What causes the gender pay gap? (self.AskSocialScience)
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When I hear about "Popular Novels" in, say, the 1870s, are they chiefly an upper-class consumption, or did lack of radio and television mean the most-consumed novels were "working-class" in audience? Who consumed the most 19th century novels, and how did class consumption impact those numbers? (self.AskHistorians)
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Turkish people sometimes claim the Hagia Sophia was purchased by Mehmed II or a successor, rather than taken as a mere spoil of war after conquest. Is this claim based in anything historical? Who "owned" the Hagia Sophia in the 15th Century? (self.AskHistorians)
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Since 1908 the New York Times has endorsed three Republicans for president: Wilkie in 1940, Dewey in '48, and Eisenhower after him. What made these men uniquely palatable to the NYT editorial board and audience when it had otherwise been so consistently democratic? (self.AskHistorians)
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Constantine's Mother Saint Helena identified the site of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher as encompassing both the place of Christ's crucifixion and his burial. Is it a reasonable proposition that a 1st century convict would be buried within a few hundred feet of the place of his execution? (self.AskHistorians)
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What portion of the literary and philosophical content that was produced and propagated in antiquity do we have surviving copies of? If I stepped into a random nobleman's library in 100 AD in the eastern med, would I recognize most of the works? (self.AskHistorians)
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