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Suffragettes promised that when women could vote, they'd "clean up," politics. Was there any positive shift that would fall under this header?	0
Has the growing acceptance of alcohol & drug addiction as a disease one is afflicted with rather than a moral failing that should be shamed correlated with an increase in the prevalence of these addictions?	0
Archaeologists have found a surprising number of Roman copies of earlier Greek and Roman sculptures. At some point, did Roman sculptors innovate less and spend more time copying the great works of the past?	0
Did "Extra Virgin Olive Oil," really result from a creative solution to having one too many Vestal Virgins in Rome?	0
Should we believe Munsonius Rufus when he suggests that Roman tenant farmers of Nero's day were able to provide for their families and earn a surplus too?	0
Did many British troops, commanders, or members of parliament go on record opposing British suppression of the Revolutionary War? Were significant parts of the British government against the war?	0
The Western world switched from building primarily vernacular and classical buildings to modernist/brutalist buildings in the 20th century. Was this related to an ideological switch from traditional values to nihilism among certain members of society?	0
Did Jesus go to his death a failure in "conventional terms?"	0
I've heard it argued that the heavily-armored hoplite phalanx of the Greeks wasn't actually invented until well after the Persian wars. If this is the case, what explains the victory of inexperienced Greek militias over the numerically-superiors Persians at Marathon and Plataea?	0
How "big of a deal" were the society-shaking 19th century social movements to the average person going about their business in 1800s USA - prohibition, suffrage, abolition, etc. How do compare to the impact of 21st century movements?	0

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