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250 years ago what was the legal situation regarding slavery in any or all of China, Korea or Japan?

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when they first came out would it have been socially acceptable for adults to read Conan the Barbarian, the hobbit or any of Edgar Rice Burroughs's stuff?

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when did it first become possible for normal Japanese to buy Japanese translations of English (as in written in the English language originally, not exclusively from England) novels?

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When did humans reach the part of Brazil Rio is in?

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Would the native Americans who lived in missouri 3000 years ago have been pure hunter gatherers?

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Suppose you were a chef in any of the countries that fought in WW2 just as the war was starting. Were you any more likely than anyone else to be given a job related to food preparation if/when you get drafted?

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Neptune and Uranus were both discovered well Japan was going through its pre-Meiji restoration (partial) isolation. were there many/any native astronomers in Japan in 1850? If "yes" were they likely aware either planet existed?

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how much of the american populous accepted evolution by natural selection as fact in the 1920s?

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Were there meny/any people in Europe in AD650 outside the borders of the Byzantine empire, who were well read in classical philosophy?

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I once watched a BBC docudrama about santorini falling into the sea (unsurprisingly they called it "Atlantis"). there's a bit in it where a minoan trader is getting drunk at a feast and telling some story that involves egyptians. do we know if the Minoans & Egypt had trade with each other?

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250 years ago what was the legal situation regarding slavery in any or all of China, Korea or Japan?	6
when they first came out would it have been socially acceptable for adults to read Conan the Barbarian, the hobbit or any of Edgar Rice Burroughs's stuff?	6
when did it first become possible for normal Japanese to buy Japanese translations of English (as in written in the English language originally, not exclusively from England) novels?	6
When did humans reach the part of Brazil Rio is in?	6
Would the native Americans who lived in missouri 3000 years ago have been pure hunter gatherers?	6
Suppose you were a chef in any of the countries that fought in WW2 just as the war was starting. Were you any more likely than anyone else to be given a job related to food preparation if/when you get drafted?	6
Neptune and Uranus were both discovered well Japan was going through its pre-Meiji restoration (partial) isolation. were there many/any native astronomers in Japan in 1850? If "yes" were they likely aware either planet existed?	6
how much of the american populous accepted evolution by natural selection as fact in the 1920s?	6
Were there meny/any people in Europe in AD650 outside the borders of the Byzantine empire, who were well read in classical philosophy?	6
I once watched a BBC docudrama about santorini falling into the sea (unsurprisingly they called it "Atlantis"). there's a bit in it where a minoan trader is getting drunk at a feast and telling some story that involves egyptians. do we know if the Minoans & Egypt had trade with each other?	6