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The island seems in a good position to be an important harbor, and I suppose that's why they decided to settle there, and I understand that the disappearance of the colonist was tragic, but the island is still a good place for a city so, why isn't there a city there today?

It seems like shows and books always discuss human sacrifice in South and Central America and rarely anywhere else. Was it common elsewhere? Why does discussion always seem to center around South and Central America?

I mean, how do we know that it wasn't just a really popular theme? For example, we have castles now based on Harry Potter books but we don't actually believe in that. Same can go with children stories. I don't know if I should post this here or if another subreddit would be more fitting. Thanks for your help

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If he did at all? American Evangelical Christians seem to have a very particular dogma unrelated to the older, more European-originated branches of Christianity. While I am sure there exists a broad pantheon of influence, can anyone point to specific influences of Kierkegaard that may still be evident in today's belief system?

I'm a geneticist who works in clinical reproductive genetics. A reciprocal translocation involves 2 chromosomes swapping sections with each other. This makes it harder to produce genetically normal eggs or sperm, resulting in multiple losses up to congenitally abnormal stillbirths/early deaths (not so much nowadays obviously). Is it possible this is why Henry VIII had so much trouble with getting living children off of multiple women? Is there something I'm missing coming at it from a genetics nerd/BBC costume drama watching perspective?

I know we do not have much clue about the Trojan language, but I am wondering if there are essential parts of Latin that do not relate to Etruscan or other local languages (or Greek).

Did France currency lose all its value because there was no central government to support the currency?

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In Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days, chapter 1, is the following curious sentence. Boldfacing is mine.

If [Phileas Fogg] dined or breakfasted, the kitchens, the buttery, the pantry, the dairy of the Club furnished his table from their succulent stores; the waiters of the Club, grave personages in dress-coats and shoes with swanskin soles, served him in a special porcelain and on fine Saxon linen; the Club decanters of a lost mould contained his sherry, his port, and his claret, flavoured with orange flower water and cinnamon; and finally the ice of the Club, brought at great expense from the American lakes, kept his drinks in a satisfactory condition of freshness.

Would a restaurant in London (which is where Fogg lived) really get their ice from "American lakes"? Surely there were lakes in England, and many more in the colder parts of the Continent, from which one could get ice that was just as good, and a lot cheaper. Shipping it over from America seems ridiculous.

As for the dating, the book was published in 1873. The story is said to take place in October-December 1872.

Considering how highly associated Christianity is with Western civilization, what did the Nazis think of Christianity and its Jewish roots? Would Christianity's position as an important item of Western culture and civilization which was obviously highly admired by the Nazis undermine the Nazi position of white supremacy? How then, did Nazis explain the position of Christianity as the center of much of European history? Did the Nazis non-officially disregard Christianity and Judaism because of this? Or was it result of other factors?