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Angeln/Anglia gives it name to the Angles and thus the English. But modern Angeln seems very unimportant. Was it more heavily settled during the period of Anglo-Saxon migration to Britain?
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Why were the Byzantines unable to take advantage of the various Fitnas (civil wars) that struck the Rashidun, Umayyad and Abbasid caliphates to reclaim territory?
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In species where polar bodies can fuse with an egg for the purpose of parthenogenesis, are these species born with their lifetime of eggs already in their ovaries like humans (therefore the immature egg is already 'fertilized' waiting in the ovary)? Or do they produce new eggs constantly?
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Did the defeat of a people in the ancient Near East also imply the defeat of their gods? For example, when the Babylonians conquer Judah, did they (the Babylonians) see it as Marduk conquering Yahweh?
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In Kotkin's second volume of his Stalin biography he says "In 1939...Nikolai Pogodin ... had taken in 732,000 [rubles] in royalties and payments." How did royalties work in the USSR? And what could Pogodin have spent his money on?
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Did the emergence and success of Christianity influence the development of Jewish theology/doctrine?
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Nowadays amber with prehistoric insects preserved in it can sell for quite a bit more than just plain amber. But in the medieval trade of Baltic amber, did trapped insects increase or decrease the value of amber?
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Did the US ever consider intervening on the side of Israel in any of its wars against the Arab states?
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