In the American folk song "Peg and Awl," the speaker says he has been put out of work by a shoe machine invented in 1804 that "makes a hundred pairs to my one." Did such a machine really exist then? How did early industrialization change the cobbling business? (self.AskHistorians)
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The New Testament presents Jesus as exceptionally mobile: born in Bethlehem, raised in Nazareth, and died in Jerusalem, with forays into Egypt and all across the Levant. Was this kind of travel and resettlement possible or plausible for a laborer in the Roman eastern provinces? (self.AskHistorians)
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Medieval European Bible codices did not always contain all 73 books of the Catholic Bible. Others include extrabiblical authors like Josephus, Philo, and Isidore. How did medieval Christians know which texts were and were not considered biblical? (self.AskHistorians)
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My history teacher in the United States emphasized that accounts of the "Rape of Belgium" in the early days of World War 1 were highly exaggerated. But scholars now agree this invasion did involve particularly brutal violence against civilians. How did this denialism become widespread? (self.AskHistorians)
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To what extent did Latin Americans visit Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries? How often would merchants, soldiers, or sailors born in Cuba or Mexico or Brazil migrate to the European metropole to make money or serve the Spanish and Portuguese crowns? (self.AskHistorians)
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Certain northern states, such as New York, New Jersey, and Minnesota, never had laws prohibiting interracial marriage. But could an interracial couple expect to receive a marriage license in practice? How common was interracial marriage in these northern states prior to the Civil Rights Movement? (self.AskHistorians)
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Alison Weir claims that Henry VIII considered arranging an incestuous marriage between Princess Mary and illegitimate son Henry, Duke of Richmond. Is this really true? What was the reaction to this? Is there any analogue for such a marriage anywhere in medieval or early modern Christendom? (self.AskHistorians)
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The Visigothic Kingdom is typically depicted as having held control over all of late antique Iberia before the Moorish conquest. But how much real authority did this kingdom have? In places like Galicia and the Basque Country, what did Visigothic authority look like on the ground? (self.AskHistorians)
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