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I just watched Hidden Figures. Were most people involved in the civil rights movement supportive of (or at least indifferent to) the Space Race, or did they take the "why we wasting money on this instead of fixing the problems here?" attitude you sometimes get from socially conscious people today?	31
in the middle ages (lets say ...1150 and England if the exact time and place maters) if you were the child of a lord would having a deformity prevent you from getting married or being part of public life?	31
the conquest of the Canary Islands began in 1402, does that make it part of "age of discovery" or not?	31
Would Xia, Shang or Zhou era Chinese people have worn modern looking Kimono type garments, or is that an anachronism we get from later Chinese illustrators (like how medieval Europeans would draw classical era and biblical people in contemporary dress)?	31
did the East–West Schism cause many/any Catholics to leave the byzantine empire out of religiously motivated fear?	30
Suppose you're an English captain out at sea in 1693, and you accidentally drop your Spyglass into the North sea. How much will having a new one made cost? How would the what you'd get compare to that of a modern day pair of binoculars in terms of price and quality?	30
Were left leaning student beatnik types any less hostile towards the Soviet Union in 1960s than most "normal" Americans at the time?	30
did European medieval armies have medics/physicians to preform battlefield medicine?	30
did bakeries (as in shops that excursively sold bread and other beaked goods) exist in ancient Greece?	30
Imagine Beijing/Peking in 1717, imagine Kyoto in 1717. Asuming you weren't looking at a landmark you already know, could you easily tell them apart from architecture alone?	30

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