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In AD355 Julian the apostate was studying in Athens. Which philosophers likely would have been there then?

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I was just reading a book set in the 1450s. it starts with some English fishermen stopping in Le Croisic (France) to buy salt for salting down cod. Why would Le Croisic salt be different/better than the salt you can make anywhere there's sea water & means to boil/evaporate it?

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Did the people who lived around the Amazon river in pre-columbian times (circa-1400s) practice many/any forms of agriculture?

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Guy in another sub-reddit told me that the US has had such a high military budget for the last several decades because if there were a war in East Asia its probable that the US could lose a large proportion of its troops & hardware to enemy attacks well in transit the pacific. Is that at all true?

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why do we say "pharaoh" instead of "king of Egypt"?

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Why did they make it a rule that the U.S. Supreme Court won't settle an issue until there's a relevant case at hand? Why were they opposed to the notion of them settling an issue abstractly before it actually arose practically?

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what sort of social standing did architects, engineers and the like (IE people who did practical things for a living, but whose work required a great deal of technical knowledge and responsibility) have in Roman society?

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In the late 18th & early 19th century What motivated men (non Native American men) to travel into unsettled country & become fur trappers?

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I've been told that the Isle of Wight was one of the last parts of Britain to still be pagan in the Early Middle Ages. I've read that at the time the island was a Jutish kingdom, does that mean when people say "pagan" they mean a form of Norse Religion?

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There's a bit in Nixon (Oliver stone movie) set in the mid 60s where Nixon is an a party and a girl asks him if he likes Elvis and he says "yes". by the mid 1960s would it have been politically ok for a republican politician to admit to liking rock-n-role?

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In AD355 Julian the apostate was studying in Athens. Which philosophers likely would have been there then?	4	AskHistorians
I was just reading a book set in the 1450s. it starts with some English fishermen stopping in Le Croisic (France) to buy salt for salting down cod. Why would Le Croisic salt be different/better than the salt you can make anywhere there's sea water & means to boil/evaporate it?	4	AskHistorians
Did the people who lived around the Amazon river in pre-columbian times (circa-1400s) practice many/any forms of agriculture?	4	AskHistorians
Guy in another sub-reddit told me that the US has had such a high military budget for the last several decades because if there were a war in East Asia its probable that the US could lose a large proportion of its troops & hardware to enemy attacks well in transit the pacific. Is that at all true?	4	AskHistorians
why do we say "pharaoh" instead of "king of Egypt"?	4	AskHistorians
Why did they make it a rule that the U.S. Supreme Court won't settle an issue until there's a relevant case at hand? Why were they opposed to the notion of them settling an issue abstractly before it actually arose practically?	4	AskHistorians
what sort of social standing did architects, engineers and the like (IE people who did practical things for a living, but whose work required a great deal of technical knowledge and responsibility) have in Roman society?	4	AskHistorians
In the late 18th & early 19th century What motivated men (non Native American men) to travel into unsettled country & become fur trappers?	4	AskHistorians
I've been told that the Isle of Wight was one of the last parts of Britain to still be pagan in the Early Middle Ages. I've read that at the time the island was a Jutish kingdom, does that mean when people say "pagan" they mean a form of Norse Religion?	4	AskHistorians
There's a bit in Nixon (Oliver stone movie) set in the mid 60s where Nixon is an a party and a girl asks him if he likes Elvis and he says "yes". by the mid 1960s would it have been politically ok for a republican politician to admit to liking rock-n-role?	4	AskHistorians