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I remember reading that beer brewing was originally a female dominated profession in Ancient Egypt and Europe. Is this true and if so when did this change?

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When did music first become associated with social cultural movements?

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When did the thumbs up become a greeting gesture?

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During D-Day many platoons ended up on the wrong beach due to less than ideal conditions. How did ancient and Medieval navies effectively coordinate amphibious offensives dealing with premodern navigation, the constraints of coordinating a premodern military and likely spotty intel?

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How did people interpret dreams in the Renaissance\Early Modern period? When did popular understanding of dreams shift from being external (god/spirits/demons/etc) to being an internal product of our own minds?

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When thousands of captives were enslaved following a war, did the price of slaves decrease at all at home for the conquerors? Were these slaves mostly sold abroad?

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I'm watching Gentleman Jack and I had a question. Was it common for a 19th Century British woman to be as active an industrialist and businesswoman as Anne Lister?

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Ancient Greece produced famously beautiful art but the people who made it get left out of the limelight. What was it like being an ancient Greek artist (especially potters and sculptors)?

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Repost: When and why did peanut butter come to be seen as a child's food?

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How did the stereotype of the robotic, indoctrinated soldier come to be a trope in Western media?

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I remember reading that beer brewing was originally a female dominated profession in Ancient Egypt and Europe. Is this true and if so when did this change?	1
When did music first become associated with social cultural movements?	1
When did the thumbs up become a greeting gesture?	1
During D-Day many platoons ended up on the wrong beach due to less than ideal conditions. How did ancient and Medieval navies effectively coordinate amphibious offensives dealing with premodern navigation, the constraints of coordinating a premodern military and likely spotty intel?	1
How did people interpret dreams in the Renaissance\Early Modern period? When did popular understanding of dreams shift from being external (god/spirits/demons/etc) to being an internal product of our own minds?	1
When thousands of captives were enslaved following a war, did the price of slaves decrease at all at home for the conquerors? Were these slaves mostly sold abroad?	1
I'm watching Gentleman Jack and I had a question. Was it common for a 19th Century British woman to be as active an industrialist and businesswoman as Anne Lister?	1
Ancient Greece produced famously beautiful art but the people who made it get left out of the limelight. What was it like being an ancient Greek artist (especially potters and sculptors)?	1
Repost: When and why did peanut butter come to be seen as a child's food?	1
How did the stereotype of the robotic, indoctrinated soldier come to be a trope in Western media?	0