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Good books on the Taiping Rebellion and surrounding troubles/unrest?

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Under Akbar, the Mughal Empire supposedly had vast libraries of texts in Persian, Sanskrit, Greek and Latin. Did they ever remark on a possible shared origin of all these IE languages?

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What do the proportions of participants/abstainers look like in atrocities and genocides?

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What's the source of the latin phrasing "Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam"?

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Popular discourse treats Harun al-Rashid as a superlatively great ruler, but he is also a significant literary figure. Is the popular depiction of him based on reliable sources?

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The Buddhist "Middle Way" and the Classical Greek "Golden Mean" appear to be conceptually similar. Are they thought to have developed independently, or was the idea transferred to Buddhism via the Indo-Greeks?

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Did Allied soldiers really use the Behistun inscription for target practice in WWII?

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When did the decay of language begin?

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The Strauss-Howe generational theory of U.S. history seems culturally ubiquitous. What's the view in Academia?

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Good books on the Taiping Rebellion and surrounding troubles/unrest?	1
Under Akbar, the Mughal Empire supposedly had vast libraries of texts in Persian, Sanskrit, Greek and Latin. Did they ever remark on a possible shared origin of all these IE languages?	1
What do the proportions of participants/abstainers look like in atrocities and genocides?	1
What's the source of the latin phrasing "Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam"?	1
Popular discourse treats Harun al-Rashid as a superlatively great ruler, but he is also a significant literary figure. Is the popular depiction of him based on reliable sources?	1
The Buddhist "Middle Way" and the Classical Greek "Golden Mean" appear to be conceptually similar. Are they thought to have developed independently, or was the idea transferred to Buddhism via the Indo-Greeks?	0
Did Allied soldiers really use the Behistun inscription for target practice in WWII?	0
When did the decay of language begin?	0
The Strauss-Howe generational theory of U.S. history seems culturally ubiquitous. What's the view in Academia?	0