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When and why were titles given to famous and important people in the past, such as Ivan the Terrible or Vlad the Impaler? Were they retroactively attributed by historians? And when and why has this fallen out of style?

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Having read about how normal homosexual relationships were in greco roman culture and history, where and when did the homosexual condemnation begin?

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Why was Europe divided into so many small countries whilst other continents tend to have larger nations like China/Russia/India in Asia, the US in America, and Australia in Oceania?

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At what point did full plate armour + chainmail + gambeson within become ineffective against ballistic warfare? And before the invention of kevlar and ceramic plate armour, did people just 'try to not get shot'?

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Seeing as there have been examples of most forms of Politico-economical system being experimented by various societies, what's the closest the world's gotten to 'minimal government, free market rules' Capitalism?

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Have walls been an effective deterrent in history? How?

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How much has the biology of the human race changed in the last 10,000 years of history? Any major evolutionary traits that were developed during this time? Or have we stayed around the same ever since societies were first formed?

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Why did the ww2 germans disguise their gas chambers as showers?

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What are some historical events that can't be adapted as non-fiction due to the events being too unbelievable?

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What were some of the first languages to have recorded, defined grammatical structure and vocabulary?

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When and why were titles given to famous and important people in the past, such as Ivan the Terrible or Vlad the Impaler? Were they retroactively attributed by historians? And when and why has this fallen out of style?	3961
Having read about how normal homosexual relationships were in greco roman culture and history, where and when did the homosexual condemnation begin?	49
Why was Europe divided into so many small countries whilst other continents tend to have larger nations like China/Russia/India in Asia, the US in America, and Australia in Oceania?	39
At what point did full plate armour + chainmail + gambeson within become ineffective against ballistic warfare? And before the invention of kevlar and ceramic plate armour, did people just 'try to not get shot'?	3
Seeing as there have been examples of most forms of Politico-economical system being experimented by various societies, what's the closest the world's gotten to 'minimal government, free market rules' Capitalism?	2
Have walls been an effective deterrent in history? How?	2
How much has the biology of the human race changed in the last 10,000 years of history? Any major evolutionary traits that were developed during this time? Or have we stayed around the same ever since societies were first formed?	1
Why did the ww2 germans disguise their gas chambers as showers?	1
What are some historical events that can't be adapted as non-fiction due to the events being too unbelievable?	0
What were some of the first languages to have recorded, defined grammatical structure and vocabulary?	0