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Why did Seneca write De Ira (On Anger) when he did? Did Romans perceive Rome (or its politics or its culture specifically) as angrier in the 1st century than it had been before? If so, did other people address the "problem of anger"?	2
Did Western military strategists in the 19th and 20th century ever prefer wounding enemies over killing them?	2
Aside from scalping, what purposes, ritually, strategically, socially, etc. did mutilation of enemy corpses by natives serve during the wars of the Great Plains in the 19th century?	2
If I wanted a good, annotated English translation of Ibn Fadlan's observations of the Rus, where should I look?	2
What was the visibility & public acceptability (if any) of queer women in the R&B, hip-hop, & rap scenes of the 1990s?	2
How early on did the association between the incestuous reproduction & birth defects emerge in the medieval Christian & Islamic world (or the areas that would become them if earlier)?	2
What was scientific publication access like in the USSR from the late 1950s-mid 1970s? What kind of access did Western scientists have to Soviet learning, and vice versa?	1
Was there a genre of crime literature in ancient Rome & the broader Mediterranean? Did they have a Robin Hood or invent folklore about gangsters? Did they recognize their stories as romanticized/exploitative the way we sometimes see the crime genre (& "true crime") now?	1
How aware were young people in the Soviet Union (and the post-Soviet 90s), especially in Russia, of American kid/teen pop culture holidays & activities like Halloween & proms?	1
Let's say I'm in a big city somewhere in the Anglophone world in the 1850s. I walk in a straight line (or as straight as I can get in pre-automobile streets) for about 3 miles (4.8 km). What's the rough break-down of the businesses I pass?	1

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