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Suppose you're a typical Saxon Lord in AD999. How much of your time is taken up by leisure activities (drinking, hunting, eating, ect), and how much of your time is taken up with actually administrating and/or defending your lands?	37
A while back Someone on an alt-history forum told me there is a fringe theory about Odin having been a real person who lived some thousands of years ago. Is that a real theory? If "yes" how plausible is it?	37
Is there a particular, non Arbitrary, reason that 600 years ago the Aztecs and the Mayen didn't have the bow, but the people in New England (the people John Rolf and pilgrims met) did?	37
In 1974 what proportion of the USSR's population had actually read Marx?	37
in 1924 if you mentioned to someone (someone from the Anglo sphere) the words either “spaceship” or “space- alien” do you think it's likely (more than 50-50) that you would have had to explain the concept to them before going on?	36
did mayan cities (circa 1300) have public marketplaces like old world cities did/do? if "yes" would you expect to see being sold there?	36
Suppose I live in the Jamestown in 1664 and I want to get to Plymouth. Would it be safe & feasible for me to just get on a horse and ride there over land?	36
did people (people in the US and UK) 90 years ago generally have more confidence in thier political leaders than we generally do today?	36
What was the point of hiring a defence lawyer in classical Greece or Rome? What could a defence Lawyer do in a world before physical evidence?	36
Imagine a young German soldier on the Russian front in 1942, imagine a German soldier (of similar age & rank) working as a guard in an interment camp in Germany or one of pacified parts of Europe. How much and in what ways, do the two men’s living conditions likely differ?	36

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