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Was umployment higher (relative to the overal population size) & general living standards lower just befor the depression or just after World War Two?	8
How hard/easy was it to get opium in Japan 110 years ago (compared to china)?	8
Who was the first person to think of using TV screens as all purpose information display devices (IE basically what a modern computer monitor does), instead of just as means of receiving and viewing entertainment?	8
people tend to imagine that during the Edo period Japan's culture & technological level was utterly stagnate. If you were an old person (80 to 100) living in Japan in 1850, what would you consider to be the biggest changes since you were a child?	8
in Game of thrones the Dothraki eat horse meat when they run out of pillaged food. what meats would real horse riding nomads, such as the Huns or Mongols, have eaten regularly?	8
I once saw an interview with a Hiroshima survivor who said he believed japan were running out of rice and basically beaten by 1945, the Americans only dropped the bombs to test them. Was that a common view in japan after the war?	8
Imagine a Mercian or Northumbrian (or basically any Saxon kingdom) king in around AD700-800, imagine a prominent English Lord in around AD1200-1300. Which man do you think would have more servants (or slaves) to attend them in their daily life?	8
did the Taíno eat dogs?	8
in 2009 a Saxon treasure hoard was found about 30 KM from where in live in Staffordshire. is there consensus on why Saxon hoards were buried? why didn't people at the time just dig them back up as soon the sites were abandoned?	8
when were the first public baths built in the city of Rome?	8

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