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why didn’t the Ancient Egyptians conquer the rest of North Africa to the west of them?	147
"Two Native Americans landed in Holland in 60 B.C" I just read that in a Cracked article called "6 Ridiculous Lies You Believe About the Founding of America". what are they talking about?	147
you know follies (IE pretend ancient ruins built by 18/19th century english aristocrats, to make their estate seem more ancient), did they actually have the desired effect at the the time, or did people back then find the idea just as silly and vain as we do?	147
I think I imagine native (North) American dogs as being more wolf or Husky like than old world hounds. Did the first Whites in New England describe the native dogs at all?	147
What is the earliest culture to exhibit the women long hair, men short hair convention that dominates in the western world today?	146
suppose in 1557 you asked an educated European what they thought was the highest civilisation on earth if you exclude all of Europe from consideration. What would they most likely say?	146
In the 30s and 40s were American super hero comics often/ever sold outside the US? If "yes" were they translated into other languages?	146
In the first Sherlock Holmes book Watson lists a collection of subjects Holmes was ignorant of (it later turns out he's blocking out subjects that aren't helpful to mystery solving), One of the subjects is "western philosophy". would that be considered a bad thing in the 1880s?	145
in HBO Rome the characters start talking like the Republic is just dead forever right after the Battle of Pharsalus. is it realistic they would have been that pessimistic that soon?	145
In the UK children are told to leave a mince pie & sherry for Santa, in the US there told to leave him milk & cookies. I always assumed the difference was because Americans were less comfortable with alcohol in public life, back when the Santa myth was being established. Am I right about that?	144

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