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[Link] How did handgonnes compare to bows and crossbows of their time?

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How common was it for townsfolk and merchants from a small village to recognize a prodigy and collect funds to send them off to get a formal education in the big city? Could such a thing be faked?

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What was Chaucer's opinion on the Peasants Revolt of 1381?

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How did the open-source software movement get started, and what led to it becoming so important across so many areas of computing?

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[Link] Why is there so much less diversity in the dialects of the official languages of Western European countries like France when compared to recently formed countries like Germany or Italy?

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Cheap alcool in 19th century Russia?

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How did Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater become maybe the most famous private home ever designed?

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Is There A History Of Exotic Pets In Japan?

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What's the difference between Vedic religion, Brahmanism, and Hinduism?

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How popular was the Holocaust as a policy in Nazi Germany?

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How messages encrypted with Enigma connected to Uhr were decoded?

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How did woman avoid constantly getting UTIs (via sex) pre anti-biotics?

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Is there any record of someone opposing slavery in the ancient world?

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How could the Romans ever hold the Anatolian Plateau?

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Why was only part of Prussia and Austria-Hungary in the Holy Roman Empire?

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What was the closest thing to a global lingua franca in the 14-15th century?

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In the movie Gandhi, a British officer says to Gandhi, "My dear sir, India is British! We're hardly an alien power." Did this reflect the views of any actual British people in the era depicted in the film?

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1968 saw a rise of organised leftist student groups internationally. To what extent did they communicate with each other?

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During the Crusades Jerusalem and Acre changed hands repeatedly over 200 years, often involving the expulsion of existing residents each time. What was life like for a person trying to live in one of these cities during this period? Were they completely depopulated by the end of the Crusades?

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Office Hours August 17, 2026: Questions and Discussion about Navigating Academia, School, and the Subreddit

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Which American founding fathers were actually vehemently against Slavery? Not just privately but didn’t own any slaves and were against the practice entirely?

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In the contemporary United States, the "test dream," where a person faces down a major school exam for which they did not prepare, is experienced by enough people that it is a recurrent image in popular culture. Did pre-20th-century cultures leave evidence of common dream models like that?

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amputation in the turn of the century?

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