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I think it’s fair To say Herod is the only one of Rome’s vassal kings that most people have heard of. Were there many/any others(in the Near East or North Africa)?	78
Were there any Japanese Americans in the U.S navy in 1941? If "yes" what happened to them if they out to sea when Pearl Harbor happened?	78
In the history of Rome podcast, Mike Duncan says that when the vandals sacked Rome 455, they took took half of the roof of the temple of Jupiter. Why was the roof valuable? Why was the temple still there 140 years after Constantine?	78
When did people in Japan find out about the theory of (biological) Evolution? When did it become commonly accepted by scientists there?	78
suppose I'm a normal person living in moscow between 1988 and 1992, what effect does the full of the USSR have on my day to day life?	77
there's an episode of Star trek Voyager where a Nazi officer on the holodeck defendants the superiority of the German race by pointing out that the Germanic tribes managed to fight off the Romans. was that really a part of Nazi ideology? if "yes" did it generate hostility towards Italians?	76
I keep hearing Pro-choice People say harsh abortion laws will “take us back to the Dark ages”. How acceptable/unacceptable was abortion in the Early middle ages?	76
in HBO rome none of the streets in Rome have names or numbers, people just identify places by saying things like "my house is behind the street of the cloth dyers". were ancient cities really that disorganised?	76
has there ever been a (post 1066) known instance of a member of the English landed gentry marrying and/or having children with someone who wasn't white (IE not of European ancestry)?	75
In Back to the Future three doc Brown says his last name was von Braun until his dad changed it in WW1. Was having a German last name much of liability in WW1 era America?	75

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