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Did Rome really build pipes to funnel wine to Cologne? The Kaiserchronik states: "From Trier, an old fortified city that adorned Roman authority, the Romans sent wine a long distance under the earth in stone pipes to please all the lords who settled around Cologne. Great was the Romans' might!"	296
How did snipers confirm kills during the early 20th century?	296
What did a large-scale bureaucratic or administrative "office" look like in East Asia before the widespread adoption of raised chairs and desks? How would the rooms be laid out, with what sort of furniture? How would people be arranged? What would daily activities have looked like?	296
Just an FYI: There is a holocaust survivor doing an AmA on askreddit right now. NSFW	295
How did spices generate insane amounts of money for European empires when they were just a luxury item used on food, and not something essential like oil and gas are today?	294
Did Neville Chamberlain actually believe that he had achieved peace in Europe or was he simply trying to buy time for Britain to prepare for war?	294
How did the myth of "Nazi-like efficiency" come into being?	294
In the popular videogame 'Skyrim', a treaty stipulates that the losing nation of a prior war remove one of their deities from its pantheon, no longer recognizing the figure ("Talos") as a deity. Are there examples of 'editing' a nation's religion as a term of surrender in the real world?	294
In the Ming Dynasty, how was studying like in the Imperial College? How was it ran? What did the students do after classes? Did they have any holidays?	294
How "serious" were religious beliefs in ancient Greece and the Roman Empire, and what role did they actually play in everyday life?	292

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