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Did the Mandinka really use the invented "Mumbo-Jumbo" character to resolve disputes and pounish women by convincing their wives that he was a real, supernatural entity?
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Did the terms road/street/avenue/boulevard/etc ever refer to distinct phenomena, or were they always synonymous?
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How seriously did people in the early twentieth century take the idea that Mars was home to intelligent life?
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Were the bronze age palace economies really centrally-planned redistribution economies? How did they make distribution decisions without a modern information/communication infrastructure?
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During the Late Bronze Age, what kinds of objects would be made of iron, and how common/available were they?
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Why did it take so long after the fall of Rome for Jews in the diaspora to return to the Levant and re-establish the state of Israel?
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Why did Islam model itself after Judaism? What kind of influence did Judaism have in the region at the time?
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