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In Saving Private Ryan, Wade, the medic, while bleeding out for wounds asks for "More morphine" after he was already given a morphine dose, and everybody became serious when he asked this. Was this second morphine dose considered fatal? Did WWII medics use morphine as euthanasia? NSFW
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Is there any reason why "cool" has had such a cultural sticking power while other slang terms have frequently come and gone?
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The American Midwest seems filled with beautiful structures, such as court houses and universities, made with marble and intricate craftmanship, in even small towns, all built 1910ish. If these were built today the material and labor would make costs so high. How did these small towns do it?
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How come in Renaissance style paintings (and even further back with Greco-Roman art) all the women who are nude are hairless? Was it an attempt to just show purity, or did higher class women shave their bodies?
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I am an average crewman on a pirate ship during the Golden Age of Piracy and I joined a crew as soon as I could in life. I have been lucky and I am finding that I am now no longer as young as I used to be. What does my life begin to look like as I go into middle age and eventually old age?
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I feel dumb for asking this... but how come using air to move a turbine to generate energy doesn't eliminate the energy from the system (i.e., less "wind")?
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