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suppose you're a samurai class (married) woman in 1813, and you've just gone into labour. what does your family do? who (if anyone) is brought into assist with the birth?

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suppose I want to get 500 copies of some text printed on paper in britain in 1489. how hard would this be to achieve (in a legal and logistical sense)? and how much money would it cost me?

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when did the english aristocracy start speaking english among themselves instead of french?

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There's a bit in Nixon (Oliver stone movie) set in the mid 60s where Nixon is an a party and a girl asks him if he likes Elvis and he says "yes". by the mid 1960s would it have been politically ok for a republican politician to admit to liking rock-n-role?

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What's the earliest European source that makes reference to japan?

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why weren't the Miwok agricultural before they encountered europeans?

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how did the church of England pay for all the gothic revival church that were built over the 18th and 19th centuries?

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imagine a small rural rice farming settlement in Japan in 1827, imagine a similar settlement in 1127. what differences (if any) would there (likely) be?

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I am a Muslim man living in (what is now) Turkey, the Ottoman Empire in 1395. Assuming I typical describe what my pilgrimage to Mecca will be like?

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Why did they make it a rule that the U.S. Supreme Court won't settle an issue until there's a relevant case at hand? Why were they opposed to the notion of them settling an issue abstractly before it actually arose practically?

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suppose you're a samurai class (married) woman in 1813, and you've just gone into labour. what does your family do? who (if anyone) is brought into assist with the birth?	4
suppose I want to get 500 copies of some text printed on paper in britain in 1489. how hard would this be to achieve (in a legal and logistical sense)? and how much money would it cost me?	4
when did the english aristocracy start speaking english among themselves instead of french?	4
There's a bit in Nixon (Oliver stone movie) set in the mid 60s where Nixon is an a party and a girl asks him if he likes Elvis and he says "yes". by the mid 1960s would it have been politically ok for a republican politician to admit to liking rock-n-role?	4
What's the earliest European source that makes reference to japan?	4
why weren't the Miwok agricultural before they encountered europeans?	4
how did the church of England pay for all the gothic revival church that were built over the 18th and 19th centuries?	4
imagine a small rural rice farming settlement in Japan in 1827, imagine a similar settlement in 1127. what differences (if any) would there (likely) be?	4
I am a Muslim man living in (what is now) Turkey, the Ottoman Empire in 1395. Assuming I typical describe what my pilgrimage to Mecca will be like?	4
Why did they make it a rule that the U.S. Supreme Court won't settle an issue until there's a relevant case at hand? Why were they opposed to the notion of them settling an issue abstractly before it actually arose practically?	4