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When personal house servants (in Eroupe) stop being slaves and become paid employees?

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what were the earliest people to have the controlling mother/mother in law stereotype applied to them?

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In my favourite SF book theres a bit about how one society's lucky to meet another society well they're more advanced, things could be different if the aliens’ planet had had less ice ages. In 1987 (book was written) was it accepted that the IceAges had been a bare to the emergence of civilisations?

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this thing has been sitting on the roof of a garage near my grandfather's dental lab since as long as I can remember. is it a real plane (or at least modeled on one)? if "yes" which one?

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were there Irishmen in the roman army?

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why are prehistoric human remains sometimes given proper names (IE Lucy, Ötzi, etc) and sometimes just called "place found" Man (IE Boxgrove Man, Cheddar Man, Lindow Man, etc)?

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when did scientists first propose that all vertebrates started out as fish?

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did the roman Empire have slave patrols like the pre-civil war southern US did?

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I've always found it kind of odd that every Christmas "pantos" are still put on in major theaters throughout Britain given how formal theater trips got in the 19th century. has there ever been a significant movement to get rid of them, or at least make them less raucous events?

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in the first half of the 19th century if their was some kind of internal conflict in japan what sort of gear (armor, weapons) would the men sent to deal with it, have? would it be much different from what soldiers and samurai were using during the Sengoku?

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When personal house servants (in Eroupe) stop being slaves and become paid employees?	1
what were the earliest people to have the controlling mother/mother in law stereotype applied to them?	1
In my favourite SF book theres a bit about how one society's lucky to meet another society well they're more advanced, things could be different if the aliens’ planet had had less ice ages. In 1987 (book was written) was it accepted that the IceAges had been a bare to the emergence of civilisations?	1
this thing has been sitting on the roof of a garage near my grandfather's dental lab since as long as I can remember. is it a real plane (or at least modeled on one)? if "yes" which one?	1
were there Irishmen in the roman army?	1
why are prehistoric human remains sometimes given proper names (IE Lucy, Ötzi, etc) and sometimes just called "place found" Man (IE Boxgrove Man, Cheddar Man, Lindow Man, etc)?	1
when did scientists first propose that all vertebrates started out as fish?	1
did the roman Empire have slave patrols like the pre-civil war southern US did?	1
I've always found it kind of odd that every Christmas "pantos" are still put on in major theaters throughout Britain given how formal theater trips got in the 19th century. has there ever been a significant movement to get rid of them, or at least make them less raucous events?	1
in the first half of the 19th century if their was some kind of internal conflict in japan what sort of gear (armor, weapons) would the men sent to deal with it, have? would it be much different from what soldiers and samurai were using during the Sengoku?	1