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you know in 1967 when the american supreme court forces all States to allow interracial marriage. when that happened are there many/any records of older couples (IE ones who'd been engaging in a relationship for years regardless of their inability to legally wed) coming forward to get married?
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How did Chefs go from being viewed as common servants (or even slaves if you go back long enough) to being viewed as a kind of artist?
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how did farmland ownership work in Ancient Egypt (middle kingdom circa 1800BC ....if it matters)? did it belong to the people who actually worked it, or was everybody the aristocracy and/or king's tenant?
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I once read a historical novel set in 1942 Japan. One of the characters was an army officer, he carried a Katana and knew hand to hand martial arts besides. Are either of those things plausible or realistic?
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in the 14th century were wealthy byzantines still using slaves as domestic servants like their Roman forebears did a 1000 years before?
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In stories about the Depression there's always the implication that guys wondering the US looking for work could be from any background pre1929. In the 1930s in the USA if you had a college degree how likely were you to end up long term unemployed? & how does that compare to the general population?
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Suppose you're a 25 year old Native American man, in (what it now) New York State in 1315. How much of your time is taken up with hunting? How far did North American Indians travel from their home settlements, when hurting? how long did they stay away?
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what differences (if any) are there between the version of Shinto beliefs dominant in Japan when Commodore Perry arrived in 1852, and the version that would have been dominant in japan 750 years earlier in 1102?
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