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Why does Mary have a boob ray and monkey slave in this Renaissance era cosmological diagram?

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The ancient Christian writer Justin Martyr (~150 AD) argued that skeptics should just go to Bethlehem and look at the tax records. Would the Roman government have reasonably retained tax / census records that long?

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Are there any folk tales or legends that might be cultural memories of the last glacial period?

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Did the Wiggles have counterparts in the Middle Ages? That is, were there people in the European Middle Ages who specialized in entertaining children in particular?

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Lawrence Sheriff, who supplied groceries to Queen Elizabeth I, was apprenticed to a London grocer for seven years. What did grocers do in those days that required such long training?

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Prior to Tolkien, did "fandoms" exist that demanded an internally consistent canon of literature describing wholly fictional worlds?

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In the time of guilds, were there goldsmith or brewer equivalents to the "hipster barista" fashion? Like you'd see someone wearing particular (non-uniform) clothes and say "Oh there goes a fishmonger in his hip fishmonger hat!"

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The ancient Christian writer Justin Martyr argued around 150 AD that skeptics should just go to Bethlehem and look at the tax records. Would the Roman government have reasonably retained tax / census records that long?

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Do we have any historical writings from the last survivors of doomed colony, kingdom, or city that ended organically (i.e. not via warfare)? How did they cope with their demise?

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In 1794, France abolished slavery. Eight years later, in 1802, France un-abolished slavery. They are the only nation in history to do so. What's the story there?

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Why does Mary have a boob ray and monkey slave in this Renaissance era cosmological diagram?	2716	AskHistorians
The ancient Christian writer Justin Martyr (~150 AD) argued that skeptics should just go to Bethlehem and look at the tax records. Would the Roman government have reasonably retained tax / census records that long?	1931	AskHistorians
Are there any folk tales or legends that might be cultural memories of the last glacial period?	1556	AskHistorians
Did the Wiggles have counterparts in the Middle Ages? That is, were there people in the European Middle Ages who specialized in entertaining children in particular?	1511	AskHistorians
Lawrence Sheriff, who supplied groceries to Queen Elizabeth I, was apprenticed to a London grocer for seven years. What did grocers do in those days that required such long training?	1144	AskHistorians
Prior to Tolkien, did "fandoms" exist that demanded an internally consistent canon of literature describing wholly fictional worlds?	576	AskHistorians
In the time of guilds, were there goldsmith or brewer equivalents to the "hipster barista" fashion? Like you'd see someone wearing particular (non-uniform) clothes and say "Oh there goes a fishmonger in his hip fishmonger hat!"	302	AskHistorians
The ancient Christian writer Justin Martyr argued around 150 AD that skeptics should just go to Bethlehem and look at the tax records. Would the Roman government have reasonably retained tax / census records that long?	244	AskHistorians
Do we have any historical writings from the last survivors of doomed colony, kingdom, or city that ended organically (i.e. not via warfare)? How did they cope with their demise?	241	AskHistorians
In 1794, France abolished slavery. Eight years later, in 1802, France un-abolished slavery. They are the only nation in history to do so. What's the story there?	180	AskHistorians