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You know Red in (movie) The Shawshank Redemption. How plausible is it a black lifer could get a parole hearing in 1947?	0	AskHistorians
Suppose you're a US servicemen/official in 1974 with Vietnamese spouse and child. so far as you'd know at that point, how confident can you be that they'd go home with you if the country was to be quickly evacuated of US citizens?	0	AskHistorians
In 1938 what proportion of the food and manufactured goods in Germany, came from sources within the country?	0	AskHistorians
suppose you're the most senior Navy engineer on an American battle ship, at the start of 1945. how much formal training (as opposed to stuff learned through experience) are you likely to have? what's the bare minimum of formal training you could have & still end up with the post?	0	AskHistorians
There's a sub-plot running through the third and fourth series BoardWalk Empire where Eli's eldest son is lying to him about the fact he took up smoking well Eli was in jail. Is it realistic that a father in 1923 would care if his teen son smoked or not? If "yes" why?	0	AskHistorians
I once read a scifi novel where a 40s Chinese peasant women is abducted by aliens. At onepoint shes amazed by the fact that the aliens can make 3D color films, instead of flat monochrome films like she’s use to. How normal/unusual would it be for someone, of that time & background, to see a movie?	0	AskHistorians
Somebody (a high school teacher I think, but I don't remember) once told me that all the civil rights & counter culture movements in the west in 20th Century, ultimately only happened because widespread education and communication made it easier for people to organise. Is that all true?	0	AskHistorians
suppose you asked an elderly Japanese person living towards the end of Edo (say someone who was 78 in 1828) how things in the country had changed since they were a child? what do you think they'd say?	0	AskHistorians
is it probable the physical characteristics and behavior of the common ancestor between man and chimp, strongly resembled the of modern chimps?	0	askscience
suppose you visited a Kyoto in 1515 (during the Sengoku period) and then again in 1717 (during the Edo period). what differences would you see?	0	AskHistorians

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