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Quarantine comes from the 40 days ships had to stay outside of Venice. Did the Venetians get the 40 days from the Bible? You know fasting for 40 days or being on Mount Sinai for 40 days (Moses)?

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How did the Conquistadors learn the local laguage(s)

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How connected/related were Koreans on both sides before the Korean War?

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Why are the Jutes left out of "Anglo-Saxon"?

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Today we think of hunter-gatherers or cave men as our primitive forefathers. Did the Ancient Greeks (or other ancient societies) have a conception of a pre-civilizational way of life for their ancestors?

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Why was the American south given back political power so quickly after the civil war?

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1934, the Business Plot aimed to overthrow American president FDR by means of a military coup. What prompted these events?

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Was there a “clean Wehrmacht” myth that arose in East Germany? How were East German students taught about WW2?

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Did the Tudors feel threatened by people like Charles Somerset or Arthur Plantagenet, as male-line descendants of the Plantagenets?

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Why didn't Japan or any other East Asian country come to the new world as soon as they learned that it existed?

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Quarantine comes from the 40 days ships had to stay outside of Venice. Did the Venetians get the 40 days from the Bible? You know fasting for 40 days or being on Mount Sinai for 40 days (Moses)?	26
How did the Conquistadors learn the local laguage(s)	26
How connected/related were Koreans on both sides before the Korean War?	26
Why are the Jutes left out of "Anglo-Saxon"?	26
Today we think of hunter-gatherers or cave men as our primitive forefathers. Did the Ancient Greeks (or other ancient societies) have a conception of a pre-civilizational way of life for their ancestors?	26
Why was the American south given back political power so quickly after the civil war?	26
1934, the Business Plot aimed to overthrow American president FDR by means of a military coup. What prompted these events?	26
Was there a “clean Wehrmacht” myth that arose in East Germany? How were East German students taught about WW2?	26
Did the Tudors feel threatened by people like Charles Somerset or Arthur Plantagenet, as male-line descendants of the Plantagenets?	26
Why didn't Japan or any other East Asian country come to the new world as soon as they learned that it existed?	26