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What did Soviet far futurology look like? How did & and other Communist artists & writers imagine the far-off future after the End of History? Did they have access to Western futurology/science fiction?	15
Did people organize their time in small units (smaller than an hour) before the wide availability of clocks? Was there anything analogous to a "15 minute meeting" or a 2-minute boxing round? Time period and place below.	15
How much of a taboo were public women's sports in the United States in the first 30 years of so of the 20th century? What sports were "acceptable" and what was absolutely verboten?	15
The treatment of Roman mining slaves was notoriously brutal. What was their life expectancy? How much of the Roman slave population were assigned to mining & similar work during the height of the Republican & early Imperial periods?	15
Did Romans think Rome would last forever? Or did they think it likely/inevitable that they would eventually decline or be conquered by someone else? And did eschatological thinking exist in Rome before the Christian era?	14
How much of the mid 20th century FBI's investigation into "subversive activities" of public figures (including people as innocuous today as Albert Einstein) actually concerned "subversion" & how much was simply digging up dirt to "screw them" in the Nixonian sense?	14
What was it like doing archaeology and history work in China from the 1970s-90s, both for foreign and local Chinese researchers? What special challenges did the Party and its preference or perceived preferences for particular narratives present?	14
In the late Medieval & Renaissance periods did commoners living under a rich king or sultan have better quality of life than commoners living under a poorer king or sultan or was every commoner everywhere equally poor?	14
How did modern policing develop in Japan and Korea? Did Japanese/Korean police forces adopt late 19th/early 20th c. European practices by large degrees or did they mostly refine and update their own traditions, practices, and norms?	13
Did Romans in the first centuries BCE and CE think that Rome would last forever (or at least as long as humanity existed)? Was there pre-Christian Roman eschatological belief?	13

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