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The Star Trek Episode "Far Beyond the Stars" centers around a Black science fiction writer attempting to publish a story centering around a Black space captian in a sci-fi magazine; What was the role of people of color in early science fiction?
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The Voynich Manuscript is sometimes proposed to be an elaborate hoax made during the mid 15th century: were such hoax books common during this period? If so, what was the development process and who was the intended audience?
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In John Milton's Paradise Lost, Satan is sometimes read as the protagonist. While Milton obviously didn't intend this, did any of his contemporaries believe this?
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As many as 30 million people died in the Taiping Rebellion, what caused the death toll to be so high and how did a small repigious movement grow so rapidly and spark one of the largest rebllions in Chinese history?
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In the early 16th century, codpieces became very popular, but were objects of parody and derision by the end of it. What contributed to the rise and fall of this bizarre fashion trend?
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