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Would a typical Roman (circa 70BC if it maters) have believed a Parthian was more, less or about as civilised as a Celt from northern Europe?
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I once read a novel were a former 1940s Chinese peasant women complained about the fact that communist propaganda aimed at her kind, was usually just incomprehensible & uninteresting to them. Did the early Chinese communist party really have major public relations issues?
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Was being a medical doctor a respectable job for an upper middle class or even aristocratic man in late Victorian england?
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In Tim Burton's Ed Wood, Ed (the main character) goes into a bar and gets served despite being a transvestite. How plausible is that in 1959 America?
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In Bridge of Spies the US spy jet pilots are told they're expected to suicide if capture by the Russians seems inevitable. Is that accurate? If "yes" was it then seen as a legal thing to order men to do?
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excluding Russia why didn’t any east Asian powers try to claim land in the new world in the 16th or 17th centuries?
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There's a scene in HBO Rome where Octavian/Augustus tells Pullo to torture a man for information, Pullo tells him he doesn't know how, the army has "specialists". Did the Roman army really have torture specialists? If "yes" how were such ....professionals trained?
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