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What's the ratio of the earliest known writing as a means of conveying practical information vs. storytelling or worship?

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If a relatively healthy young man dropped dead of an aneurysm in 14th Century England what would it likely be attributed to?

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Yesterday was the 100th Anniversary of the beginning of the Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916. Without it, we might not have Jaws. So, is this event why I freak out when something touches my leg in murky water?

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Did people working at nuclear missile silos during the most tense moments of the Cold War have an understanding that retaliation on their exact location was almost guaranteed? In other words, did they consider firing nuclear weapons an act of suicide?

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The Call of the Wild is written from a dog's point of view. Is Jack London unique in his time period for using a non-human protagonist?

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Can anyone tell me a little more about the cats parachuted into Borneo to control the population boom of rats because of the chain reaction of DDT use? Who came up with Operation Cat Drop? Was there a debate around it?

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Were gender relationships and familial roots central to Dutch colonization in the 17th century vice commercial maritime trade?

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Can anyone point me in the direction of a history of the Desert Fathers and Mothers and early monasticism?

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What widespread policy shaping did the DOD undertake in the wake of the 1991 US Navy sexual assault scandal (Tailhook)?

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"Its" vs "it's": How and when did the contraction defeat the possessive in the Apostrophe War? For that matter, did standardized grammar emerge at the same time as standardized spelling? Have the rules of modern English grammar been more fluid than spelling?

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What's the ratio of the earliest known writing as a means of conveying practical information vs. storytelling or worship?	5	AskHistorians
If a relatively healthy young man dropped dead of an aneurysm in 14th Century England what would it likely be attributed to?	5	AskHistorians
Yesterday was the 100th Anniversary of the beginning of the Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916. Without it, we might not have Jaws. So, is this event why I freak out when something touches my leg in murky water?	5	AskHistorians
Did people working at nuclear missile silos during the most tense moments of the Cold War have an understanding that retaliation on their exact location was almost guaranteed? In other words, did they consider firing nuclear weapons an act of suicide?	5	AskHistorians
The Call of the Wild is written from a dog's point of view. Is Jack London unique in his time period for using a non-human protagonist?	5	AskHistorians
Can anyone tell me a little more about the cats parachuted into Borneo to control the population boom of rats because of the chain reaction of DDT use? Who came up with Operation Cat Drop? Was there a debate around it?	5	AskHistorians
Were gender relationships and familial roots central to Dutch colonization in the 17th century vice commercial maritime trade?	5	AskHistorians
Can anyone point me in the direction of a history of the Desert Fathers and Mothers and early monasticism?	5	AskHistorians
What widespread policy shaping did the DOD undertake in the wake of the 1991 US Navy sexual assault scandal (Tailhook)?	5	AskHistorians
"Its" vs "it's": How and when did the contraction defeat the possessive in the Apostrophe War? For that matter, did standardized grammar emerge at the same time as standardized spelling? Have the rules of modern English grammar been more fluid than spelling?	5	AskHistorians