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I've recently learned that most 'dungeons' I've seen while visiting castles in my homeland Spain were actually water deposits decorated with fake racks. When did the obsession with imagined dungeons start and why? And did castles have real dungeons at all?
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In 'Braveheart', there's a scene where the princess says that she gave gold to charity 'to relieve the suffering of this war children'. Did this kind of wartime charity exist in the Middle Ages?
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How was the relationship of the original hippies with television? Were they interested in it? Was television interested in them? Did the hippies care how television might or might not represent them and their movement? How important was television in their lives?
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Why did Hitler call himself 'Führer' instead of 'Kaiser', given how obsessed the Nazis were with Roman symbols and the fact that they called Germany the 'Reich'?
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When the Arabs invaded Spain, did they bring camels with them? If they did so, why camels aren't found in present day Spain? If they didn't, why did they choose not to, given how desert-like is most of Southern Spain?
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I'm reading about the Aztecs and the Maya and it seems that being killed in a sacrifice was a normal and socially accepted way of ending one's life. My question is: did they mourn their dead? Did they feel the absence of loved ones? Did they feel attached to one another?
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The end of the Portuguese and French empires led to long and bloody wars of independence in Africa and many atrocities. In comparison, it seems that the British empire disappeared in a much more measured and negotiated way. Why this difference between the last colonial empires and their demise?
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