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Compared to other modern Western countries, the US television culture is much more conservative overall towards nudity, sexuality, and cursing. Why is this?

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During WW2, how much was the life of professionals who worked in large multinational corporations affected? Ie. business trips, working with shipping, international relations, etc. How was the war present in everyday business?

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Why are all or at least most pictures from the middle ages (from Europe) depicting humans always with the same "elegant" faces? What did people actually look like? And how an actual feast was like; with kings, warriors, maids and jokers? Or is that more fiction than reality?

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When and where did sending your own daughter against her will to be married become acceptable and why?

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Compared to other modern Western countries, the US television culture is much more conservative overall towards nudity, sexuality, and cursing. Why is this?	9
During WW2, how much was the life of professionals who worked in large multinational corporations affected? Ie. business trips, working with shipping, international relations, etc. How was the war present in everyday business?	9
Why are all or at least most pictures from the middle ages (from Europe) depicting humans always with the same "elegant" faces? What did people actually look like? And how an actual feast was like; with kings, warriors, maids and jokers? Or is that more fiction than reality?	5
When and where did sending your own daughter against her will to be married become acceptable and why?	1