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in The Americans its part of Philip/Mikhail's backstory that as a child he bludgeoned a bully to death well living in Tobolsk around 1950. Who's job would it have been to investigate murders in the USSR at that time? would they have actually put much/any effort into the investigation?
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you know the Mississippi steam ships Mark Twain romanticizes. Would slave labor have been used in the yards they built in?
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Are there many/any actual documented cases of slaves getting lashed because they refused to respond to their master assigned new names?
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suppose you are a samurai class boy born in Japan in 1818. what does your formal education consist of? how much (if any) martial-arts training does it actually involve?
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can you give me a breakdown of what a family in all three conventional English classes (working, middle, aristocratic) would have eaten at what they would have considered an important feast day, in around 1701?
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I once read an alt-history where a man in 1942 is shown an alien computer. He reflects inwardly that he'd always thought of computers as giant building fillings things from pulp stories. is this anachronistic? if "no" I don't understand how computers could appear in SF stories from before WW2?
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