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How was Alfonso Henrique becoming the first Portugese king viewed by the Moors/Umayyads and other Christian Spaniards?

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What were sandwiches like in the 18th/19th century?

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Was the sense of divinity of the Emperor in Japan truly believed, or was this an idiom lost in translation? What about the topic of divine descent?

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Why did Islam never have a central religious authority like Catholicism? Were there ever advocates for centralization?

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Ellen Shannon's 1870 grave marker says her death was caused "by the explosion of a lamp filled with RE Danforth's Non-Explosive Burning Fuel". How dangerous were lamps in the late 1800s? Were non-explosive fuels actually any safer?

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In ancient Rome how much would a combat sword cost?

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Is it true that on battle, eighteenth century muskets only killed someone 0.2% of the time? That doesn’t seem possible at all!

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In the medieval strategy game Crusader Kings 3 in the start date 1066 there is a duchy at the most eastern border of the map in Mongolia that has the "Nestorian" denomination of Christianity. How did Christianity, in particular that denomination, reach a place so far away from core Christian lands?

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Did teenage Japanese girls develop a new style of writing in the 1970s?

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How was Alfonso Henrique becoming the first Portugese king viewed by the Moors/Umayyads and other Christian Spaniards?	15
What were sandwiches like in the 18th/19th century?	15
[deleted by user]	15
Was the sense of divinity of the Emperor in Japan truly believed, or was this an idiom lost in translation? What about the topic of divine descent?	15
Why did Islam never have a central religious authority like Catholicism? Were there ever advocates for centralization?	15
Ellen Shannon's 1870 grave marker says her death was caused "by the explosion of a lamp filled with RE Danforth's Non-Explosive Burning Fuel". How dangerous were lamps in the late 1800s? Were non-explosive fuels actually any safer?	15
In ancient Rome how much would a combat sword cost?	15
Is it true that on battle, eighteenth century muskets only killed someone 0.2% of the time? That doesn’t seem possible at all!	15
In the medieval strategy game Crusader Kings 3 in the start date 1066 there is a duchy at the most eastern border of the map in Mongolia that has the "Nestorian" denomination of Christianity. How did Christianity, in particular that denomination, reach a place so far away from core Christian lands?	15
Did teenage Japanese girls develop a new style of writing in the 1970s?	15