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In Moby Dick, the people of New Bedford, Massachusetts, are portrayed as perfectly used to seeing foreign headhunters and "tattooed, cannibal savages" about town. Is this based in fact?

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I'm not sure how to word this inoffensively, but: why were the Aboriginal Australians so much less technologically advanced than the European colonists?

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Why has Denmark historically been so much more populous than the rest of Scandinavia when it's so much smaller?

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Why didn't the Melanesians or Polynesians colonise Australia?

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Where (preferably online) can I get the 101 on the assassination of Julius Caesar and the circumstances preceding/succeeding it?

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In Moby Dick, the people of New Bedford, Massachusetts, are portrayed as perfectly used to seeing foreign headhunters and "tattooed, cannibal savages" about town. Is this based in fact?	137
I'm not sure how to word this inoffensively, but: why were the Aboriginal Australians so much less technologically advanced than the European colonists?	50
Why has Denmark historically been so much more populous than the rest of Scandinavia when it's so much smaller?	17
Why didn't the Melanesians or Polynesians colonise Australia?	5
Where (preferably online) can I get the 101 on the assassination of Julius Caesar and the circumstances preceding/succeeding it?	2