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The Habsburgs had an elaborate burial tradition: their hearts, intestines, and bodies were all buried in separate locations. When and how did this originate?

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The pigment "Mummy Brown" was once made from ground up Egyptian mummies, and only ceased to be produced in the 1960s. How many tubes of paint could be created from one mummy, and were later batches of the colour (in the 1940s-60s) still being made with human mummies?

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Why did Charlemagne divorce the Lombard Princess Desiderata?

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Where did the trope of sacrificing people into a volcano originate? And did it have any basis in historical fact?

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Why was the Arianism so divisive/important an issue to early Christianity?

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In Victor Hugo's 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame', "gypsies" are a persecuted minority group in 15th century Paris. Historically, what persecution did these people face throughout Europe in the Middle Ages?

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Did the silent film "Nosferatu" (1922) really inspire Julius Streicher's use of antisemitic vampire imagery?

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Ambushes by bandits are a staple of medieval fantasy. Were bandits much of a problem in medieval Europe? If so, what precautions might a traveller take to minimize danger?

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In the BBC documentary "The Necessary War", Max Hastings makes the claim that Imperial Germany's war aims during WW1 were identical to the Nazis' (minus the Holocaust). Is there any validity to this claim?

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I am a homosexual man living in the western world during the Victorian or Edwardian period. How do I discreetly meet other men for sexual encounters?

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The Habsburgs had an elaborate burial tradition: their hearts, intestines, and bodies were all buried in separate locations. When and how did this originate?	2176
The pigment "Mummy Brown" was once made from ground up Egyptian mummies, and only ceased to be produced in the 1960s. How many tubes of paint could be created from one mummy, and were later batches of the colour (in the 1940s-60s) still being made with human mummies?	1820
Why did Charlemagne divorce the Lombard Princess Desiderata?	211
Where did the trope of sacrificing people into a volcano originate? And did it have any basis in historical fact?	146
Why was the Arianism so divisive/important an issue to early Christianity?	119
In Victor Hugo's 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame', "gypsies" are a persecuted minority group in 15th century Paris. Historically, what persecution did these people face throughout Europe in the Middle Ages?	112
Did the silent film "Nosferatu" (1922) really inspire Julius Streicher's use of antisemitic vampire imagery?	65
Ambushes by bandits are a staple of medieval fantasy. Were bandits much of a problem in medieval Europe? If so, what precautions might a traveller take to minimize danger?	61
In the BBC documentary "The Necessary War", Max Hastings makes the claim that Imperial Germany's war aims during WW1 were identical to the Nazis' (minus the Holocaust). Is there any validity to this claim?	33
I am a homosexual man living in the western world during the Victorian or Edwardian period. How do I discreetly meet other men for sexual encounters?	30