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| According to Amazon legends, men were forced to do all of the household tasks for the women warriors who governed and protected their cities. |
| If the Normans had not invaded England in the tenth century, they English language would have developed in a very different way. |
| Some astronomers contend that in ancient times, the Big Horn Medicine Wheel, an arrangement of stones in Wyoming, must have served as sighting points for observations of the sun. |
| Ancient civilizations such as those of the Phoenicians and the Mesopotamians used to trade goods rather than use money. |
| Harvard used to be a school for men, but now it is coeducational, serving both women and men. |
| The gladiators fought to the bitter end in ancient times. |
| Historians have called beer the national drink of ancient Egypt. The pharoahs appointed a "royal chief beer inspector" to protect its quality. |
| About 4000 years ago, it was the accepted practice in Babylonia that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer, and because their calender was lunar based, this period was called the "honey month" or what we know to day as the "Honey moon". |
| In Ancient Peru, when a woman found an 'ugly' potato, it was the custom for her to push it into the face of the nearest man. |
| In 1647 the English Parliament abolished Christmas. |
| Ancient drinkers warded off the devil by clinking their cups. |
| The Toltecs, Seventh-century native Mexicans, went into battle with wooden swords so as not to kill their enemies. |
| Because they had no proper rubbish disposal system, the streets of ancient Mesopotamia became literally knee-deep in rubbish. |
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