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when the founding fathers used the term "freedom of speech" did they mean people to take as meaning being able to say or publish whatever you want, regardless of common morality or common sense, as people tend to take it as meaning today?

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How much did the Berlin wall actually reduce the numbers of east Germaners defecting to the west? How do 1950s numbers compare to 1960s numbers?

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how common would literacy have been in Egypt in 1000BC?

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Were kimono's common/existent in Japan in AD650?

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Mercia (the saxon kingdom that existed where I now live) has a traditional foundation date of about circa 520. Do you think there saxons in the area before that?

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In the 1930s my great-uncle turned down going to university in favour of getting a job in a pottery bank (I'm from Stoke-on-Trent) because he thought Uni was "soft". Was that sort of attitude common among the English lower classes between the wars?

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When plays were preformed in classical Greece and Rome would the audience have shouted and jeered at the stage like they did at medieval and Renaissance plays?

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Can you think of many historical heads of state who used their power for grand gestures of revenge just for past petty personal slights?

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Was illiteracy particularly common among African Americans in the 1920s?

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if I wanted to find the direct ancestors of the native people of the Hawaiian islands in 2000BC, where would I have to go?

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when the founding fathers used the term "freedom of speech" did they mean people to take as meaning being able to say or publish whatever you want, regardless of common morality or common sense, as people tend to take it as meaning today?	5
How much did the Berlin wall actually reduce the numbers of east Germaners defecting to the west? How do 1950s numbers compare to 1960s numbers?	5
how common would literacy have been in Egypt in 1000BC?	5
Were kimono's common/existent in Japan in AD650?	5
Mercia (the saxon kingdom that existed where I now live) has a traditional foundation date of about circa 520. Do you think there saxons in the area before that?	5
In the 1930s my great-uncle turned down going to university in favour of getting a job in a pottery bank (I'm from Stoke-on-Trent) because he thought Uni was "soft". Was that sort of attitude common among the English lower classes between the wars?	5
When plays were preformed in classical Greece and Rome would the audience have shouted and jeered at the stage like they did at medieval and Renaissance plays?	5
Can you think of many historical heads of state who used their power for grand gestures of revenge just for past petty personal slights?	5
Was illiteracy particularly common among African Americans in the 1920s?	5
if I wanted to find the direct ancestors of the native people of the Hawaiian islands in 2000BC, where would I have to go?	5