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Did young people in Feudal Europe feel like they had choices and did they stress about them?

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Book claims many female prostitutes in pre-WWII America wouldn't perform oral sex. Is this true?

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Do any of you write for elementary through high-school textbooks? Are you ever "lobbied" or pressured?

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Was the Republic beloved by the common people of Rome or just the upper classes?

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Was Marx treated as a hero in the USSR?

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Was Jesus' "Love thine enemy" revolutionary?

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The founder of Jainism supposedly only ate other people's leftovers. How common and what quality were left-overs in ancient India?

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In WWII and wars after, did American generals make plans for how troops would have sex?

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Would the 1980's Soviet Union have killed the family of a traitor?

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What is the when, where, and why of the Western premium on eye contact?

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Title	Upvotes	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
Did young people in Feudal Europe feel like they had choices and did they stress about them?	935
Book claims many female prostitutes in pre-WWII America wouldn't perform oral sex. Is this true?	178
Do any of you write for elementary through high-school textbooks? Are you ever "lobbied" or pressured?	173
Was the Republic beloved by the common people of Rome or just the upper classes?	109
Was Marx treated as a hero in the USSR?	84
Was Jesus' "Love thine enemy" revolutionary?	39
The founder of Jainism supposedly only ate other people's leftovers. How common and what quality were left-overs in ancient India?	33
In WWII and wars after, did American generals make plans for how troops would have sex?	29
Would the 1980's Soviet Union have killed the family of a traitor?	28
What is the when, where, and why of the Western premium on eye contact?	28