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Do we know how Latin is supposed to be properly pronounced? If yes, how?

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How did prostitutes work before condoms? Did they just have babies all the time?

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"Few inventions have been so simple as the stirrup, but few have had so catalytic an influence on history." – Lynn White Jr. Why?

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Where did Russians\Slavs come from?

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Did ancient Romans and Greeks literally believe in physical, observable existence of the Olympian gods and other mythology, or was it more symbolic or tongue-in-cheek?

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Was Gilgamesh even a real person? How much do we know about this?

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How did it happen that many drugs (marijuana, heroin, etc) ended up banned pretty much worldwide pretty much simultaneously?

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How were periods dealt with before the invention of tampons\pads?

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How literally did ancient greeks\romans take their mythology? Did they literally honestly believe that if they climbed Olympus they could physically meet Zeus and shake his hand?

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If you were black in antebellum American south, did that automatically make you a slave? Or were there free black people?

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Title	Upvotes	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
Do we know how Latin is supposed to be properly pronounced? If yes, how?	361
How did prostitutes work before condoms? Did they just have babies all the time?	334
"Few inventions have been so simple as the stirrup, but few have had so catalytic an influence on history." – Lynn White Jr. Why?	174
Where did Russians\Slavs come from?	121
Did ancient Romans and Greeks literally believe in physical, observable existence of the Olympian gods and other mythology, or was it more symbolic or tongue-in-cheek?	65
Was Gilgamesh even a real person? How much do we know about this?	43
How did it happen that many drugs (marijuana, heroin, etc) ended up banned pretty much worldwide pretty much simultaneously?	40
How were periods dealt with before the invention of tampons\pads?	30
How literally did ancient greeks\romans take their mythology? Did they literally honestly believe that if they climbed Olympus they could physically meet Zeus and shake his hand?	22
If you were black in antebellum American south, did that automatically make you a slave? Or were there free black people?	21