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Suppose it's 1977 and you are the brother of someone who use to work in the Soviet embassy to the US and has just defected. (Assuming you still live in the USSR) what (if anything?) would happen to you?

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when were the first towns and cities built in the southern part of the Arabian peninsula?

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would a poor harvest have any effect on the day to day lives of anyone other than the poor in the ancient near east?

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when did european peasants start using cast iron Wood-burning stove instead of just cooking things directly over an open fire?

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In the 1960s was the USSR more or less tolerant of Christianity than China was of buddhism?

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were the Shoshone people hunter gatherers or farmers mostly, before they made contact with Europeans?

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How come the Chinese rebelled and overthrew their emperor, where as even after the hell of world war 2 the Japanese were still so devoted to there's that the Americans wheedled out of charging him with war crimes to keep them sweet?

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my grandfather was on one of the ships doing the Arctic Convoy when he was my age. He once told me that some of captains were so inexperienced that all they had before the war was like a yachting licence. that true? How can it be that made more sense than just promoting the jr officers or non coms?

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suppose you visited where Maryland now is 2000 years ago, do you think you'd find people speaking an Algonquian language (the language family of the natives who lived there when Europeans showed up)?

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what were the Maharajas before the Raj?

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Suppose it's 1977 and you are the brother of someone who use to work in the Soviet embassy to the US and has just defected. (Assuming you still live in the USSR) what (if anything?) would happen to you?	6
when were the first towns and cities built in the southern part of the Arabian peninsula?	6
would a poor harvest have any effect on the day to day lives of anyone other than the poor in the ancient near east?	6
when did european peasants start using cast iron Wood-burning stove instead of just cooking things directly over an open fire?	6
In the 1960s was the USSR more or less tolerant of Christianity than China was of buddhism?	6
were the Shoshone people hunter gatherers or farmers mostly, before they made contact with Europeans?	6
How come the Chinese rebelled and overthrew their emperor, where as even after the hell of world war 2 the Japanese were still so devoted to there's that the Americans wheedled out of charging him with war crimes to keep them sweet?	6
my grandfather was on one of the ships doing the Arctic Convoy when he was my age. He once told me that some of captains were so inexperienced that all they had before the war was like a yachting licence. that true? How can it be that made more sense than just promoting the jr officers or non coms?	6
suppose you visited where Maryland now is 2000 years ago, do you think you'd find people speaking an Algonquian language (the language family of the natives who lived there when Europeans showed up)?	6
what were the Maharajas before the Raj?	6