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In modern chess, knocking down your own king is a universal sign of surrender, often done by young or beginner players. Has this always been a common practice, done mostly by lower level players?

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Geoduck is a very popular food item all over East Asia today, yet it is native to and still mostly farmed in the Pacific Northwest. How and when was geoduck introduced to East Asian cuisine to the point where it's vastly more recognizable there than in North America?

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The Macedonian phalanx involved keeping the sarissas at the back at a higher angle to deflect incoming arrows and javelins. Did this make any notable effect against projectiles?

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In a scene in the show The Pacific, several US marines steal supplies from the army. In particular, they take a crate of saltine crackers and seem especially excited to have found them, and it is later traded for several cans of peaches. How valuable really were saltines for US soldiers in WWII?

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The way classical languages (Greek and Latin) are taught today is very different from how more modern spoken languages are. How would the teaching of these languages differed from today's methods in the classical period?

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In modern chess, knocking down your own king is a universal sign of surrender, often done by young or beginner players. Has this always been a common practice, done mostly by lower level players?	136
Geoduck is a very popular food item all over East Asia today, yet it is native to and still mostly farmed in the Pacific Northwest. How and when was geoduck introduced to East Asian cuisine to the point where it's vastly more recognizable there than in North America?	44
The Macedonian phalanx involved keeping the sarissas at the back at a higher angle to deflect incoming arrows and javelins. Did this make any notable effect against projectiles?	43
In a scene in the show The Pacific, several US marines steal supplies from the army. In particular, they take a crate of saltine crackers and seem especially excited to have found them, and it is later traded for several cans of peaches. How valuable really were saltines for US soldiers in WWII?	22
The way classical languages (Greek and Latin) are taught today is very different from how more modern spoken languages are. How would the teaching of these languages differed from today's methods in the classical period?	9
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