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Is there a clear difference between rock layers from different periods? How do we tell? Is the barrier at roughly the same level everywhere in the world?
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During the era of Jim Crow, how much discrimination could a black person who lived outside the South expect to face? What about members of other minorities (Asian, Latino, Native American)?
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What was the first work of fiction that was generally understood to be completely imaginary (i.e. not just a fictionalized version of history or legend that people believed in?)
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Were there Jewish or Muslim pioneers? Did they form wagon trains of their own or keep their heads down and travel with whoever they could? How did they handle having a different sabbath/special dietary restrictions/(in the case of Muslims)having to stop to pray a few times a day while on the trail?
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History, as the saying goes, is written by the winners. So how did revisionist "lost cause" narratives of slavery and the Civil War ever gain as much traction as they did?
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