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excluding Russia why didn’t any east Asian powers try to claim land in the new world in the 16th or 17th centuries?	27
I once read that a large number of North Korean defectors have untreated gynecological infections because of the lack of good health care, sex ed and generally poor conditions there. Did the same problem exist in the west (Europe, north America) 300 years ago back when we had the same lacks?	27
is it possible for Augustus to have living decedents?	27
In Guy Ritchie Holmes movie there's a bit where Holmes beats up a guy and then estimates how long it will take the man to recover physically and "psychologically". Would anyone in the 1890s have acknowledged there was any such thing as "psychological recovery time" after a traumatic experience?	27
Suppose it's 1116 in England and I ask a catholic priest "could Adam & Eve have sex in Eden?" What do you think he'd say?	27
Suppose you visited a Han-era Chinese city in circa 75 BC, suppose you visited a Song-era Chinese city in circa AD 1075. What differences would you expect to see?	27
who would have more personal freedom of movement, a free Zoroastrian woman in an AD303 Sasanian city, or a free Muslim woman in an AD808 Abbasid Caliphate city?	27
suppose you're a Muslim living in India or Sri lanka in AD1116, how likely are you to actually manage to make the Pilgrimage to Mecca at some point in your life?	27
I just watched The Founder & it made me wonder when it became the case that most fast food joints in the US were part of big chains rather than mom & pop setups?	27
How unusual would it have been for a member of the English aristocracy to marry someone from the working class in the late 19th century?	27

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