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The Star Trek episode “The Best of Both Worlds” aired around the time of the fall of the USSR and it seems kind of obvious that the enemy “The Borg” were modeled off of communism or similar threats of collectivism. Why was that a big talking point at that moment?
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Is the start of the androgynous male beauty standard (e.g. idols) in East Asian culture, directly attributable to Johnny Kitagawa? Or were androgynous men already considered handsome before the idol industry?
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How do historians date the writings of Josephus, Aristotle and Plato to the time period they lived in when the oldest surviving manuscripts appear several centuries after they lived ?
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Historically, when did the concept of "A human life has value and it's sacred" started to being considered more widely? Did philosophy and/or religion played a role or the personal experience?
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How did French attitudes and practices in contraception differ from English in the latter portion of the 19th Century and early 20th? NSFW
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Book recommendations on understanding the similarities and differences of cultural development between the different regions of Eurasia? (Europe, Western Asia, Eastern Asia).
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