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How much math would a Civil War battery commander know? The individual gunners? What sort of math did they know?

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Confederate General Jubal Early was known as Lee's "Bad Old Man" in part because of his frequent use of profanity. What would be considered profanity to folks like Early, Lee, or their Union counterparts?

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King James wrote the "Counterblaste to Tobacco" against the use of tobacco in the mid-17th century. What was King James's motivation in writing this and was this a common perspective?

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Was Margaret Murray's "Witch-Cult" hypothesis ever widely accepted by historians or was its prominence only due to Gerald Gardener's use of it in crafting Wicca?

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Davy Crockett allegedly named Hell's Kitchen when he said that New York Irishman are "too mean to swab Hell's kitchen." Why was Davy Crockett in the New York? Why was Hell's Kitchen already known as a rough place?

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In the James Bond film "Goldeneye," Russian General Ourumov blames his own attack on a satellite in Severnaya on "Siberian separatists." Were there such separatists in post-Communist Russia?

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What was the status of bowling in the United States before the introduction of automated pin setting machines in 1952?

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When and why did the Ph.D move from a rarely conferred degree to a requirement for certain positions in some fields?

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How did Chiropractic, given its pseudo-science origins, develop into a widely recognized and widely utilized field?

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How did professions that used lots of paper, like bankers and lawyers, preserve the hundreds of pages of documents in the 19th Century?

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How much math would a Civil War battery commander know? The individual gunners? What sort of math did they know?	260
Confederate General Jubal Early was known as Lee's "Bad Old Man" in part because of his frequent use of profanity. What would be considered profanity to folks like Early, Lee, or their Union counterparts?	258
King James wrote the "Counterblaste to Tobacco" against the use of tobacco in the mid-17th century. What was King James's motivation in writing this and was this a common perspective?	233
Was Margaret Murray's "Witch-Cult" hypothesis ever widely accepted by historians or was its prominence only due to Gerald Gardener's use of it in crafting Wicca?	186
Davy Crockett allegedly named Hell's Kitchen when he said that New York Irishman are "too mean to swab Hell's kitchen." Why was Davy Crockett in the New York? Why was Hell's Kitchen already known as a rough place?	172
In the James Bond film "Goldeneye," Russian General Ourumov blames his own attack on a satellite in Severnaya on "Siberian separatists." Were there such separatists in post-Communist Russia?	160
What was the status of bowling in the United States before the introduction of automated pin setting machines in 1952?	155
When and why did the Ph.D move from a rarely conferred degree to a requirement for certain positions in some fields?	153
How did Chiropractic, given its pseudo-science origins, develop into a widely recognized and widely utilized field?	152
How did professions that used lots of paper, like bankers and lawyers, preserve the hundreds of pages of documents in the 19th Century?	150