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What was the purpose of guild systems and did the kinds of illicit guilds often seen in fantasy (assassin and thief guilds) ever actually exist?
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Movie characters from the 1930s-1950s seem to talk in a form of English obsolete now. Fast-talking, beautifully constructed, wise-cracking lines of dialogue we very much associate from that time. Was this vernacular confined to the fantasy of movies or did people really speak in this way back then?
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A four year term as President of the United States seems pretty short today, and that's with jet planes and highways and cell phones and various other technological innovations. How did Presidents get anything done in the days when a diplomatic sea voyage could take weeks?
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