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Besides leaving grand monuments to their dead & despite being around as long as they were - it doesn't seem that Egyptian culture left their mark on the modern world (language, inventions etc) Is there any consensus as to why this is?

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Looking for a book of the Mongol conquest (destruction) of Bagdad and/or the end of the golden age of Islam. Can anyone recommend anything good?

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Do you find the more you learn about history, the less religious you become?

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Researchers have resumed the search for Amelia Earhart's body. Why is finding her remains so important?

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Were women used as soldiers in Nazi germany?

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If evidence now disproves it, how did the belief that the Jews were used as slaves to build the pyramids come about?

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Crime in ancient Rome

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What did the French do (actual or perceived) to make the Americans and British feel they were ungrateful for their efforts in WWII?

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Is there any truth to the story that when the Egyptians conquered what is now Libya, they took 13,000+ penis' of the defeated enemy as trophies?

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How much truth is there to the stories of war pigs being set alight to frighten enemy elephants. Are these tales mostly apocryphal?

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Besides leaving grand monuments to their dead & despite being around as long as they were - it doesn't seem that Egyptian culture left their mark on the modern world (language, inventions etc) Is there any consensus as to why this is?	19
Looking for a book of the Mongol conquest (destruction) of Bagdad and/or the end of the golden age of Islam. Can anyone recommend anything good?	19
Do you find the more you learn about history, the less religious you become?	19
Researchers have resumed the search for Amelia Earhart's body. Why is finding her remains so important?	19
Were women used as soldiers in Nazi germany?	17
If evidence now disproves it, how did the belief that the Jews were used as slaves to build the pyramids come about?	16
Crime in ancient Rome	16
What did the French do (actual or perceived) to make the Americans and British feel they were ungrateful for their efforts in WWII?	16
Is there any truth to the story that when the Egyptians conquered what is now Libya, they took 13,000+ penis' of the defeated enemy as trophies?	15
How much truth is there to the stories of war pigs being set alight to frighten enemy elephants. Are these tales mostly apocryphal?	15