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Inthe trailer for a Minecraft update, "In the hall of the Goblin King" is used humorously to show the two characters repeatedly being killed by zombies. When did this song (and more generally classical music) being to be used to add a humorous undertone to montage scenes?
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On a slave-run plantation in the American south there was an enslaved “butler” whose job afaik was to generally serve the white family. Did the social pecking order in the house (father, son, wife, daughter) díctate who “got” the butler’s time? If not, then what did?
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How did the word “ok” come to be used in so many languages with practically the same meaning and pronunciation?
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In the US (though I assume the world too) being genetically related to someone is the basis on which money, power, right to rule etc rests. How did someone (a prince, mother, etc) prove they were who they claimed before DNA was known?
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I recall reading about a beauty parlor that gave “beauty classes” to Jewish women to teach them to appear “Aryan.” Was this a widespread phenomenon? What other ways did people helps Jews and other slated for death to pass appearance-wise?
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How did the Holocaust come to be publicly commemorated mainly through individual first-hand accounts rather than synthesized narratives?
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How did soldier deal with survivors found in the woods who had fled the death marches from concentration camps? Did they bring them along to an army facility to receive medical aid?
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