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Somebody posted on r/askanthropology that the knowledge of how to set a bone, transferred by oral tradition since time immemorial, is believed to have been forgotten in Europe during the Early Middle Ages. Does the forensic archeological record actually support this?	313
Why did the early Catholic Church forbid widows from remarrying to in-laws? Did the practice cause a kind of moral outrage prior to being banned or was it for political reasons?	52
Charles de Gaulle lived in London from 1940 to 1942 while leading the French government-in-exile, during the height of the Blitz. Although precision targeting was difficult with the area bombing techniques of the time, were there any attempts by the Luftwaffe to target him specifically?	22
The Aztecs had a system of botanical gardens in Texcoco. I've since heard that they would experiment and test which plants were useful for medicine and reference numerical records of this. AFAIK the scientific method only developed once in post-renaissance Europe so is there any truth to this?	13
In 1898 Utah was the first state to legalise women jurors. Compared to other states, was this an isolated progressive stance introduced due to practicalities, or did Utah have increased gender equality across the board?	12
Were catholics in Stuart England really executed by the use of heavy weights?	6
I went to a living history museum (UK) and noticed that a late iron age exhibit of a fairly wealthy roundhouse had a woven rug on an otherwise plain floor, and a Tudor building had a few rugs on a plank floor, but two exhibits from intervening time periods had no rugs or carpet at all. Why?	4
How were Victorian streets and neighbourhoods planned and built?	1
How did the people working on Arpanet view its future? When it was restricted to a few military contractors/installations and universities did anybody envision it growing to cover the country?	1

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