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I once read a scifi novel where a 40s Chinese peasant women is abducted by aliens. At onepoint shes amazed by the fact that the aliens can make 3D color films, instead of flat monochrome films like she’s use to. How normal/unusual would it be for someone, of that time & background, to see a movie?

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did they know that radiation could cause health problems in 1946?

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was the number of people in the UK, living in poverty and/or unemployment higher in 1923 or 1934?

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In terms of quality of life would it be generally better to be an 12th century English peasant or an Edo period Japanese peasant?

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would the most northerly part of the north american continent have been inhabited by anyone in 2000BC?

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suppose you asked an elderly Japanese person living towards the end of Edo (say someone who was 78 in 1828) how things in the country had changed since they were a child? what do you think they'd say?

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there's an alternate history novel where everybody in Victorian Britain has to be evacuated to India after the dust from an asteroid causes crops to fail in the temperate zones. Would scientists in the 1870s have been able to understood what was going during an Impact winter?

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why didn't the natives react badly until Columbus initiated hostility?

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was the roman republic more or less internally politically stable, in 238BC or 77BC

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who first figured out what fire is in a scientific sense?

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I once read a scifi novel where a 40s Chinese peasant women is abducted by aliens. At onepoint shes amazed by the fact that the aliens can make 3D color films, instead of flat monochrome films like she’s use to. How normal/unusual would it be for someone, of that time & background, to see a movie?	0
did they know that radiation could cause health problems in 1946?	0
was the number of people in the UK, living in poverty and/or unemployment higher in 1923 or 1934?	0
In terms of quality of life would it be generally better to be an 12th century English peasant or an Edo period Japanese peasant?	0
would the most northerly part of the north american continent have been inhabited by anyone in 2000BC?	0
suppose you asked an elderly Japanese person living towards the end of Edo (say someone who was 78 in 1828) how things in the country had changed since they were a child? what do you think they'd say?	0
there's an alternate history novel where everybody in Victorian Britain has to be evacuated to India after the dust from an asteroid causes crops to fail in the temperate zones. Would scientists in the 1870s have been able to understood what was going during an Impact winter?	0
why didn't the natives react badly until Columbus initiated hostility?	0
was the roman republic more or less internally politically stable, in 238BC or 77BC	0
who first figured out what fire is in a scientific sense?	0