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To what degree were regular worship, church attendance, and "actual" practice of Catholicism (as opposed to merely self-identification and performative religion) gendered activities in Spain before and during the Civil War?	5
Today in much of the U.S. there's a classist view of transportation: public transport is often thought of as "for poor people & students". Was this true in the past too? Were carriages only for rich people? Were early streetcars only rich & middle class people transport while poor people walked?	5
I've heard that for Republican-Early Imperial Roman elites their auctoritas or dignitas was far more valuable to them than their actual physical wealth. Did their business and social behaviors actually reflect this or was it more of a literary/social ideal they just paid lip service to?	5
OTHER THAN scalping, what purposes, ritually, strategically, socially, etc. did mutilation of enemy corpses by natives serve during the wars of the Great Plains in the 19th century?	5
How accurate is this description of the Ottoman deployment process to a hypothetical European battlefield?	5
How many Muslims lived in Constantinople, Galata, and nearby places right before the Ottoman conquest? How were they treated? And were they targeted by officials or the wider public for violence during the siege?	5
What was court recording like before the modern stenograph? Were people just doing manual shorthand? Do modern historians ever try to decipher scribbly shorthand from 300 year old court cases?	5
Was the United Farm Workers always ostensibly a Mexican-American organization? How did early members react to the Chicano imagery, especially since one of the two original founding organizations was mostly Filipino-American?	5
Were the literati of central & east Asian cultures (China, Japan, Persia, the Mughals, & their neighbors) from the late medieval to early modern periods as pessimistic about the future as Europeans seemed to be?	5
OTHER THAN scalping, what purposes, ritually, strategically, socially, etc. did mutilation of enemy corpses by natives serve during the wars of the Great Plains in the 19th century?	5

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