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Have older generations always felt behind the curve on technology, or is the modern incarnation of this just due to the exceptional speed of recent technological development?

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Has France historically really had a very large population advantage over other European countries? And if so, how did this come to be?

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Is it historically accurate to say that conservative political parties originated as (and also have always continued as?) a way to protect and promote the interests of the aristocracy from within a democratic system?

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Did medieval Romance Language speakers have a better understanding of Latin church services than others due to vestigial mutual intelligibility? If so, did this affect their relationship to the church/faith?

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Why are were there so many different Native American language families when the number of mother langauges/families which crossed the Bering Land Bridge would have been comparatively small?

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Have older generations always felt behind the curve on technology, or is the modern incarnation of this just due to the exceptional speed of recent technological development?	868
Has France historically really had a very large population advantage over other European countries? And if so, how did this come to be?	36
Is it historically accurate to say that conservative political parties originated as (and also have always continued as?) a way to protect and promote the interests of the aristocracy from within a democratic system?	7
Did medieval Romance Language speakers have a better understanding of Latin church services than others due to vestigial mutual intelligibility? If so, did this affect their relationship to the church/faith?	5
Why are were there so many different Native American language families when the number of mother langauges/families which crossed the Bering Land Bridge would have been comparatively small?	2