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Suppose you were a black man living in a town somewhere south of the Mason-Dixon in 1925, and a women walked into the police station & claimed you attacked her. what are the odds you'd live to stand trial?
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In the 19th century why did foreign heads of state (like the emperor of Japan or the king of thailand for instance) start adopting European dress?
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There's scene in the The Pacific (HBO show about American military activities in The Pacific in WW2) where some America soldiers gun down an unarmed & wounded Japanese solider they find wondering around after a battle. Is there any reason to believe that sort of thing was at all common?
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how long after 1066 was it before most "English" landed gentry could truthfully claim to have grown up speaking English rather than French?
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How long after publication did it take Newton's laws of motion to become standard in all physics classes in the western world?
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"The Life givng light of the sun". Before modern Science confirmed it did people attribute the fact the world was liveable to the fact that the sun gave it Energy?
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if in 1818 I asked any given American medical doctor if there were any none superficial inherent differences between black people and white people, would he most likely say "yes" or "no"? if "yes" what would he most likely claim they were?
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