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Pheidippides ran from Athens to Sparta, and then from Marathon to Athens whereupon he died from exhaustion. Why didn't he just ride a horse?

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By avenging her son's death in attacking Heorot, would Grendel's mother have been seen as a sympathetic character by "Beowulf's" Anglo-Saxon audience for carrying on a blood-feud against the Danes?

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[META] The Annals of Askhistorians: the Inauguration of New Mods!

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In Montreal, there is a major boulevard and metro station named after Pope Pius IX, supposedly because many Quebecois Catholics joined the Papal army under his reign. How true is this claim? If so, how many Quebecers actually joined?

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When and why did English orthography stop using Þ (thorn) and ð (eth)?

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It's the Economy, Stupid! Economic History Panel AMA

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By 1066, how "Norse" were the Normans?

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Why did the Italian Fascists adopt the Ethiopian term 'Ras' for their regional party bosses?

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Where did the trope of barbarians disdaining "decadent" Roman/Greek/fantasy cultures come from?

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The Romans viewed the Etruscans as skillful diviners ans augurs, and the Gauls as warlike barbarians - what other "national" stereotypes did they have about the other neighboring peoples on the Italian peninsula like the Oscans, Ligurians, Samnites, Greeks etc.?

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Pheidippides ran from Athens to Sparta, and then from Marathon to Athens whereupon he died from exhaustion. Why didn't he just ride a horse?	151
By avenging her son's death in attacking Heorot, would Grendel's mother have been seen as a sympathetic character by "Beowulf's" Anglo-Saxon audience for carrying on a blood-feud against the Danes?	142
[META] The Annals of Askhistorians: the Inauguration of New Mods!	142
In Montreal, there is a major boulevard and metro station named after Pope Pius IX, supposedly because many Quebecois Catholics joined the Papal army under his reign. How true is this claim? If so, how many Quebecers actually joined?	141
When and why did English orthography stop using Þ (thorn) and ð (eth)?	132
It's the Economy, Stupid! Economic History Panel AMA	118
By 1066, how "Norse" were the Normans?	116
Why did the Italian Fascists adopt the Ethiopian term 'Ras' for their regional party bosses?	106
Where did the trope of barbarians disdaining "decadent" Roman/Greek/fantasy cultures come from?	102
The Romans viewed the Etruscans as skillful diviners ans augurs, and the Gauls as warlike barbarians - what other "national" stereotypes did they have about the other neighboring peoples on the Italian peninsula like the Oscans, Ligurians, Samnites, Greeks etc.?	93