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I am a 20 year old factory worker in a slum in London in 1850 without a penny to my name. I dream of traveling to exotic British India to adventure and make my fortune. Is it possible for me to do so? And if so what might I find in way of employment when I get there?
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I'm a low class Ancient Greek adolescent/young adult man. There's this girl of similar class on the other side of the polis/village to me who's just my type, and I'd like to get conjugal with her. What romantic conventions are there that i should be thinking about and planning?
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When people poisoned wells in ancient times, did it mean the permanent loss of that well? What happened to poisoned wells after a war ended?
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Suppose I owned a small airplane and lived in a remote town in Alaska in 1986. Could I fly into the Soviet Union, land near a town, and return to Alaska without being noticed? What sort of security or military presence would I need to evade to make the trip, and how risky would it be?
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Due to the spread of COVID-19, some muezzins in Kuwait have changed a line in the Islamic call to prayer (Adhan) from "Hasten to prayer" to "pray in your homes". Are there other instances in history in which the Adhan temporarily changed because of some event?
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[META] Loaded questions that are not exactly soapboxing but have premises that cannot be verified by a historian. NSFW
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Wikipedia says forced and mostly public anilingus was used as a form of punishment, usually of prisoners, during the Thirty Years War. How did this work? Who was having their ass licked? How did this practice originate and how did it die out? Did it happen elsewhere at any time in history? NSFW
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It's the mid-1950s and I'm a reasonably well-informed, newspaper- and news magazine-reading American. How obvious is it that the Guatemala and Iran coups d'état happened with heavy input from United Fruit and Anglo-Iranian Oil, respectively?
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