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In the series Stranger Things, set in 1984, one character is able to use the internet to hack into a school's computers and change grades. Did schools in rural Indiana even have access to the internet then?

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When was Hellenic paganism supplanted in Greece by Christianity? Were there still pockets of pagan beliefs into the Middle Ages?

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In Kingdom Come: Deliverance, a tool-tip says if a stolen good is too hot to be sold, see a miller to ask as a fence. Were millers widely seen as fences in fifteenth-century Bohemia?

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Do the mortality rates of early medieval Scandinavians reflect the bellicose nature of afterlife beliefs?

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Title	Upvotes	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
In the series Stranger Things, set in 1984, one character is able to use the internet to hack into a school's computers and change grades. Did schools in rural Indiana even have access to the internet then?	369
When was Hellenic paganism supplanted in Greece by Christianity? Were there still pockets of pagan beliefs into the Middle Ages?	170
In Kingdom Come: Deliverance, a tool-tip says if a stolen good is too hot to be sold, see a miller to ask as a fence. Were millers widely seen as fences in fifteenth-century Bohemia?	26
Do the mortality rates of early medieval Scandinavians reflect the bellicose nature of afterlife beliefs?	5