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Have there been any significant responses from historians to the historical claims in Julian Jaynes' "Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind?"

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Was there ever a significant Tsarist/restorationist movement in the USSR or immediate post-Soviet Russia? Was there significant nostalgia for the Tsar in the decades following the Revolution, as there is in some quarters now for the USSR?

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The new movie "First Cow" revolves around the supposed first cow in the Oregon territory, yet there are apparently a good few settlers there. How/when did settlers out west start bringing livestock with them?

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Would a merchant in colonial Boston have needed any kind of license to sell slaves, and how would he get into that business?

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How popular/enduring was Sabbateanism, actually?

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What contemporary accounts do we have from Judea in the first couple decades AD?

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Did pre-unification Italian and German immigrants to the US see themselves as inherently "German" or "Italian?" Did the same sort of unification of identity happen in these diaspora communities?

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I'm going to be sifting through letters and legal documents from mid-18th century Massachusetts for a research project; what should I know beforehand?

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Older people covering couches/furniture with plastic is both a media trope and a common real-life occurrence. Is there a historical origin for this particular practice?

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Mid-1900s Korea seems to have had its fair share of Christianity-based new religious movements and supposed incarnations of Jesus/God. What was the historical and cultural background for this?

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Have there been any significant responses from historians to the historical claims in Julian Jaynes' "Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind?"	4
Was there ever a significant Tsarist/restorationist movement in the USSR or immediate post-Soviet Russia? Was there significant nostalgia for the Tsar in the decades following the Revolution, as there is in some quarters now for the USSR?	4
The new movie "First Cow" revolves around the supposed first cow in the Oregon territory, yet there are apparently a good few settlers there. How/when did settlers out west start bringing livestock with them?	3
Would a merchant in colonial Boston have needed any kind of license to sell slaves, and how would he get into that business?	3
How popular/enduring was Sabbateanism, actually?	3
What contemporary accounts do we have from Judea in the first couple decades AD?	3
Did pre-unification Italian and German immigrants to the US see themselves as inherently "German" or "Italian?" Did the same sort of unification of identity happen in these diaspora communities?	3
I'm going to be sifting through letters and legal documents from mid-18th century Massachusetts for a research project; what should I know beforehand?	3
Older people covering couches/furniture with plastic is both a media trope and a common real-life occurrence. Is there a historical origin for this particular practice?	2
Mid-1900s Korea seems to have had its fair share of Christianity-based new religious movements and supposed incarnations of Jesus/God. What was the historical and cultural background for this?	2