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why did/do former grammar school students tend to speak with received English pronunciation (or something close to it) when they often came from normal working class backgrounds?

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why were the portraits on classical coins so much cruder than the ones from the last few hundred years?

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Why is the United States so much more heavily populated than the other European colony countries?

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you know all those laws the British past in the second half of the 19th century concerning universal education and child labor. was their much of a delay between those laws being passed and people actually widely obeying them?

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when Romans deified dead emperors did they view it as just a ceremonial thing or did they take it as literally the emperor becoming a God?

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How far back does the stereotype that Celtic people are ginger or blond, go?

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until I heard it said out loud I always pronounced "Tacitus" with a hard "C". How exactly do we know the correct way to say classical names?

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The HBO movie Conspiracy Wilhelm Stuckart (Colin Firth) complains about how vague anti-Jewish laws could lead to people suing the state over wrongful deportations. Were there really people in the German government who saw that as a realistic concern?

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Why did the ancient Britons start building hill forts around 1100BC?

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when the professional Roman Army was being formulated in the early first century BC, who would have filled the roles of the various ranks of centenarian (IE high ranking non-coms) if no one (literally no one ever before) had pre-existing experience of being a non-com in a professional army?

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why did/do former grammar school students tend to speak with received English pronunciation (or something close to it) when they often came from normal working class backgrounds?	4
why were the portraits on classical coins so much cruder than the ones from the last few hundred years?	4
Why is the United States so much more heavily populated than the other European colony countries?	4
you know all those laws the British past in the second half of the 19th century concerning universal education and child labor. was their much of a delay between those laws being passed and people actually widely obeying them?	4
when Romans deified dead emperors did they view it as just a ceremonial thing or did they take it as literally the emperor becoming a God?	4
How far back does the stereotype that Celtic people are ginger or blond, go?	4
until I heard it said out loud I always pronounced "Tacitus" with a hard "C". How exactly do we know the correct way to say classical names?	4
The HBO movie Conspiracy Wilhelm Stuckart (Colin Firth) complains about how vague anti-Jewish laws could lead to people suing the state over wrongful deportations. Were there really people in the German government who saw that as a realistic concern?	4
Why did the ancient Britons start building hill forts around 1100BC?	4
when the professional Roman Army was being formulated in the early first century BC, who would have filled the roles of the various ranks of centenarian (IE high ranking non-coms) if no one (literally no one ever before) had pre-existing experience of being a non-com in a professional army?	4