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Would Caesar's adoption of Octavian been unexpected?

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I'm a poor farmer in France during the revolution. I live far away from any cities or near the frontier. How is my life affected?

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How different did pre-modern people treat people with disabilities that acquired them due to injuries versus those who were born with them?

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How segregated were the women's branches of the US military during WWII?

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Looking at maps of Yugoslavia, its clear that large parts of Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia had ethnic majorities from one of the other nations. Did this cause problems before the 90's? Were there any attempts to change the internal borders?

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How much information about military weapons, vehicles, ships etc would an American civilian in WW2 have access to?

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Why didn't Harry Potter flee England after Voldemort's coup? What were the Wizards in those countries up to?

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I've heard several 1930s era newsreels refer to Nazi Ideology as "Hitlerism" This has me thinking, in what terms did the rest of the world think of Facist countries before 1945?

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In the novel Hawaii, the main character of the third chapter studied at Yale despite living close to Harvard, because Harvard was considered to be a wild and immoral place while Yale was seen as a stern and proper place. Was this a real divide?

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What kind of education do historians who specialize in the history of other fields, such as the history of chemistry or the history of music, get compared to others? Is history the major picked, or do they major in that field and then minor in history, or even just not getting history degrees?

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Would Caesar's adoption of Octavian been unexpected?	5
I'm a poor farmer in France during the revolution. I live far away from any cities or near the frontier. How is my life affected?	5
How different did pre-modern people treat people with disabilities that acquired them due to injuries versus those who were born with them?	5
How segregated were the women's branches of the US military during WWII?	5
Looking at maps of Yugoslavia, its clear that large parts of Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia had ethnic majorities from one of the other nations. Did this cause problems before the 90's? Were there any attempts to change the internal borders?	4
How much information about military weapons, vehicles, ships etc would an American civilian in WW2 have access to?	4
Why didn't Harry Potter flee England after Voldemort's coup? What were the Wizards in those countries up to?	4
I've heard several 1930s era newsreels refer to Nazi Ideology as "Hitlerism" This has me thinking, in what terms did the rest of the world think of Facist countries before 1945?	4
In the novel Hawaii, the main character of the third chapter studied at Yale despite living close to Harvard, because Harvard was considered to be a wild and immoral place while Yale was seen as a stern and proper place. Was this a real divide?	3
What kind of education do historians who specialize in the history of other fields, such as the history of chemistry or the history of music, get compared to others? Is history the major picked, or do they major in that field and then minor in history, or even just not getting history degrees?	3