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In terms of quality of life would it be generally better to be an 12th century English peasant or an Edo period Japanese peasant?
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there's an alternate history novel where everybody in Victorian Britain has to be evacuated to India after the dust from an asteroid causes crops to fail in the temperate zones. Would scientists in the 1870s have been able to understood what was going during an Impact winter?
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did the people who run the British radio, TV and film industries in the first four quarters of the 20th century, ever actively prevent directors from casting actors who couldn't/wouldn't speak with RP?
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who is the earliest person we know of who predicted that you could build a single machine capable of doing (almost) any mathematical task a person could think to give it (IE a computer)?
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I know people in the late middle ages admired the original Caesar and some of the later ones. did the acknowledge that a lot of them were tyrannical and/or incompetent?
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if you had to give an estimate: how many independent kingdoms were there in the non roman parts of Europe circa 70BC?
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