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Suppose it's 1166 you asked an English lord why it's morally right that a peasant born with the innate intelligence to do so much more should be condemned to a life of menial labour? What answer would the most likely get?
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Imagine a freshly commissioned US army officer coming out of west point in 1889, Imagine a freshly commissioned British army officer coming out of Sandhurst in 1889. Would the American officer be any less (or more) likely than the British officer to come from a (economically) privileged upbringing?
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how come so many people in the new world were wiped out by old world diseases but the reverse never happen to people in the old world?
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You know how in a lot of scifi they have machines that can create 3D projections of objects that can be viewed from any angle (as opposed to a 2D projection that only allows one perspective). How far back does that concept go?
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In most screen versions of Great Expectations Pip starts speaking with received pronoceation to pass as a gentleman. Is that at all period accurate for the 1820s?
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[Meta] have you thought about putting a little text in the Theme of the weak OP where you explain exactly what it's supposed to mean more clearly?
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I've read/heard descriptions of daily life in ancient Rome, that say fast food stands in cities typically served salad & "cold" meat. does that mean meat that was pre-cooked and allowed to go cold, or were the Romans just constantly exposing themselves to the bacteria & parasites in raw meat?
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