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In HBO Rome whenever Antony is annoyed with someone he shows it by making them wait for him to finish whatever he was doing before they came to talk to him. Is this in character for the real man?

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in HBO Rome Lucius Vorenus takes over something called the aventine collegium then all the gangs in the City have to treat him as their leader. what is the aventine collegium?

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In the 1962 would the Soviet space program & NASA have still been using technology than ran on vacuum tubes instead of transistors?

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Was Al Capone really as unstable and capricious as he's portrayed in Boardwalk Empire?

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There's an episode of Rome where a character manages to over power the gladiators after being condemned to die in the arena. Did anything like that ever happen in real life? Would you still get excuted regardless?

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I'm given to understand that in 670 the Isle of Wight was one of the last places in England to remain pagan (Norse pagan ...I think?). How meny people (roughly) would have actually lived there in that time?

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You know A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, At the time Mark Twain wrote it did (most) historians still think King Arthur was a real historical figure?

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Would most people in England (as defined by it's modern borders for the sake of simplicity) consider themselves Roman, Briton or Saxon in AD470?

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What's the earliest known work to attempt to use to supposed animosity between cats and dogs for comedy?

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someone once told me that the structure of the US government borrowed more from native American societies than from European governments. Is that at all true?

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In HBO Rome whenever Antony is annoyed with someone he shows it by making them wait for him to finish whatever he was doing before they came to talk to him. Is this in character for the real man?	33	AskHistorians
in HBO Rome Lucius Vorenus takes over something called the aventine collegium then all the gangs in the City have to treat him as their leader. what is the aventine collegium?	33	AskHistorians
In the 1962 would the Soviet space program & NASA have still been using technology than ran on vacuum tubes instead of transistors?	33	AskHistorians
Was Al Capone really as unstable and capricious as he's portrayed in Boardwalk Empire?	33	AskHistorians
There's an episode of Rome where a character manages to over power the gladiators after being condemned to die in the arena. Did anything like that ever happen in real life? Would you still get excuted regardless?	33	AskHistorians
I'm given to understand that in 670 the Isle of Wight was one of the last places in England to remain pagan (Norse pagan ...I think?). How meny people (roughly) would have actually lived there in that time?	33	AskHistorians
You know A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, At the time Mark Twain wrote it did (most) historians still think King Arthur was a real historical figure?	33	AskHistorians
Would most people in England (as defined by it's modern borders for the sake of simplicity) consider themselves Roman, Briton or Saxon in AD470?	33	AskHistorians
What's the earliest known work to attempt to use to supposed animosity between cats and dogs for comedy?	33	AskHistorians
someone once told me that the structure of the US government borrowed more from native American societies than from European governments. Is that at all true?	33	AskHistorians