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World it have been particularly unusual for a young man to drop out of the Ivy League (yeah I know it didn't exist back then, but I mean the universities that now comprise it) to fight in World War One, if they weren't being drafted?

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in 1714 would the most common second language in Japan be Dutch, Chinese or something else?

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In AD 700 England was divided up into several Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. Did they all speak mutually intelligible languages?

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In a practical sense was there a limit to how much rulers in the ancient world, could indulge perversions without causing public disapproval?

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what (if anything) was theological justification used for the king/emperor's right to rule in the Chinese states that predated the contrivance of the Mandate of Heaven (particularly in the Shang state)?

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what did the medieval Christians think of the references to the Greek gods in Homer's work?

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in his autobiography David Mitchell (comedian) says his brother works for an investment firm in oxford, as their in house historian. why would an investment firm need a historian?

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Did people in Britain in the 1960s & early 1970s (before Margaret Thatcher became PM in 1975) believe that unions were too powerful?

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when did people in New England start thinking of themselves as Americas rather then English?

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A while back someone on this sub told me Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormon Church, had a reputation for making up fanciful stories when he was a child. I believe the comment was removed, but I still want to ask if it's true?

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World it have been particularly unusual for a young man to drop out of the Ivy League (yeah I know it didn't exist back then, but I mean the universities that now comprise it) to fight in World War One, if they weren't being drafted?	14
in 1714 would the most common second language in Japan be Dutch, Chinese or something else?	14
In AD 700 England was divided up into several Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. Did they all speak mutually intelligible languages?	14
In a practical sense was there a limit to how much rulers in the ancient world, could indulge perversions without causing public disapproval?	14
what (if anything) was theological justification used for the king/emperor's right to rule in the Chinese states that predated the contrivance of the Mandate of Heaven (particularly in the Shang state)?	14
what did the medieval Christians think of the references to the Greek gods in Homer's work?	14
in his autobiography David Mitchell (comedian) says his brother works for an investment firm in oxford, as their in house historian. why would an investment firm need a historian?	14
Did people in Britain in the 1960s & early 1970s (before Margaret Thatcher became PM in 1975) believe that unions were too powerful?	14
when did people in New England start thinking of themselves as Americas rather then English?	14
A while back someone on this sub told me Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormon Church, had a reputation for making up fanciful stories when he was a child. I believe the comment was removed, but I still want to ask if it's true?	14