/u/huphelmeyer's posts in /r/AskHistorians
Would the Latin language as spoken by academics and clergy in modern centuries be mutually intelligible to ancient native speakers?
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The three college football national titles that Army claims are 1944, 1945, and 1946. Is this due to the best young football players of the time electing to attend West Point as a means of avoiding the draft / traditional enlistment or is the timing of these titles merely coincidental?
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If two "unrelated" people share a surname, did they inherit that name from a common ancestor, or was that name independently created.
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