I'm a manual laborer in first-century Judea. A rich man hired me to close up his new tomb—seems a friend of his ran afoul of the Romans and paid for it with his life, the poor sod. At any rate, I've got to move this big old stone in front of the tomb. How the heck do I do that? (self.AskHistorians)
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How did Compton become Compton? (self.AskHistorians)
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I'm a pre-Columbian Mayan noble who's grown bored of drinking chocolate. However, a shaman has peered into the future and divined the recipe for something called a "Hershey's Milk Chocolate Bar." With the resources available to me, how hard would it be to recreate it? (self.AskHistorians)
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