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because I've been regular internet user from about age 11 something I always wonder when I read The State of the Art is how would a writer in 1989 go about researching what major would events would have have been in the news 12 years before?	1	TheCulture
I've been told that the reason Christianity grew so large so fast because it has more to offer the poor than roman paganism did. Does that mean Islam had a harder time getting converts since they were dealing with people who already believed fanatical monotheistic religion, Zoroastrianism?	1	AskHistorians
before Darwin did scientists already know that mythological animals that share traits from different unrelated families, bird winged horses for example, can't really exist?	1	AskHistorians
There’s a scene in Ancient Rome:The Rise and Fall of an Empire where Nasica summons slaves to hold up blankets so he can urinate into a pot, also brought by slaves, without anyone seeing his genitals. Did rich Romans really just urinate wherever they were standing instead of going to a toilet?	1	AskHistorians
the City and The Stars starts with the main characters entertaining themselves with a machine that puts you into an artificial shared dream world. the book came out in 1956, are there many/any instances of VR entertainment technology in science fiction from before then?	1	AskHistorians
suppose I stayed in a Minoan greek city for the entirety of 2017BC, do you think it's likely there would be some kind of celebration or festival held around the winter solstice?	1	AskHistorians
150to300 yrs ago creationists stopped claiming Usshers flood date because of massive evidence of identical civilizations existed before & after 1491BC.Answers in Genesis say the flood happened in 2348BC, do we know more about the world in 2348BC, than scholars in 1867 knew about the world in 1491BC?	1	AskHistorians
how many people lived in the city Rome in 145BC(IE when they'd finally done away with Carthage for good, and the republic's internal social/economic problems were growing in significance)?	1	AskHistorians
in 1996, when I was 3 & my bro was 8, my family lived in a terrace house in a estate that was built in the 1880s for the people who once worked in a brewery in my (UK)hometown. Imagine two children(age 3 & 8) living in one of those houses in 1896, what would their weekly diet most likely consist of?	1	AskHistorians
I think governments should try make sure every homeless person is offered a studio apartment, money for food, a phone with internet, and free education & healthcare.Suppose I were a TV director in 1958 LA & I said that(minus the phone bit)in an interview, would it get me blacklisted as a communist?	1	AskHistorians

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