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Is it true Rousseau abandoned his 5 children? What happened to them? Why would we ever value his book on child-rearing, if he literally dumped them in an orphanarium because they were inconvenient for him?

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How much of an ‘economic populist’ was Caesar really?

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What did medieval people think eye floaters were?

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I read that Socrates supposedly went into trances like a mystic. Where can I learn more about the "mystical" side of this thinker?

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What happened to the Tlaxcala?

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How much did a late medieval county bring in in revenue?

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Thomas Sowell said that Ronald Reagan was ‘so liberal the FBI was watching him’ in his youth. Is this true? Wikipedia says he was a Democrat before 1962. Where can I learn more about the ‘liberal’ (by the American meaning of the word) Ronald Reagan?

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How did the Persians (Cyrus on) conquer/unify their empire given the geography of Persia?

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Why didn't Marx offer a better form of government than "dictatorship of the proletariat," given the fallibility of human nature?

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Why doesn't Alexander's father Philip get the epithet "the great"?

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Title	Upvotes	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
Is it true Rousseau abandoned his 5 children? What happened to them? Why would we ever value his book on child-rearing, if he literally dumped them in an orphanarium because they were inconvenient for him?	154
How much of an ‘economic populist’ was Caesar really?	35
What did medieval people think eye floaters were?	30
I read that Socrates supposedly went into trances like a mystic. Where can I learn more about the "mystical" side of this thinker?	12
What happened to the Tlaxcala?	11
How much did a late medieval county bring in in revenue?	11
Thomas Sowell said that Ronald Reagan was ‘so liberal the FBI was watching him’ in his youth. Is this true? Wikipedia says he was a Democrat before 1962. Where can I learn more about the ‘liberal’ (by the American meaning of the word) Ronald Reagan?	7
How did the Persians (Cyrus on) conquer/unify their empire given the geography of Persia?	3
Why didn't Marx offer a better form of government than "dictatorship of the proletariat," given the fallibility of human nature?	3
Why doesn't Alexander's father Philip get the epithet "the great"?	2