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What is the modern view on the "gentleman's agreement" between the presidency & the media that kept, for example, Wilson's stroke, Roosevelt's reliance on a wheelchair, and Kennedy's infidelity, under wraps?
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Do prey animals on the savanna (zebra, gazelle, wildebeest) actually face the kind of constant danger portrayed on wildlife shows?
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Are there any historical periods on which the book is essentially closed and we know all we are realistically ever going to know?
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I'm the 3rd son of the 3rd son of the 3rd son of an earl in 16th century England. Am I still a member of the gentry, or would I be a farmer or tradesmen living hand to mouth like any other commoner?
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The Battle of Hastings is said to have lasted from 9 am until dusk - 8 or 9 hours. Would this have been constant combat, straight through, or would the two sides have pulled back to regroup during the course of the battle?
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In the English/British/UK peerage, were there any tangible benefits in being elevated from an earl to a marquess, or a marquess to a duke, or was it just, for lack of a better term, a codified form of flattery?
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McCain just published an op-ed in a Russian newspaper - historically, how many non-presidential politicians would have had the name recognition to speak to a foreign audience w/ any credibility?
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Does a person who is born blind experience the brain/head as the center/origin of consciousness the way a normal person does?
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If I were an average (non-noble) Englishman or Frenchman born at the outset of, or during, the Hundred Years War, how likely was it that I would see combat during my lifetime?
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