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In Boardwalk Empire both Nucky & Jimmy never use corporal punishment on their respective kids. Would that have been really unusual for American fathers in 1920?	22
would ptolemaic pharaohs have dressed like greek kings or egyptian pharaohs, to meet foreign dignitaries?	22
suppose You're a 13/14 year old girl in a (tradesmen/working class) Muslim family in Edirne (the capital of the Ottoman empire) in 1397. Suppose you sleep with a boy and get pregnant. What will happen to you when your family and/or community find/figure out?	22
Did Arian Christians believe in the concept of sanctuary? If "yes" would (western) Roman Emperor Majorian have respected it during his 450/60s campaigns, & so not kill/enslave people hiding in churches?	22
who was the first Japanese person to learn English well enough to communicate with American or English traders directly?	22
how long after the bronze age collapse was it before trade started to pick up across the Mediterranean again?	22
why do we call the 1838 mormon war a "war" when it was so small scale and did not involve another nation besides the US?	22
there's a bit in an episode of Boardwalk Empire where a guy tells an anecdote that starts with him watching a Mickey Mouse cartoon at the movies. in 1931 was Mickey Mouse popular enough yet that you could just expect anyone you spoke to know who he was?	22
would a classical greek (circa 250BC) have any clear idea in their mind of how long ago the major events in realm of the gods, Cronus eating his kids and so forth, were supposed to have taken place?	22
I just now read on Wikipedia that in the late middle ages (1400 through 1550) most English plays would have dealt with bible stories. Would the people watching those plays have been allowed to shout and jeer like the audiences at Shakespeare's later, secular, plays supposedly did?	22

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