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In Little Women, men write their names in "ball books" or "dance cards" to claim dances with a particular woman. How common was this practice, and was there any sort of ettiquette about it?

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In T H White's The Sword in the Stone, about the life of a young King Arthur, he refers to "beasts of the foot" which are hawks, hounds and horses. Was this a classification used historically?

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Bernard Cornwell's Warlord Chronicles depicts Druids as dung-smeared wizards who hop on one leg before battles while screaming curses. Is there any historical evidence for this?

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At what point did people begin to feel moral qualms about the dropping of the atom bombs on Japan?

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In Little Women, men write their names in "ball books" or "dance cards" to claim dances with a particular woman. How common was this practice, and was there any sort of ettiquette about it?	141	AskHistorians
In T H White's The Sword in the Stone, about the life of a young King Arthur, he refers to "beasts of the foot" which are hawks, hounds and horses. Was this a classification used historically?	10	AskHistorians
Bernard Cornwell's Warlord Chronicles depicts Druids as dung-smeared wizards who hop on one leg before battles while screaming curses. Is there any historical evidence for this?	4	AskHistorians
At what point did people begin to feel moral qualms about the dropping of the atom bombs on Japan?	1	AskHistorians