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As it became clearer that the glory that was Rome wasn't returning in the centuries after the city had been sacked, are we aware of any significant migration from the western half of the empire to the east?
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Jack the Ripper seems like the first 'famous' serial killer. Is this a case of right place, right time, as it were? The press had been important, at least politically, at least in America, for almost a century by this time. What had changed?
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In HBO's 'Rome', the Senate's vote to declare Caesar an outlaw is clearly intended to be vetoed by Marc Antony; do we know if this is a realistic depiction of the Senate's intentions?
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Between David Bowie, Queen, AC/DC and the Kinks, hard rock was remarkably receptive to gender-bending experimentation in the '70s (barely even disguising their double entendres); how did this environment evolve to be, and what, if anything, changed in subsequent decades?
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Vice President is famously a thankless role with little political function. Was a big deal made of Theodore Roosevelt being added to the ticket in 1900? How famous was he at the time? Were he and McKinley of similar ideological dispositions?
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What's the history of the British crown jewels? Which king forged them, and how did they become the subject of lore?
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Did Marc Antony expect to be Caesar's heir? He seems to have acted as though he saw himself as Caesar's political heir. When he claimed during Caesar's funeral that Caesar had left part of his fortune to all Romans, how did he expect to get away with it, if it wasn't true?
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How was the trench warfare stalemate broken on the western front in WWI? Was it simple attrition, changes in technology, or changes in strategy that led to the breakthrough?
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I've heard a sun tan was at one time regarded as a signifier that a person worked outside, and thus was looked down upon (at least by the upper class). Was this true, and, if so, when and how did this change?
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