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I'm an average person in the middle ages in Europe. Could I have survived on a vegetarian diet? Vegan?
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In the 50s and 60s, there were a number of scifi novels set in the distant future of the early 2000s, many predicting technology we can only dream of today. Why were these predictions so far off? Were they unrealistic to begin with, was the chosen date arbitrary, or did something go off the rails?
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In a lot of fiction, there's the image of the bandit: roving brigands, one specific tough leader, who set up camps with tents and demand your money or your life. How common was this profession in the middle ages?
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The cause of World War I is often boiled down to "Germany", despite having very complex origins. Was this a popular perception in the interwar period, or did it only emerge post World War II?
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In 1948, Eisenhower met with Leslie Groves, director of the Manhattan Project, and presented him with a long list of complaints, ending Groves' career. Do we know what this list of complaints contained, and why Eisenhower didn't view Groves in a positive light, given the success of the project?
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How did something as innocuous as picket fencing become associated with prosperity and the American Dream?
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Would a traveling member of a given Native American nation be able to identify when he'd crossed the border into another nation, either because of signage, differences in culture, or because he had access to a map?
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In 1916, Jeannette Rankin ran for and was eventually elected to congress - the first woman to do so. Did the campaign garner any national attention at the time? Was there controversy surrounding or resistance to the monumental precedent that could be set if she were elected?
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We're often implored not to view those in the past as less intelligent than ourselves, but hear stories about bizarre medical remedies that you'd think would have fallen out of favor as soon as they never fixed the ailment they were intended to cure. How do historians reconcile these two ideas?
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