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[Childhood and Infancy] Lower class children have historically offset the cost of raising them or even increased a family's resources from middle childhood through unskilled labor. But what about aristocratic children? How and when did they generally start contributing to their family's resources?	1
Quotes of Adlai Stevenson's "majority" exchange vary: Is it known if the story is true or apocryphal? If true, what was the public's response?	1
What's the scholarly value of attempts to replicate historic practices through experimentation, absent written records? (E.G., martial arts, construction, sailing, etc)	1
Quotes of Adlai Stevenson's "majority" exchange vary: Is it known if the story is true or apocryphal? If true, what was the public's response?	1
What were the social, economic, and political effects of the UK's Housing Act 1980? What were the political debates surrounding its enactment?	1
Lower class children have historically offset the cost of raising them or even increased a family's resources from middle childhood through unskilled labor. But what about aristocratic children? At what age did aristocrats generally start contributing to their family's resources?	1
How were American slaves freed after the Civil War? How widely had news of the Emancipation Proclamation spread during the war and how was freedom for former slave protected, immediately following the war?	1
How did lenders come to trust LLCs?	1
What is the origin of the "9-11 Dash Line?" Has the PRC's stated policy always been so nebulous? Where does the RoC fit in? How was territory in the South China Sea split (if at all) prior to European influence?	1
Since the passage of the Controlled Substances Act, has their been any significant effort to schedule alcohol and/or nicotine as schedule 1?	1

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