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Did people make plans for what they'd do after the black plague was over, the way we do with COVID? Were they even aware that it was a thing that would eventually end?

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Did adolescent Holocaust survivors who missed their bar and bat mitzvahs get to have them after the war ended?

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I'm a craftsman in 240 BCE in rural China, and I've just received a work order for a Terracotta Army soldier. What happens now?

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What was the soldier screening process like for draftees in the American Civil War? If my goal was to avoid being drafted, could I claim anything to get out of it?

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Why has "quisling" become a term meaning collaborator or traitor when Quisling himself was only one of several other avowed fascist leaders of European governments during WW2? Why haven't any of those leaders become thought of in those specific collaborationist terms?

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How were buildings demolished safely prior to the discovery and use of explosives?

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Was abortion legal in colonial America?

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How did the pardon become one of the president's only six enumerated powers? Seems kind of random among things like commanding the armed forces and the veto.

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How common was it actually for scantily clad women to jump out of oversized cakes?

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When we find a piece of intact ancient pottery, would it typically have been a special piece that was treasured by the culture, or would it have been the average Joe's cheap flour pot that just happens to have survived?

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Did people make plans for what they'd do after the black plague was over, the way we do with COVID? Were they even aware that it was a thing that would eventually end?	8	AskHistorians
Did adolescent Holocaust survivors who missed their bar and bat mitzvahs get to have them after the war ended?	8	AskHistorians
I'm a craftsman in 240 BCE in rural China, and I've just received a work order for a Terracotta Army soldier. What happens now?	8	AskHistorians
What was the soldier screening process like for draftees in the American Civil War? If my goal was to avoid being drafted, could I claim anything to get out of it?	8	AskHistorians
Why has "quisling" become a term meaning collaborator or traitor when Quisling himself was only one of several other avowed fascist leaders of European governments during WW2? Why haven't any of those leaders become thought of in those specific collaborationist terms?	8	AskHistorians
How were buildings demolished safely prior to the discovery and use of explosives?	8	AskHistorians
Was abortion legal in colonial America?	7	AskHistorians
How did the pardon become one of the president's only six enumerated powers? Seems kind of random among things like commanding the armed forces and the veto.	7	AskHistorians
How common was it actually for scantily clad women to jump out of oversized cakes?	7	AskHistorians
When we find a piece of intact ancient pottery, would it typically have been a special piece that was treasured by the culture, or would it have been the average Joe's cheap flour pot that just happens to have survived?	7	AskHistorians