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suppose it's around 1900 and I am the son of an Indian Maharaja sent to England to be educated at a public school and then Oxbridge. Socially Would I be allowed to do all the same things a young English aristocrat would (like joining a gentlemen's club or going to posh Balls etcetera)?	259
Why do historians call Alexander the Great Greek, when Macedonia and Greece are separate countries?	254
Suppose its about AD 266 and I live 125KM north of Hadrian's wall. what (if anything) do I know (or think I know) about life in the Roman empire?	250
Why did Japanese Warlords only ever try to turn the emperor into their puppet rather than (as happened in China multiple times) just overthrowing him & making them selves Emperor outright?	248
What sort of background (financially, ethnically and religiously) did the first generation of Mormons come from? Why did they they want to take Smith seriously?	247
In Princess Mononoke there's a bit where someone shows some women a letter from the Emperor and they just laugh. Is it realistic to depict Emporer of Japan as being that little respected (during the Muromachi period) by commoners?	237
I've been told that the original reason Judaism banned pork was because pigs in ancient near eastern cities used to eat trash, consequentially they weren't safe to eat. Is that true? Was sickness from eating bad meat more common in the Middle East before Islam & Judaism spread through the area?	237
Suppose you're an English Lord living around 1110 to 1120, how often would you actually eat one of those giant lavish multi-course feasts that people tend to dwell on when they talk about medieval dinning?	235
I’m in Kyoto in 1793 and I want to get intoxicated. assuming I have ample money, what drugs are available to me?	234
A teacher once told me that Henry VIII considered naming one of his bastard sons as heir. How true is that? Is it likely that the court/country would have accepted it if he had?	232

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