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suppose You're a jew in Edirne (the capital of the Ottoman empire) in 1397. Suppose you do some obscene graffiti, involving a caricature of Muhammad, in a busy part of the city. What (if anything) will happen to you if the community figures out the graffiti was your handiwork?

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I'm 24 and my dad in a police officer. Suppose that were the case & I lived in 1928 Pittsburgh. Would that make it easier or harder for me to get (safe) Vodka, Rum or Gin?

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did the people of the Babylonian Empire (the first one) have a fishing industry in the the gulf of Aqaba?

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why did bows and arrows full out of common war use, long before really accurate guns came in?

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is it true a number of kingdoms in the south were already romanised, hundreds of years before they actually invaded Britain?

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would 203BC have been the first time Hannibal had ever actually been to Carthage in his adult life?

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in 1989 why didn't the USSR try to keep East Germany under communist control by force?

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suppose you are a young US army lieutenant stationed in Japan in 1947. what is your daily life likely? how much interaction do you have normal japanese people? how socially acceptable is for to go out with Japanese women?

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in the USA 45 years ago if a lesbian/bisexual had a baby (somehow) and put in her will that she wanted custody to go to her female partner in the event of her death, is it likely or unlikely that the authorities would have allowed that wish to be honoured?

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did the goths and/or the vandals believe in (what we would think of as) the norse pantheon before they respectively converted to forms of christianity?

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suppose You're a jew in Edirne (the capital of the Ottoman empire) in 1397. Suppose you do some obscene graffiti, involving a caricature of Muhammad, in a busy part of the city. What (if anything) will happen to you if the community figures out the graffiti was your handiwork?	1
I'm 24 and my dad in a police officer. Suppose that were the case & I lived in 1928 Pittsburgh. Would that make it easier or harder for me to get (safe) Vodka, Rum or Gin?	1
did the people of the Babylonian Empire (the first one) have a fishing industry in the the gulf of Aqaba?	1
why did bows and arrows full out of common war use, long before really accurate guns came in?	1
is it true a number of kingdoms in the south were already romanised, hundreds of years before they actually invaded Britain?	1
would 203BC have been the first time Hannibal had ever actually been to Carthage in his adult life?	1
in 1989 why didn't the USSR try to keep East Germany under communist control by force?	1
suppose you are a young US army lieutenant stationed in Japan in 1947. what is your daily life likely? how much interaction do you have normal japanese people? how socially acceptable is for to go out with Japanese women?	1
in the USA 45 years ago if a lesbian/bisexual had a baby (somehow) and put in her will that she wanted custody to go to her female partner in the event of her death, is it likely or unlikely that the authorities would have allowed that wish to be honoured?	1
did the goths and/or the vandals believe in (what we would think of as) the norse pantheon before they respectively converted to forms of christianity?	1