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If island chains like Hawai'i were formed by the continuous movement of a plate over a magma plume in the mantle, why do they take the form of separate islands rather than a continuous ridge?

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What were Greek and Roman attitudes towards foreign languages like?

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In a footnote to my copy of the Eclogues, the possibility of Virgil having read the Book of Isaiah is mentioned regarding the fourth, "messianic" Eclogue. How large was the intellectual exchange between Judaic/Near Eastern and Roman cultures at the time?

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What happened to the Tokugawa-era Japanese merchant class during the industrial revolution and rise of large corporations after the Meiji Restoration?

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What caused Indian tribes in the southwestern United States—barring smaller population movements in the last centuries—to maintain a relative degree of cultural/linguistic sovereignty? Or am I wrong in assuming this in the first place?

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By what criteria was something deemed worthy of publishing and preserving in classical antiquity? What are the registers/genres of writing we've lost because of this?

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How have restaurant kitchens changed over the past few hundred years? What about the businesses and systems that supply them?

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How did scholars in antiquity and the Middle Ages explain the irregular distribution of stars in the night sky?

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To the best of our current knowledge, what exactly is happening in the brain when we read?

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Why do a lot of events and descriptions in classical Indian epics (and their later representations) seem to involve such large numbers?

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If island chains like Hawai'i were formed by the continuous movement of a plate over a magma plume in the mantle, why do they take the form of separate islands rather than a continuous ridge?	1783	askscience
What were Greek and Roman attitudes towards foreign languages like?	43	AskHistorians
In a footnote to my copy of the Eclogues, the possibility of Virgil having read the Book of Isaiah is mentioned regarding the fourth, "messianic" Eclogue. How large was the intellectual exchange between Judaic/Near Eastern and Roman cultures at the time?	15	AskHistorians
What happened to the Tokugawa-era Japanese merchant class during the industrial revolution and rise of large corporations after the Meiji Restoration?	10	AskHistorians
What caused Indian tribes in the southwestern United States—barring smaller population movements in the last centuries—to maintain a relative degree of cultural/linguistic sovereignty? Or am I wrong in assuming this in the first place?	9	AskHistorians
By what criteria was something deemed worthy of publishing and preserving in classical antiquity? What are the registers/genres of writing we've lost because of this?	7	AskHistorians
How have restaurant kitchens changed over the past few hundred years? What about the businesses and systems that supply them?	5	AskHistorians
How did scholars in antiquity and the Middle Ages explain the irregular distribution of stars in the night sky?	4	AskHistorians
To the best of our current knowledge, what exactly is happening in the brain when we read?	3	askscience
Why do a lot of events and descriptions in classical Indian epics (and their later representations) seem to involve such large numbers?	2	AskHistorians