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1500 years ago what materials did the Mayans use the most to make hand tools and weapons?

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"We have no room, but you can give birth in the stables" is that an offer an Jewish innkeeper would ever plausible make? Would that be seen as appropriate and polite in reality?

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I once saw a docudrama where Winston Churchill (circa 1913) was depicted drinking in a pub. In the 1910s how normal was it for an aristocratic man to go in a pub? Either way is there are there any accounts Churchill ever doing it?

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what craftsmen and tradesmen would you find working in an Middle Kingdom of Egypt city?

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When & why did cloaks full out of fashion in the west?

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Suppose you asked a high up in the Aztec empire (circa 1460 to 1470) why their rulers had to be men, what you think he'd say?

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I'm on holiday (vacation) in southern Spain (about 70 KM from Alicante), it feels like there's nothing here but tourism oriented settlements. What was day to day life like here 200 years ago?

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During the US-Indian wars in the late 19th century (after the civil war and before 1900), was the US army at all advantages due the fact that they had canned rations and the natives fighters didn't (unless they did?)?

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In 1890 how much of food eaten in Britain, was produced abroad? What foods were commonly produced abroad at that time?

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were the chicago's beaches there when white people arrived in the area or did the city create them for the sake of tourism?

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1500 years ago what materials did the Mayans use the most to make hand tools and weapons?	6
"We have no room, but you can give birth in the stables" is that an offer an Jewish innkeeper would ever plausible make? Would that be seen as appropriate and polite in reality?	6
I once saw a docudrama where Winston Churchill (circa 1913) was depicted drinking in a pub. In the 1910s how normal was it for an aristocratic man to go in a pub? Either way is there are there any accounts Churchill ever doing it?	6
what craftsmen and tradesmen would you find working in an Middle Kingdom of Egypt city?	6
When & why did cloaks full out of fashion in the west?	6
Suppose you asked a high up in the Aztec empire (circa 1460 to 1470) why their rulers had to be men, what you think he'd say?	6
I'm on holiday (vacation) in southern Spain (about 70 KM from Alicante), it feels like there's nothing here but tourism oriented settlements. What was day to day life like here 200 years ago?	6
During the US-Indian wars in the late 19th century (after the civil war and before 1900), was the US army at all advantages due the fact that they had canned rations and the natives fighters didn't (unless they did?)?	6
In 1890 how much of food eaten in Britain, was produced abroad? What foods were commonly produced abroad at that time?	6
were the chicago's beaches there when white people arrived in the area or did the city create them for the sake of tourism?	6