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in Chernobyl (HBO series) the nuclear plant has no computer stations in the control room, just very bulky, very analogue looking, consoles. What Russian nuclear plants have really not had any computers in the mid/late 1980s?
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today doctors are seen as very respectable and they make a lot. what was their social standing & pay like in Rome (circa AD250) back when they were less capable of actually helping people?
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Who was the first person to think of using TV screens as all purpose information display devices (IE basically what a modern computer monitor does), instead of just as means of receiving and viewing entertainment?
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How did market places in large cities work before Money? suppose I want to buy bronze knife in 1116BC Memphis, what would the bronze Smith likely want as payment?
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Suppose I'm in a marketplace in Thebes (Egypt) in 999BC. What can I buy? And how am I expected to pay for it?
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In 1993 a majority of Russian voters voted that they supported economic and social policies that has been conducted by Boris Yeltsin's administration. I don't understand why they'd vote that way? I thought poverty levels went up drastically in the years right after the end of the USSR?
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was it practical to be a hunter by profession (as in someone who goes out and kills animals for the main bulk of their living, instead of for just portion of it or for pleasure) in ancient Egypt, Rome or classical Greece?
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Is that story about the slave whispering "remember you are man" in a roman general's ear, apocryphal?
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