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In HBO Rome there's a scene where Titus Pullo thanks a slave he has a crush on, and Lucius Vorenus tells him that thanking slaves is bad for discipline. Is that in keeping with how Romans really viewed slave management?
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According to a report by OECD, New Zealand had the third highest GDP per capita in 1950 after the US and Switzerland but had become one of the poorest amongst developed countries by 1980. What caused this relative decline?
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I’m a Soviet worker reading Pravda on the morning of October 14, 1964. The front page headline states that Nikita Khrushchev has resigned due to old age and health concerns. How hard would it be for me to learn the true nature of the General Secretary’s fall from power?
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Was the milkman practice common with all American suburb families or was it mostly a luxury for upper middle class that was just perpetrated a lot in media?
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How dangerous would it *actually* be for a well-meaning white person to wander into the frontiers of American before, or between, open hostilities like the French & Indian War, etc.? Is American pop culture accurate in this regard?
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