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How different were consumer habits between Eastern Europeans and Western Europeans after the introduction of capitalism and free market to the former communist nations?
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Was the USA ever at risk of a British led invasion or intervention on the side of the confederacy during the American Civil War?
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When you look at a list of the tallest churches in the world most of them are located within Germany. Why is this? What made tall churches so popular in German history?
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From what I understand the majority of spices for food in medieval Europe came through the Muslim world. During embargoes of Christian Europe, how did medieval lords acquire spices? Did they have smuggling rings? Did they raid Muslim trade for it? Or did they just go without spices.
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It is 1400BC in the New Kingdom of Egypt, and I, a wealthy patriarch of an Egyptian family has unfortunately met my end. What are my funerary arrangements like? Will I be mummified? Who will my family contact for this? And would my widowed wife be taken cared of?
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A recent post on Reddit claims that that the origins of driving on the left side go back to Medieval England where Knights would ride their horses on the left side of the road so if they encountered an enemy their sword hand would be on the correct side. Is there any truth in this?
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In America the 50's is often romanticized as being a time of vastly increasing wealth and prosperity . Is there any truth in this belief? And how did people come to perceive it as such?
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