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when Julian became roman emperor did he try to reverse any of the prohibitions Constantine (and his successors) tried to put on gladiatorial combat because they thought it was in Christian?	1
who is the earliest native American we can name?	1
In the alternate history novel I'm reading there's a sub-plot about someone falsely accusing someone else of being a jew to get back at them for something. did people do that in Nazi Germany in real life?	1
In the abstract (as in aside from political value) would a romen aristocrat think that pleb or a barbarian king had more value as person?	1
Before Jack the Ripper were most people (in Europe or America) aware that there were individuals who might kill just because they wanted to, rather than as a means to at end?	1
would Onna-bugeisha (female Japanese warriors) have worn the same gear/amour as male samurai in battle?	1
"I know I have the body of a weak, feeble woman" did Elizabeth really think she was physically "weak" & "feeble", or was she self consciously playing to the troops' misogyny, when she said that?	1
In the abstract (as in aside from political value) would a romen aristocrat think that a pleb or a barbarian king had more value as a person?	1
Why did Babbage need a grant from the government to get his Difference engine project off the ground? People have made Difference engines out of meccano, why was so expensive 180 years ago?	1
In Agora (film about Hypatia of alexandria) one of the Christian zealots claims that the world is at the bottom of a Giant chest with all the celestial objects stuck to the top, when someone mentions the Ptolemaic model. Was that really a common laymen superstition in the 400s?	1

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