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What do we have more of: Roman scholars or Roman texts? Or: are there any piles of Latin and Greek texts in archives and museums somewhere just waiting for a qualified Roman scholar to look at them, or has it all been pretty much looked at?	7
"Science advances one funeral at a time." Is this an accurate statement for major scientific paradigm shifts of the mid 19th to late 20th centuries? Did modern accepted theories "win over" scientists from competing models, or did the old models' advocates just die?	7
It's the 11th or very early 12th century somewhere in continental Western Europe and I'm a young upper class woman. What do I aspire to if I want to live a "fulfilling"/"good" life?	7
When did childbirth become medicalized in North America? What kind of language was used to distinguish or exclude traditional midwifery from the practice of medicine?	7
How much of the state bureaucratic institutions of the late Western Roman Empire still existed by the mid 6th century? When Belisarius arrived in Italy would he have found the same tax operations, welfare mechanisms (if they existed at all), etc. that had existed in the early/mid 5th?	7
How did Filipino elites in the late Spanish & American eras acquire their wealth?	7
"Science advances one funeral at a time." Is this an accurate statement for major scientific paradigm shifts of the mid 19th to late 20th centuries?	7
Given that they always seemed to face the threat of a possible famine or something, what did medieval Europeans do, as individuals or groups, to ensure food security?	7
Why do Sikhs appear to be disproportionately represented in the American trucking industry? How is it related to the fact that Punjabis appear to be disproportionately represented in the Indian trucking industry?	7
Did early medieval Europeans accept Classical learning uncritically, particularly when it comes to "practical" topics like health/medicine? Would an early medieval scholar ever be confident enough to say "[Pseudo-]Apuleius was wrong"?	7

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