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when John Snow got them to remove the Broad Street pump handle (the water was infected with cholera, in 1854) did many/any people in that part of london complain about it?	96
I watched a TV documentary about the partial evacuation of Saigon in 1975. Suppose you're a Vietnamese soldier with your wife a children, being airlifted to safety from the US embassy. You have no possessions and no English, what’s likely to happen to you when you reach the US?	96
Before the Edo period, when combat really mattered for samurai, what happened to you if you were born to that class but had terrible coordinator or were even disabled?	95
I once read a novel where one of the main characters is a WW2 German tank commander. Repeatedly he reflects to himself that his Russian counterparts are too reluctant to improvise for fear of screwing it up and being sent to the Gulag. Did that problem really exist in the early soviet army?	95
There's a scene in Rome where Vorenus complains that his daughter is wearing too much jewellery "take some of that off. I'm a city magistrate, not the King of Asia". Who does he mean by "the King of Asia"?	94
in Schindler's List (film) Amon Goeth never actually rapes the maid he's infatuated with, as he's too disgusted by her Jewishness. In reality are there any/many accounts of concentration camp operators who had no such compunctions with regard to the women (or indeed men or children) in their power?	94
There's a scene in Rome where the two main characters are working as butchers, cutting pigs heads off and hanging the carcasses. If you were a a butcher in Rome did you have to salt down all your stock, or was the idea to sell everything to day you got from the farm?	93
When I was first diagnosed with autism my mother was told I'd probably end up institutionalised before I reached adulthood. Was that advice typical for the early 90s and/or later 80s?	92
Suppose I stop in an inn in London in 1268. Is there likely to be some variety in terms of the food available? Or is this going to be a "bread & stew, or nothing" type situation?	92
When Constantinople fell were any Romans left alive in the city? If so what did they do, convert to Islam or just leave?	92

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