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Modern English translations of Plato's accounts of Atlantis in the Timaeus and Critias, regularly state "9,000 years" as the date before Plato's time of writing. How has this date been calibrated from Plato's ancient Greek into the standard modern English translation as "9,000 years"?

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None of the Carthaginian gods are elephants. Persia, the Selucid empire, S.E. Asia, not even India idolized elephants like Carthage did. Why did they?

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How did the term 'Cold War' become so popular to describe the post-WWII "era of tension" and was it just used in The West or did the USSR/Eastern bloc also used a similar/translated term?

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Source on this photo? I'm incredibly curious

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Was Howard Hughes a paedophile?

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There are examples of open homosexuality in ancient Roman and Grecian times - was this also the case in the fertile crescent, ancient Egypt and the Indus River people?

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Papua New Guinea, The Kokoda Track, WWII - Is anyone able to tell me the things my Grandfather was unable to talk about?

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How far would I be able to go in a history major with a GED?

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How much did Australia's government aid groups like the Croatian revolutionary brotherhood in the cold war?

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Why, despite major changes in ideology, did personal rule (politics shaped by individuals rather than institutions) persist from the Tsarist into the Soviet and post-Soviet eras?

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Modern English translations of Plato's accounts of Atlantis in the Timaeus and Critias, regularly state "9,000 years" as the date before Plato's time of writing. How has this date been calibrated from Plato's ancient Greek into the standard modern English translation as "9,000 years"?	12
None of the Carthaginian gods are elephants. Persia, the Selucid empire, S.E. Asia, not even India idolized elephants like Carthage did. Why did they?	12
How did the term 'Cold War' become so popular to describe the post-WWII "era of tension" and was it just used in The West or did the USSR/Eastern bloc also used a similar/translated term?	12
Source on this photo? I'm incredibly curious	12
Was Howard Hughes a paedophile?	12
There are examples of open homosexuality in ancient Roman and Grecian times - was this also the case in the fertile crescent, ancient Egypt and the Indus River people?	12
Papua New Guinea, The Kokoda Track, WWII - Is anyone able to tell me the things my Grandfather was unable to talk about?	12
How far would I be able to go in a history major with a GED?	12
How much did Australia's government aid groups like the Croatian revolutionary brotherhood in the cold war?	12
Why, despite major changes in ideology, did personal rule (politics shaped by individuals rather than institutions) persist from the Tsarist into the Soviet and post-Soviet eras?	12