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at the time was the space race seen to be particularly right or left wind thing for an American to be invested in?	192
Suppose you took a modern Chinese person and sent them back 1400 years. Would they find food to be as alien, as I would ancient Saxon cuisine?	191
My great grandfather did some job that involved army supplies during WWII, he had access to blank ration books and he use to steal them so his family could buy more stuff. in Britain How serious would that crime have been treated (in terms of sentencing & public reaction) at the time?	189
did the imperial Romans use opium?	189
I read a novel once where a WW2 era Japanese officer expresses pride at the fact his country went from a medieval feudal state to a major modern world power in the span of a human lifetime. 80 years ago did Japanese really believe that their country was "medieval" until less than a century before?	188
In 223BCE how different would the different versions of Greek spoken across the Eurasia, have been from each other? Were they all mutually intelligible?	188
Suppose you're an English duke living in circa 1116 and your pre-pubescent son suffers some sort of accident that renders him unable to cumulate normally or father children of his own. do I have any legal recourse to get him out of the way in favour another son who can carry on the line?	188
were prostitutes in Rome sex slaves owned by their brothel, independent works, or did it vary?	186
Imagine a small Chinese village in AD 700, just 30 KM away from Chang'an (the capital at the time). How could you tell this village from one in middle of nowhere? How did proximity to the capital effect a community?	186
You know how back in the WW2 U.S. pilots would sometimes paint racy (for the time) images on the side of their craft, such as half naked women and the like. Were there many/any conservatives in the military that complained about that and/or tried to put a stop to it?	185

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