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At the end of the nineteenth century, about 100,000 horses lived in New York City. A busy horse eats about 20 pounds of hay each day. How did the city manage two MILLION pounds of hay every day?
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How come Cortes described the Mexican cities and towns as having mosques and built in a moorish style?
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If I were a Roman citizen, fluent in Latin, in the time of Justinian the First, could I directly speak with a Roman from 700 years ago in the time of the Punic Wars?
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How do historians tell the difference between legends that people actually believed, and ones that were just popular fictional stories?
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East Indian Trading Company: How did they become so powerful, what happened to them and does any version/merger of the EITC still exist today?
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I'm a 18 year old male in Britain in 1916. I know conscription is coming in next week. Can I avoid trench warfare by rushing to the recruitment offices and seeking a 'safe' job.
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Why did pre-marital sex become a taboo concept in Abrahamic religions? Was it just a way of shunning pagan religions?
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Why is the Armenian Genocide still widely unrecognised if it was committed by the Ottoman Empire and not current-day Turkey?
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