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I visited an insane asylum recently and the tour guide said that women who were committed by their husbands could only be released by their husbands - so if he died while she was in there, she was doomed to stay.

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I’m looking for information on a typical medical student’s class schedule in 1900

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In the early 20th century, how long would a coal mine be in operation before being depleted?

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Interracial marriage was declared to be protected by the constitution in the US in 1967. What was the interracial marriage experience like in neighboring and equal countries that had never created laws against it? Specifically around the Civil War/turn of the century era...

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Were patients in an insane asylum/state hospital allowed to get married in the 19th century?

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I visited an insane asylum recently and the tour guide said that women who were committed by their husbands could only be released by their husbands - so if he died while she was in there, she was doomed to stay.	206
I’m looking for information on a typical medical student’s class schedule in 1900	4
In the early 20th century, how long would a coal mine be in operation before being depleted?	3
Interracial marriage was declared to be protected by the constitution in the US in 1967. What was the interracial marriage experience like in neighboring and equal countries that had never created laws against it? Specifically around the Civil War/turn of the century era...	2
Were patients in an insane asylum/state hospital allowed to get married in the 19th century?	2