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How could males be so widespread in the medieval times? Purposefully breeding a horse and a donkey seems to be an awful lot of trouble to create a sterile animal, when the same gestation period could be used to breed more horses and donkeys

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How did Rex, the latin word for king, become a common dog name?

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Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette is known to us as simply Lafayette, how would his personal friends call him? Was he Lafayette to his american peers, or did they refer to him the same as the french

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Charlemagne has been depicted with a coat of arms that's a combination of the Imperial eagle and the fleur-de-lis. These symbols have obviously been retroactively atributed to him to signify his connection to the HRE and France, what coat of arms was he actually likely to use if any?

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Was there cult of Perun among the western slavs?

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Was King Arthur initially based on a historical figure?

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Would rapiers ever be carried as a weapon for self defence, or were they used solely as a dueling weapon?

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How did slavic pagans pray?

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Joseph Merrick, better known as The Elephant Man has been erroneusly refered to as "John Merrick" due to the writings of dr. Frederick Treves who was by many accounts a good friend in his last years of life, were the names "John" and "Joseph" in any way interchangable at the time?

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100 years before Salem there was a similar case, why do we remember this one case, and completely forget about the other?

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How could males be so widespread in the medieval times? Purposefully breeding a horse and a donkey seems to be an awful lot of trouble to create a sterile animal, when the same gestation period could be used to breed more horses and donkeys	2559
How did Rex, the latin word for king, become a common dog name?	21
Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette is known to us as simply Lafayette, how would his personal friends call him? Was he Lafayette to his american peers, or did they refer to him the same as the french	20
Charlemagne has been depicted with a coat of arms that's a combination of the Imperial eagle and the fleur-de-lis. These symbols have obviously been retroactively atributed to him to signify his connection to the HRE and France, what coat of arms was he actually likely to use if any?	19
Was there cult of Perun among the western slavs?	11
Was King Arthur initially based on a historical figure?	9
Would rapiers ever be carried as a weapon for self defence, or were they used solely as a dueling weapon?	6
How did slavic pagans pray?	6
Joseph Merrick, better known as The Elephant Man has been erroneusly refered to as "John Merrick" due to the writings of dr. Frederick Treves who was by many accounts a good friend in his last years of life, were the names "John" and "Joseph" in any way interchangable at the time?	2
100 years before Salem there was a similar case, why do we remember this one case, and completely forget about the other?	2