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How were WW1 veterans treated in Germany right after the war ended? Did they get much sympathy and/or respect, or did people give them a hard time for losing?	54
During the Cold War did whether the US president was Democratic or Republican have any bearing on how much they (and the US in general) were disliked in the USSR?	54
when my grandmother was a child the Germans dropped a bomb on her street. She told me that her home city, Stoke-on-Trent, wasn't a strategic target but the Germans would sometimes drop bombs anywhere just to get rid excess weight on the way home. Is that true?	54
Suppose I'm a youth (say about 13) in the USSR in 1977 and I ask my history teacher why so many people were purged in the 1930s. Would I be given a an answer or just told to drop the issue? If the former what would that answer be?	54
suppose you're in a roman encampment just at sunset the day before there set to engage in battle with another militarily powerful foe (let's say the Parthians). what would you expect the atmosphere to be like, what would expect to see people doing and saying?	53
why was the church so offended by the notion of Heliocentrism? It was pagan natural philosophers who came up with the generally accepted (generally accepted in the late middle ages I mean) notion of the geocentric model, not catholic theologians	53
Suppose you were a widowed Roman woman. Assuming you were discreet, would you be risking anything by sleeping with your male slaves?	53
in 1166 and/or 1266 did the English have any kind of celebration to mark the anniversary of William I and his dynasty taking over the country?	52
When learned European people looked back on Rome in the middle ages did they think the transition from republic to empire was a bad thing or a good thing?	52
I've read a lot of sci-fi stories that compare discovering alien worlds to the discovery of America. Did people in 1490s Europe attach that level of significance to it at the time?	52

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