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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?
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20th century film and TV often used Warsaw Pact weapons (AK47/AKM, SVD, Tokarev) as a visual shorthand for "bad guy". Were there weapons or clothing that signaled "bad guy" in medieval and early Renaissance manuscript art?
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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?
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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?
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20th century film & TV often used Warsaw Pact weapons (AK47/AKM, SVD, Tokarev) as a visual shorthand for "bad guy". Were there weapons or clothing that signaled "bad guy" in medieval & early Renaissance, art, especially manuscript art?
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How did indigenous American religious life in the U.S. change between the late 1950s and 90s? Did the emergence of national-level Native American activism coincide with a reassessment of the role of Christianity/non-native religion in indigenous life and history?
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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?
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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"?
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