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How did people historically make speeches to big crowds before there were microphones?

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During the Red Scare, were left wing Americans and Western Europeans actually sympathetic to communist countries like China and Russia?

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Many people nowadays choose not to have children. Have there been other time periods in history where many people chose not to have children, or didn’t want to have children?

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People often say that organized religion is a major cause of violence. Historically, is this true? How does religion compare to other major causes of violence?

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Throughout history, what has been considered the age of consent in Europe?

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In the 1900s and 2000s it’s become a cultural meme that men often don’t make women orgasm. Has this been a cultural meme at any other time in history? Like were medieval women having tons of orgasms or was it also a known problem at that time?

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How did people historically make speeches to big crowds before there were microphones?	538
During the Red Scare, were left wing Americans and Western Europeans actually sympathetic to communist countries like China and Russia?	1
Many people nowadays choose not to have children. Have there been other time periods in history where many people chose not to have children, or didn’t want to have children?	1
People often say that organized religion is a major cause of violence. Historically, is this true? How does religion compare to other major causes of violence?	1
Throughout history, what has been considered the age of consent in Europe?	1
In the 1900s and 2000s it’s become a cultural meme that men often don’t make women orgasm. Has this been a cultural meme at any other time in history? Like were medieval women having tons of orgasms or was it also a known problem at that time?	1