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Friday Free-for-All | March 10, 2017 (self.AskHistorians)

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AMAIAMA Classics lecturer and Roman expert who spent 10 years building a detailed 3D model of ancient Rome and turning it into a free online course. AMA about the eternal city! (self.AskHistorians)

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What happened politically in the USA that led to the end of support for New Deal - type programs like the CCC and WPA to put the unemployed to work? (self.AskHistorians)

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I'm a woman with a family in the American Frontier. My husband dies. How do I continue to provide for my kids? (self.AskHistorians)

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What would happen to children with Down syndrome born in Medieval Europe and to their parents? (self.AskHistorians)

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What misconceptions Italian renaissance had about the antique world ? (self.AskHistorians)

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Before the Columbian exchange, what were the cuisines like in India, Sichuan, Malaysia and other places where chillies are now an integral ingredient? (self.AskHistorians)

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Which British monarch was the last one to have "real power?" (self.AskHistorians)

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In honor of Skull Island's opening - when did cartographers feel confident there were no large land masses yet to be discovered? (self.AskHistorians)

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How effective was the United States and the USN at disrupting the transatlantic slave trade? (self.AskHistorians)

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What Happened to Cairo, Illinois? (self.AskHistorians)

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Why do there seem to be so many Obelisks in America? (self.AskHistorians)

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How did things work in a soviet market? (self.AskHistorians)

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In the Bible, Babylon has a pretty bad reputation. Was this shared by other civilizations in the area? If so, was this reputation deserved? (self.AskHistorians)

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Did lower-class Londoners not name their daughters until the 1940s? (self.AskHistorians)

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Watching MASH and a question struck me: as an officer and a doctor, what kind of military training would a drafted MD get in the Korean War (any other war is fine)? (self.AskHistorians)

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MusicWhen did rock music begin using chord progressions and song structures that weren't I-IV-V? (self.AskHistorians)

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Why did the Ustaše choose a monarchical form of government rather than a republican one for the Independent State of Croatia? (self.AskHistorians)

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Was St. Patrick's Day started by Irish immigrants in America? (self.AskHistorians)

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In war, the Romans enslaved their enemies. Did they do the same in nominal peacetime? Were there feared Roman slave raiders in Germania and Dacia? (self.AskHistorians)

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Why did the abrahamic religions stop using the name of their god? (self.AskHistorians)

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Do we know how someone living in the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom would refer to his/her country? (self.AskHistorians)

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From 1924 to 1935, The Eiffel Tower hosted gigantic illuminated advertising signs for the company Citroën, on three of its sides. Has anyone attempted to occupy this advertising space since then? Were any legal boundaries put in, in order to stop anyone from using the site as a gigantic billboard? (self.AskHistorians)

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I'm a soldier in the Roman legion circa 100AD. I just got myself killed in battle. How would word get to my family? Was there any formal system in place to handle casualties? (self.AskHistorians)

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Since when is raising your hands considered an "I surrender" gesture? (self.AskHistorians)

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what was the puplic opinion on railwaymen in ww2 for not going to war? (self.AskHistorians)

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What could James Buchanan have done differently? (self.AskHistorians)

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