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In Homer and Arabian Nights, there are repeated mentions of mixing wine with water before drinking. Why did people in these societies do that? Was the practice widespread? Why did it end?

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A lot of the fruit and vegetable varieties in the current western diet are relatively recent developments courtesy intensive cross-breeding, etc. What fruit/veg. varieties would we find on the “plate” of a Golden Age Athenian of Pericles’ time?

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Photos from Mars always seem a bit dim to me. While Mars obviously gets less sunshine, being 1.64 AU away, it also has less atmosphere to attenuate the light. So theoretically, would the sunshine on Mars be less bright to a hypothetical naked eye?

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In Homer and Arabian Nights, there are repeated mentions of mixing wine with water before drinking. Why did people in these societies do that? Was the practice widespread? Why did it end?	329	AskHistorians
A lot of the fruit and vegetable varieties in the current western diet are relatively recent developments courtesy intensive cross-breeding, etc. What fruit/veg. varieties would we find on the “plate” of a Golden Age Athenian of Pericles’ time?	97	AskHistorians
Photos from Mars always seem a bit dim to me. While Mars obviously gets less sunshine, being 1.64 AU away, it also has less atmosphere to attenuate the light. So theoretically, would the sunshine on Mars be less bright to a hypothetical naked eye?	1	askscience