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Myths, Legends, and Folklore: How were the acts of adultery and rape by deception in Arthurian legend interpreted by 12th and 15th century audiences? NSFW
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How did VolksWagen become popular with hippies? The utilitarian design ethos of the peoples' car certainly suited the hippy movement... But this was just 20-25 years after the end of WWII, and hippidom was quite hostile to any whiff of fascism-adjacent anything.
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The pornography industry has been at the forefront of seemingly every media technology and distribution development since perhaps the late 19th century... butt just how far back does that go? The earliest chronophotography? The printing press? NSFW
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In the west we had a "theory of humors" before modern medicine; what was the pre-contact "medical theory" of the Mayans?
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My grandmother told me that she was treated coldly as a tourist during the Vietnam War, after locals found out she was American. Was international opposition to the Vietnam War really that great?
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Do we know the origin of the myth (and recurring AH question) that generations before such-and-such didn't love their children?
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[Meta] How will references to personal experience and anecdotes be moderated, as events 20+ years old increasingly include those AH users are connected to?
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How did the African participants in the Transatlantic Slave Trade enslave people and conduct slave trade? How did slavery and slave trade fit into their societies and economies? What happened to their societies and economies, as the Transatlantic Slave Trade wound down?
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