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How do historians (and by extension historical cartographers) create maps of Indigenous polities in the Americas, and where are the most reliable databases of these maps?
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In the now infamous photo a woman and her children sit behind a "4 Children for Sale" sign. A news article from 2013 shows that the story appears to be genuine, insofar as the mother gave up her children. But how would this have been addressed legally in 1948?
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Was “guv’nor” ever actually used as a term of respect in Victorian England, or is that just a fanciful affectation?
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