How did Roman sisters refer to each other casually, if they all had the same name?

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The most accepted current sources on what happened with Galileo, Giordano Bruno, and Hypatia respectively?

I heard of them as historical victims who were warriors of science or something. I know the the hhird one got a movie about her which I've never seen.

What I've read of them points to propaganda on both sides. Who are the best researchers to read to learn about those three, what they stood for, and how their relations with their lands' authorities (be they secular or divine) were like?

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Woodstock is sometimes thought of as as the defining event for the Baby Boomer generation. To what extent did you young people outside of the Northeast know about Woodstock, and what did they think about it? Why is it thought of as being a unique and important event?

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What was the suicide rate of American slaves?

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How popular was classical music versus other songs in their mutual contemporary period? Was it based on class?

In the 1700/1800s how popular was classical music? How did this compare to the songs you might hear at a pub/bar at night or other folk/local music vs Mozart or Chopin?

Who listened to classical music and how did it spread in popularity?

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How were non-chalcedonian Christians treated in the crusader states?

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Do we know any about the origins of the Cerne Abbas giant?

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Why didn't Greek hoplites wear more armor?

Depictions of ancient Greek soldiers show them in a cuirass and helmet and occasionally with greaves. Never do they seem to be wearing anything to protect their hands, forearms, thighs, groins, or even their necks. Wikipedia states:

"Little other armor was worn, and fatal blows to unprotected areas (such as the bladder or neck) are recorded in ancient art and poetry."

Why didn't the Greeks armor their warriors more comprehensively?

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Did Any Irish Participate in the Thirty Years' War?

I'm asking more specifically about the French intervention phase from 1635-1648. In my research, I'm seeing a lot of information on Scottish involvement, but I'm more interested in how the Irish were involved. I realize, however, that many were probably extremely occupied with the Three Kingdoms Wars, famine, and various rebellions at the time. So, I understand that they may not have been involved at all. I did find a work called "Irish Participation in Scandianavian Armies during the Thirty Years' War" but have no access to the document and, accounting for the spelling error, am unsure of the piece's validity regardless.

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Did the Vikings refer to themselves as “Northmen” within Scandinavia?

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What are the arguments in favor of the first summiting of Everest by George Mallory and Andrew Irvine?

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How did the US and Royal Navy submarine services interact during the First World War?

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Where does the misconception that Italy switched sides during WWII come from? Is it some form of post-war propaganda or is there some more complex historical context behind it?

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What is the consensus on professor Susan Oosthuizen’s Contention that the Anglo Saxon invasion was probably a myth?

I listened to BBC podcast interview discussing her book The Emergence of the English (Past Imperfect) where in 45 minutes she lays out her thesis. I must say I’m not fully convinced. Centrally, she can’t really explain away why the British started speaking English. It can’t be because it was a multilingual world and it just happened to be the easiest to learn so it stuck. She also had a rather silly analogy of archaeologists in the distant future discovering an Ikea in England and concluding the country was conquered by Swedes at one point, as a means of explaining away german artifacts.

I can accept the idea of a german invasion as being exaggerated or simplistic , but I think her conjectures are misguided.

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During the US Civil War, Confederates weren't shy about saying they were fighting for slavery. After the war, apologists said the Confederates were fighting for states' rights. Was there a transition period after the war where Confederates still said "Of course we were fighting to protect slavery"?

If the change from "We are fighting for slavery" to "We were fighting for states' rights" was immediate, why did the people who were so proud to defend slavery in 1860 as the "cornerstone" of their new government suddenly become interested in covering up their motives? I would have thought most would have said in, say, 1866, "We were fighting for slavery and you were wrong to make us give it up."

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Child sacrifice in Peruvian history - would they sacrifice their own children willingly or were their children taken from them forcefully?

For example the 200+ children in the attached article.

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Is there a concise year where we went into the “modern era”? Or a more generalized time when that came to be?

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Do we know for sure that Hitler died in that bunker?

There have been reports of him sighted in argentina, and we know that a sub full of high ranking nazis fled there. And we havent been able to identify the remains that are purported to be his.

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Why didn't the USSR tried to conquer Europe before the rise of Nazi Germany? What was there to stop them?

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Are there any books about the theory that ancient civilisations were advanced as hell and have just been completely wiped out?

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How was female homosexuality viewed in the Women's Royal Navy Service during and after WWII?

What were the experiences of lesbian and bisexual servicewomen like, and how did the official/unofficial understanding for Wrens differ from the ways both female and male homosexuality were understood and penalized in other branches of the military?

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Is archery believed to have been invented one time or invented independently multiple times?

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Were deities immanent in early Greek religion? For example, was Helios god *of* the sun or was he the sun you saw in the sky every day? Was Chronos god *of* time, or was he time, and thus a constant part of lived experience?

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Does the location of the country determine whether a country can join NATO?

Other questions:

Answered: Can counties like South Africa and India join since they’re part of the British commonwealth?

Answered: Can Asian countries like Japan join as well?

Answered: Can Mexico be join because it’s part of North America?

I had to repost this because of a spelling error

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My great grandmother was born in Chisinau sometime during the interwar period. Would that make her moldovan, Romanian, Russian or Ukrainian?

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