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I've heard in the Middle Ages peasants weren't allowed to travel and that it was very difficult to travel in general. But what about pilgrimages then? Who participated in them and how did they overcome the difficulties of travel?
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What do people mean when they say ancient Greek marble temples or Gothic cathedrals were destroyed by a fire? Wouldn't at least the stone structure survive a fire?
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Could a child king have been grounded? In general, how would a child who is a king have been disciplined as part of their education?
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How did foreign students living in Oxford or Cambridge in the 1400s get sent money from their families?
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How much power over the affairs of government did Queen Elizabeth I, Victoria and Elizabeth II have compared to each other?
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Would it be important to prove or disprove Goldbach's conjecture other than for the sake of knowing if it's true? Would it have wider important repercussions for the state of mathematical knowledge overall?
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How did European countries in the early Modern Era (1500-1600s) justify wars between them from an ethical and religious point of view?
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How successful were the Soviets at scientific research? What accounted for their successes and their shortcomings?
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Suppose you launched a probe from Earth with an ultra high-res camera pointing at the Sun and made it fly past each of the planets... would the recording you'd get actually look like one of those typical movie 'zooming out from Earth' scenes if you made it fast-forward at a high enough speed?
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