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Was Pope Urban II the first to sanction an offensive war in name of Christianity?

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Did soldiers of any country during WWI/WWII use ear protection regularly? How did they deal with the effects of prolonged exposure to gunfire?

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What was the public and theological reaction when it was first discovered that Siddhartha Guamata had been unknowingly venerated for hundreds of years as the Christian saint Josephet?

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What type of relationships did the Ancestral Puebloans had with the Athabaskans (i.e. ancestors of the Apache and Navajo) and Numics (i.e. ancestors of the Comanches and Utes)?

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In the early days of United States, how much land did you have to own to vote? How many people could vote?

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Do we have records of non-Greeks, or people who didn't adhere to the Hellenic religion, competing in the Ancient Olympics?

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I have heard that the flightless Great Auk of the North Atlantic was hunted to extinction because it was such a tasty table bird. How were they actually cooked? If I wanted to approximate a plate of auk, what would be the closest living species?

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Why are there no old universities/education institutes that have survived from ancient Greece or Rome? Or, if there are, why are they not prominent?

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In Song Dynasty, Mathematics students' exam includes weather predictions. How did they predict the weather for the next 3 days and how was the grading process?

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Was Pope Urban II the first to sanction an offensive war in name of Christianity?	44
Did soldiers of any country during WWI/WWII use ear protection regularly? How did they deal with the effects of prolonged exposure to gunfire?	44
What was the public and theological reaction when it was first discovered that Siddhartha Guamata had been unknowingly venerated for hundreds of years as the Christian saint Josephet?	43
What type of relationships did the Ancestral Puebloans had with the Athabaskans (i.e. ancestors of the Apache and Navajo) and Numics (i.e. ancestors of the Comanches and Utes)?	43
In the early days of United States, how much land did you have to own to vote? How many people could vote?	43
Do we have records of non-Greeks, or people who didn't adhere to the Hellenic religion, competing in the Ancient Olympics?	43
I have heard that the flightless Great Auk of the North Atlantic was hunted to extinction because it was such a tasty table bird. How were they actually cooked? If I wanted to approximate a plate of auk, what would be the closest living species?	43
Why are there no old universities/education institutes that have survived from ancient Greece or Rome? Or, if there are, why are they not prominent?	43
In Song Dynasty, Mathematics students' exam includes weather predictions. How did they predict the weather for the next 3 days and how was the grading process?	43
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