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Nowadays, people often wear clothing and styles from past decades. Was this common in the past? (Eg. In the 1920s, were there people wearing 19th century clothing?).
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It's not uncommon for dreamcatchers to be sold as souvenirs to tourists to prevent nightmares. They are marketed as Native American. Did any Native American groups actually use dreamcatchers or are they a misappropriation of NA culture? If legit, what did these objects mean for indigenous people?
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Alexandre Dumas' father Thomas-Alexandre was descended from a French noble and a slave of African descent. He also became the highest-ranking man of mixed African descent ever in a European army, during the French Revolutionary Wars. What do we know of attitudes/discrimination towards him in France?
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In the U.S., why are "ethnic" eateries for immigrants such as the Irish, Dutch, or Swedish underrepresented despite their significant share of the population, whereas the cuisines of other groups, such as Italians, Japanese, Cuban, Ethiopian, among others, are more prominent?
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Sad women comforting themselves with chocolate is a common stereotype. Before the arrival of chocolate in the old world, was there another food stereotypically desired by sad women? And when did the chocolate stereotype come from to begin with?
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I'm a tailor in Regency London and Sir Richard Dastardly, a rakish baronet, is ignoring my bills. How would I as a small business owner deal with this?
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What was so appealing about the bra that it completely replace the corset? From my understanding the corset had been around a long time, why was it done away with relatively quickly?
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