighter pilots with individual enemy pilots? Did they ever directly challenge each other or otherwise have "sportsmanly" competition?

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How exactly were pandas used in war?

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I was playing Assassins Creed ( set in 1436 AD) and noticed the doctors were wearing the pointy masks. I thought they used those masks for the black death. Did the practice of wearing the mask carry on after the black death, or is the game inaccurate on that part?

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What happened to all the Roman noble families

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How did males having short hair and females having long hair become the societal norm?

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What other societies have seen large "baby-booms" (generational cohorts that were significantly larger than the cohorts before or after them) like in the Post-War US in the past? How did they cope with the aging (and death) of that generation?

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Why did the West become a sitting straight legged culture?

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When the Spanish came to the New World, they brought diseases that wiped out Native Americans on an awe-inspiring scale (I’ve heard up to 90%). The Vikings got there first, why was there no corresponding pandemic from this first encounter?	367
How do you all know these answers?	367
When the states was being founded, were there different names besides the United States proposed?	366
In WWI and WWII, how familiar were fighter pilots with individual enemy pilots? Did they ever directly challenge each other or otherwise have "sportsmanly" competition?	366
How exactly were pandas used in war?	364
I was playing Assassins Creed ( set in 1436 AD) and noticed the doctors were wearing the pointy masks. I thought they used those masks for the black death. Did the practice of wearing the mask carry on after the black death, or is the game inaccurate on that part?	364
What happened to all the Roman noble families	364
How did males having short hair and females having long hair become the societal norm?	363
What other societies have seen large "baby-booms" (generational cohorts that were significantly larger than the cohorts before or after them) like in the Post-War US in the past? How did they cope with the aging (and death) of that generation?	362
Why did the West become a sitting straight legged culture?	362