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[WP] Magic used to really work, but worked less and less over time as they fixed the bugs in the Universe that were being exploited. As a magician, your job is to discover new magic *and* a way of making it look "natural" so as to delay the discovery and fix of the bug.
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Often photos of Pre-Revolution Iran or Pre-Taliban Afghanistan are posted, showing how similar these countries were in the 60's and 70's to the West. How accurate was this estimation?
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The Byzantine Empire considered itself Roman, called itself Roman, was in fact the same polity as the Eastern Roman Empire. What did Western Europe, with its glorification of Rome, think of Byzantium?
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What did Western Europe think of the Byzantine Empire? Did they not consider it the Roman Empire (like the Byzantines themselves did)? If not, why not?
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What coordinate system do various space missions use? Are different ones used for different missions (e.g. centered on Earth and rotating, centered on the Sun and stationary, etc)?
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[ASTRONOMY] Do we keep finding tidally-locked exoplanets because being tidally locked is the more common state for planets, or because such planets are easier to detect?
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How did the deeply engrained sexism of early modern England work with the first Queens regnant, Mary and Elizabeth and her advisors and nobles?
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How do we predict that there will be an "island of stability" higher up in the periodic table? Is there a maximum size for atoms?
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What did western Europeans in the Middle Ages, with their praise of Rome, think of the Byzantine Empire? Did they view it as "Roman" or something else?
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