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"First Nations" is an unusually poetic name for an indigenous group. How did it come to be the official term for those peoples, ahead of something more clinical like "Native" or "Indigenous" Canadians?
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In Romance of the Three Kingdoms, general Xiahou Dun was said to have swallowed his own eyeball after taking an arrow to it. Did this gesture have any specific cultural meaning, or was it simply an act of grotesque warrior bravado?
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Can anyone give me a rough outline of the peace deals offered to Palestine by Israel, what was offered, and why they were refused?
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Warhammer designer Phil Kelly makes mention of pictures of "Central Asian warriors" with "amazing piercings, like filleting knives stuck into their chests". Who were these people, and was this a genuine cultural practice?
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Philip the Good was reportedly so furious with the death of Jacques de Lalaing that he had all the residents of Poucques Castle hanged, except priests, children and lepers. Why were lepers spared?
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Is there consensus among historians as to the involvement of the CIA in Australia's Whitlam Dismissal?
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Guy Francis Laking posits that the guisarme was "a weapon of such death-dealing power that early in the Xlllth century an agitation against its use in legitimate warfare was actively supported." What does this mean?
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