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Modern classics courses are dominated by the Iliad and the Odyssey. Did the ancient Greeks attach that much importance to them, or did they just happen to survive to the modern day when other works didn't?

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Was being a veteran considered particularly honorable in medieval Europe? How was military service rationalized/justified in the era before patriotism and nationalism?

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Why did early Christianity spread so rapidly within the Roman Empire but wasn't as successful in other places? Was it simply because Rome was highly interconnected or were Romans especially easy to convert?

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What did people do with portraits of themselves? Would they likely display it in their own house while they were alive, or was hanging up an oil painting of your own face considered odd?

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How and when did the Gettysburg Address become canonized as one of the greatest speeches ever made?

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How much of the fighting in the Battle of Stalingrad actually occurred in Stalingrad?

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The star Stephenson 2-18 has a volume about 10 billion times that of the sun, but only has a mass on the order of about 10 times bigger. How does such an absurdly low density star exist?

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Estimates of the rate of star formation predict that the peak habitability of the universe will occur about ten trillion years from now, a thousand times the current age of the universe. Do most cosmologists believe that we happen to be extremely early observers then?

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How and why did barge haulers of all people become such an iconic symbol of imperial Russia (e.g. Song of the Volga Boatmen, Ilya Repin's famous painting)?

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Modern classics courses are dominated by the Iliad and the Odyssey. Did the ancient Greeks attach that much importance to them, or did they just happen to survive to the modern day when other works didn't?	8	AskHistorians
Was being a veteran considered particularly honorable in medieval Europe? How was military service rationalized/justified in the era before patriotism and nationalism?	7	AskHistorians
Why did early Christianity spread so rapidly within the Roman Empire but wasn't as successful in other places? Was it simply because Rome was highly interconnected or were Romans especially easy to convert?	6	AskHistorians
What did people do with portraits of themselves? Would they likely display it in their own house while they were alive, or was hanging up an oil painting of your own face considered odd?	2	AskHistorians
How and when did the Gettysburg Address become canonized as one of the greatest speeches ever made?	2	AskHistorians
How much of the fighting in the Battle of Stalingrad actually occurred in Stalingrad?	2	AskHistorians
The star Stephenson 2-18 has a volume about 10 billion times that of the sun, but only has a mass on the order of about 10 times bigger. How does such an absurdly low density star exist?	1	askscience
Estimates of the rate of star formation predict that the peak habitability of the universe will occur about ten trillion years from now, a thousand times the current age of the universe. Do most cosmologists believe that we happen to be extremely early observers then?	1	askscience
How and why did barge haulers of all people become such an iconic symbol of imperial Russia (e.g. Song of the Volga Boatmen, Ilya Repin's famous painting)?	1	AskHistorians