/u/grapp's posts in /r/askhistorians
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There’s several scenes in Westworld where you see people eating in the saloon. Are the park designers being authentic in having it operate as a restaurant instead of just a bar?
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aside from in the context of a legal defence, did many/any of the guys who worked in concentration camps say they felt guilty about it at the time?
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suppose in 1769 you asked a samurai (or at least some educated Japanese person) what he believed would happen to them "after death?". What would they most likely say?
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suppose It's AD150 & I'm the captain of a ship taking grain from Carthage to Rome. what's my Method of navigation once I get out of site of land?
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In the early 1940s was superman well enough known yet that people who weren’t children or comicbook readers would have heard of him?
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When did people start commonly viewing playing for it's own sake, as something that was good for children rather than a waste of time?
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I saw an interview with George RR Martin where he claimed that for most of the history of English story telling critics didn’t make distinction between "literature" & "popular fiction", and "speculative fiction" & "realistic fiction" in the sense that we think of those distinctions today. true?
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