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in 1996, when I was 3 & my bro was 8, my family lived in a terrace house in a estate that was built in the 1880s for the people who once worked in a brewery in my (UK)hometown. Imagine two children(age 3 & 8) living in one of those houses in 1896, what would their weekly diet most likely consist of?	1
I think governments should try make sure every homeless person is offered a studio apartment, money for food, a phone with internet, and free education & healthcare.Suppose I were a TV director in 1958 LA & I said that(minus the phone bit)in an interview, would it get me blacklisted as a communist?	1
Since the enlightenment coffee shops have been associated casual philosophizing(at least in Britain & N America). Is there a particular reason the middle class of the 18th century opted to congregate and discuss things well drinking non-alcoholic beverages(unlike wine drinking classical thinkers)?	1
from mid 297 to early 298 Egypt was in rebellion against Rome. would have caused food shortages in the capital, or would the grain coming in from Carthage have been enough to maintain the bread part of "bread and circuses"?	1
would the Khoisan people have been the only people living on the serengeti in 1000BC?	1
how would most normal Germans have viewed Jews in 1947?	1
when the Americans were considering arresting and executing Hirohito were they planning on making Japan abolish the monarchy all together or would they have let them put 11 year old Akihito on the throne?	1
do Egyptian hieroglyphics change much over time?	1
80 years ago what proportion of the Japanese population believed the Emperor was literally a divine being?	1
Suppose I'm a 25 year old man living in a workhouse in 1866. What's my life expectancy if I don't get out?	1

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