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If asked in 1814 would a Japanese aristocrat have said the Chinese were more civilised (or less barbaric?) than the Dutch?	23
did the Anglo-Saxons rape the enemy's women in war?	23
was toy maker a real profession that was common in pre-industrial Europe or is it just an invention of fairy-tale fiction?	23
during the early classical age (IE before Rome conquered Greece) would many/any of the philosophical and scientific works written in Greece have been copied distributed to greek colonies across the Mediterranean?	23
The Sign of the Four (Holmes book) there's a bit where some Sikhs bring an Englishman into a plot to steal treasure, their logic for trusting him is that he's a Christian & Christians can be relied upon to keep their oaths where common Hindus can't. Why did Conan Doyle think Sikhs distrust Hindus?	23
at the time (the late 1940s) was it considered particularly daring/unusual for a self proclaimed socialist like Gorge Orwell to denounce the USSR so overtly (without abandoning socialism)?	23
In Japan in the late 19th century was their much of a significant generational gap between people who had and had not been past childhood when the Meiji Restoration started?	23
I was just listening to the NPR politics podcast in which they said presidents don't give a state of the union their first year in office. Did that apply to Ford, Lyndon B. Johnson or Calvin Coolidge (IE presidents that inherited the job mid term)?	23
200 years ago what negative stereotypes did the Japanese attach to the Dutch?	23
were pubs (public houses) common in Britain's 18th century American colonies like they were in England itself at the same time? if "yes" why aren't they around today?	23

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