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	<title>Ask HISTORY — History Q&#38;A &#187; Ancient History</title>
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		<title>What are the bog bodies?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For centuries, archaeologists and other scholars have been trying to unravel the mystery behind the hundreds of bodies—the oldest dating back some 10,000 years—found buried in the wetlands of Northern Europe. Due to lack of oxygen and the anti-microbial properties of peat moss, many of the “bog bodies” found in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Germany, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where did poker originate?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The game we know as poker is believed to have ancient roots that go back nearly 1,000 years, crossing several continents and cultures. Some historians say poker&#8217;s origins can be traced to a domino-card game played by a 10th-century Chinese emperor; others claim it is a descendant of the Persian card game &#8220;As Nas,&#8221; which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did gladiators always fight to the death?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hollywood portrays Roman gladiatorial contests as brutal, unruly duels that ended when one of the combatants killed the other. But in reality, gladiators didn’t always fight to the death. These ancient Roman athletes were highly trained professionals who made their living fighting, not dying. And since gladiators were expensive to prepare and maintain, killing off [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did Nero really fiddle while Rome burned?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In July of 64 A.D., a great fire ravaged Rome for six days, destroying 70 percent of the city and leaving half its population homeless. According to a well-known expression, Rome&#8217;s emperor at the time, the decadent and unpopular Nero, “fiddled while Rome burned.” The expression has a double meaning: Not only did Nero play [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is the curse of King Tut real?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In early 1923, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his financier friend George Herbert, Lord Carnarvon, ceremoniously opened the long-obscured burial chamber of the boy pharaoh Tutankhamen in Egypt&#8217;s Valley of the Kings. Two months later, Carnarvon was dead, killed by blood poisoning from an infected mosquito bite on his cheek. Newspapers speculated that he was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did Caligula really make his horse a consul?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to the ancient historian Suetonius, the Roman emperor known as Caligula loved one of his horses, Incitatus, so much that he gave the steed a marble stall, an ivory manger, a jeweled collar and even a house. Another chronicler, Cassius Dio, later wrote that servants fed the animal oats mixed with gold flakes. Famous [...]]]></description>
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