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I recently watched Ingmar Bergman's "The Seventh Seal," which features a traveling acting troupe in Medieval Sweden. Would your average medieval villager be familiar with such acts or is artistic license?

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"80% of males in the Soviet Union born in 1923 would not be alive to see the year 1946" How true is this statement?

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So I've started reading Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. What are some other memoirs or writings written by ancient rulers or even more modern leaders that give us a deep sense of who they were as people and how they thought about the world?

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Can a historian help me decipher this cryptic passage I found in my Great-grandfather's notebook from the early 1900s?

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What was the first documented use of cannabis for pleasure?

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Did Muslims adopt any Norse equipment or customs after their meetings with Vikings?

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Why was the United States willing to use military force to prevent a communist takeover of South Korea in 1950, but unwilling to use military force to prevent a communist takeover of mainland China in 1949?

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In early Germanic society, Weregild was used as restitution for injury or murder. Was it common for families receiving the weregild to still seek out their own revenge after receiving the weregild?

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I recently watched Ingmar Bergman's "The Seventh Seal," which features a traveling acting troupe in Medieval Sweden. Would your average medieval villager be familiar with such acts or is artistic license?	67
"80% of males in the Soviet Union born in 1923 would not be alive to see the year 1946" How true is this statement?	67
So I've started reading Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. What are some other memoirs or writings written by ancient rulers or even more modern leaders that give us a deep sense of who they were as people and how they thought about the world?	67
Can a historian help me decipher this cryptic passage I found in my Great-grandfather's notebook from the early 1900s?	67
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What was the first documented use of cannabis for pleasure?	67
Did Muslims adopt any Norse equipment or customs after their meetings with Vikings?	67
[deleted by user]	66
Why was the United States willing to use military force to prevent a communist takeover of South Korea in 1950, but unwilling to use military force to prevent a communist takeover of mainland China in 1949?	66
In early Germanic society, Weregild was used as restitution for injury or murder. Was it common for families receiving the weregild to still seek out their own revenge after receiving the weregild?	66