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In the middle of my home There's a statue of a WW1 solider, with a plaque listing the town's war dead. When memorials like that were erected around 1920, were they meant to seem tragic/melancholy (as we tend to view them) or triumphant?	1	AskHistorians
In Egypt circa 75BC (IE towards the end of the ptolemaic era) would the most common drink have been native made beer or Greek/Roman wine?	1	AskHistorians
Before World War 2 you found Jews in rural areas throughout Europe, in the British isles and the United States they're fairly focused only in urban areas like New York or London. Why was/is that the case?	1	AskHistorians
On their website the main C of E church in my home town say that their main building was designed by William Robinson of Greenwich. William Robinson died in 1712, the church was completed 1758, can any one explain this?	1	AskHistorians
back when before TV when cinema cartoon shorts were common, were the same shorts always put with the same movies (as is the case when they rarely get made today) or was the theater free to put any movie with any cartoon they wanted?	1	AskHistorians
did the republican era romans make any kind of organised attempt to find out the likely results of an election in advance of holding it (IE did they have an equivalent of polling) or did they just go by gossip & popular opinion until the votes were counted?	1	AskHistorians
Suppose two or more chiefs had a disagreement about what exactly had been decided at one of the haudenosaunee's (Iroquois league) past council meetings. How could/did they resolve that kind of thing without a written record?	1	AskHistorians
When the first labour Prime Minister (Ramsay MacDonald) came to power in 1924 were many/any people on the British left angry that the tradition of the PM meeting the monarch on a weekly basis continued unabated?	1	AskHistorians
In The Crown (Netflix show) when George VI needs his cancerous lung removed they do the Surgery in Buckingham Palace. Is that accurate? If "yes" why weren't they ( sufficiently) worried about infection?	1	AskHistorians
in the last episode of Rome when Pullo is telling Vorenus what has become his family he tells him his (sort of) step son has become an apprentice stonemason. Did Roman craftsmen have child apprentices? What was the appeal of taking on a free boy in place of buying a slave you keep indefinitely?	1	AskHistorians

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