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There’s several scenes in Westworld where you see people eating in the saloon. Are the park designers being authentic in having it operate as a restaurant instead of just a bar?

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suppose It's AD150 & I'm the captain of a ship taking grain from Carthage to Rome. what's my Method of navigation once I get out of site of land?

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1000 years ago if a commoner tried to kill the king of England would they just be executed in the normal fashion or would they be tortured in someway first?

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Would the forced opening of Japan have been considered an important event in the U.S. in the 1850s?

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was having dark skin associated with being less civilized before the African slave trade?

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in medieval Britain (circa 1250) were men expected to go to the pub alone or was it a family thing?

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An SF writer I like, once said that both historical fiction and science fiction became popular in the 19th century because, thanks to the speed of technological change, it was the first time people had a strong sense of the past, present and future being different. Would you agree with that notion?

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I read a sci fi story once where some 17th century English sailors encounter aliens and teach them Latin so they can communicate with them, but still speak to each other privately. How common was the ability to speak Latin in 17th century England?

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There's a bit in The Bridge on the River Kwai when an American POW escapes from the camp and gets help from a village further up the river. In real life at the the time, 1943, how would normal people in that part of Thailand have likely really felt towards the Americans and Japanese respectively?

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You know the story of the good samaritan. Why was it the case that Jesus (or who ever actually wrote it) could just take it for granted that the audience would assume Samaritans were uncaring or untrustworthy?

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There’s several scenes in Westworld where you see people eating in the saloon. Are the park designers being authentic in having it operate as a restaurant instead of just a bar?	16	AskHistorians
suppose It's AD150 & I'm the captain of a ship taking grain from Carthage to Rome. what's my Method of navigation once I get out of site of land?	16	AskHistorians
1000 years ago if a commoner tried to kill the king of England would they just be executed in the normal fashion or would they be tortured in someway first?	16	AskHistorians
Would the forced opening of Japan have been considered an important event in the U.S. in the 1850s?	16	AskHistorians
was having dark skin associated with being less civilized before the African slave trade?	16	AskHistorians
in medieval Britain (circa 1250) were men expected to go to the pub alone or was it a family thing?	16	AskHistorians
An SF writer I like, once said that both historical fiction and science fiction became popular in the 19th century because, thanks to the speed of technological change, it was the first time people had a strong sense of the past, present and future being different. Would you agree with that notion?	16	AskHistorians
I read a sci fi story once where some 17th century English sailors encounter aliens and teach them Latin so they can communicate with them, but still speak to each other privately. How common was the ability to speak Latin in 17th century England?	16	AskHistorians
There's a bit in The Bridge on the River Kwai when an American POW escapes from the camp and gets help from a village further up the river. In real life at the the time, 1943, how would normal people in that part of Thailand have likely really felt towards the Americans and Japanese respectively?	16	AskHistorians
You know the story of the good samaritan. Why was it the case that Jesus (or who ever actually wrote it) could just take it for granted that the audience would assume Samaritans were uncaring or untrustworthy?	16	AskHistorians