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You know Pythagoras Theorem. 1000 years ago would many/any thinkers in the Far East (particularly china or japan) have been aware of it? If "yes" were they getting it from some original source unrelated to Pythagoras?
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Most of FAQ threads about bow & arrow technology say it didn’t become widespread in the Americas until a thousand or so years ago. Why didn’t the Olmecs or Mayans invent the bow independently long before that? They were complex agricultural/urban civilization but lacked something so basic?
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There's an episode of ST:TNG where Picard tells Wesley that before Marco Polo most people in Europe didn't know whether or not China really existed. That's not true ....right?
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I'm a US army soldier taking part in Indian wars on the US frontier in the 1870s, what are my rations like? Have they improved/advanced much since the civil war?
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I was once watching a TV documentary about Rome with my dad. One of the experts started to talk about the orderly way Romans did combat, my dad turn to me & said it reminded him of how the riot police used to operate back when he was one in the 1980s. Is it just a confidence the two are similar?
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a service station (truck stop) near my house sells Chicken Tikka Masala with Basmati Rice for £7.29 a serving. suppose I live in Stoke-on-trent in 1717 instead of 2017, how much would all the ingredients to make that cost me? could I even get them all with any amount of money?
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in England in 1894 if you did an important job (like say were PM or a high court judge or something) and you were an opium addict, would anybody mind so long as you were high functioning?
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is it likely that Shakespeare knew Richard III had a back deformity and chose to exaggerate it in his play? if "yes" how, seeing as he was born several decades after Richard died, could he have known?
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In 1769 would most/any normal people in japan have been aware that the Emperor held little to no real power, and that the shogun was really running the show?
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