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What was life as a diabetic like in Rome in 2nd Century AD?

Aretaeus of Cappadocia described life with diabetes as short, disgusting and painful. What would life as a 2nd Century AD person with diabetes have been like? Let's assume that the person is wealthy enough (i.e. prosperous merchant or landowner) to have a physician on staff to s…

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A Chinese village where people once earned under $100 a year in 2005 transformed its traditional Clothes Drying Festival into a tourism success, with villagers now earning from five income sources and 285 households sharing $900,000 in tou…

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How Ubiquitous Was the Carrying of Fire?

I ran across a factoid some years ago that ran something like: “Up until the modern era, most people were never more than 1000 feet from a fire their whole lives” Without getting too into the weeds on specifics like distance, do we think this is broadly true? Does anyone recogni…

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New Dad Turns Library Trips with Daughter into Weekly Meetup with Dozens of Local Fathers

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The Lord Jesus Christ is real!!!!!!!!!!!!

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, now and forever and to the ages of ages. Amen! ✝️🙏🕊❤️‍🔥 I want to share my testimony about the Almighty God the Father and His only begotten Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, Who appeared to me in a vision given by the…

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Why are Egyptian ruins so well preserved compared to Greco-Roman ones, despite being older?

Obviously a major exception being a Pantheon, but I went to Greece and Rome and the ruins were, well, ruins. The Athenian Acropolis was in really sorry shape, the Parthenon is barely being held together as just an exoskeleton of its former self (I know about the Venetians blowin…

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Is there any actual historical evidence anywhere of the Allies in WW2 letting allied civilians or servicemen die in order to protect the fact they had cracked enigma?

A trope that pops up in fiction occasionally is the notion that the allies let the Germans blow up certain Atlantic convoys/cities in ww2, lest the Third Reich get suspicious about how the their attacks were always being predicted. Off the top of my head, an episode of the TV sh…

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I picked up a homeless woman because i thought i was following God’s word, and my friends called me stupid.

Alright so this homeless woman who was very clearly drunk walked up to me at work and asked if anyone could take her to Starting Point (a local rehab center), it was clear that none of my coworkers were going to so long story short i drove her over there and called the police an…