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Is there a reason so many religious Christmas songs were written in the 18th through mid-19th centuries?
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If you could re-run history with all human actions shifted by three days (stuff that happened on June 1 happens on June 4), what events would be the most different?
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Did someone living away from Rome understand his citizenship to be of the city or of the broader empire?
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We hear a lot about how devastating European diseases were for American natives, but what about the other way around? Did European sailors take any indigenous American diseases home?
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The Americas are populated by the descendants of people who were willing (mostly) to uproot their lives and undertake an arduous sea voyage. Has this ever been shown to affect inherited psychology vs either indigenous Americans or Old World peoples?
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Assume there were actually malicious witches in Salem. Was there anything else unusual about the trials for the time?
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Vacuum decay bubbles are supposed to expand at the speed of light, consuming the universe. But the distant universe is expanding away from us faster than the speed of light and will accelerate. So what happens when the vacuum bubble can't keep up?
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