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Suppose you went into an American Hotel (a normal low rent one) in 1937 and then again in 1944. How much (if at all) do you think war would have effected the quality of the food in the hotel restaurant between the two?
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in the 15th and 16th centuries European explores started encountering hunter gatherers in the Americas and in Africa. Before this were people in Europe aware that this was a way people could live? That socialites didn't have to be agricultural?
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during the middle ages what was the catholic church's response to the argument that conversions at sword point couldn't possible be sincere? did they ever even have to come up with one?
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In 1300 would most people in England have thought of the age they lived in as more "advanced" then the Saxon age or the period right after Romans left just before that?
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If I went into an english market town in AD 994. Can I buy freshwater fish from the venders there, or was fresh water fishing like hunting (IE you have to do it yourself)?
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before the 1950s (IE before the civil rights movement) were most African Americans aware exactly what part of Africa (IE west Africa) their ancestors had been taken from?
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why does Henry VII have crooked eyes in this painting? why didn't he ask them to correct it or do it again?
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I once read an SF story where aliens take a 40s Chinese woman & force her to "mate" with multiple men. She reflects that Chinese seem to care about pleasing her, more than westerners do. is it true 70 years ago Chinese culture put more importance on pleasing women sexually, than western culture did?
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