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Who would've been a factory worker in 19th century Europe's arms industry? Would the machinists all be adult men? Would women seek out or be sought out for work in the arms industry at all? Were children employed (for small parts manufacture maybe)?	2
In the early days of civilian and military rocketry was there a risk that a space exploration launch would be detected and mistaken for a military launch? How did the relevant powers keep each other in the loop?	2
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.	2
Other than the run up to the Civil War and later KKK terrorism, was inter-party violence ever a regular part of electoral politics in the U.S. at the state/territory or national level?	2
Modern Western (or at least American) aesthetics idealizes/fetishes young bodies over old ones, and young female bodies over young male bodies*. Was this the case in ancient Mediterranean art and poetry as well?	2
How influential was German scholarship in the social sciences (esp. Anthropology, Archaeology, Linguistics, Psychology) from the 1920s to 1945? How politicized was it? Was there a postwar reassessment of these fields for ideological biases?	2
Beyond religious issues, to what degree did the Civil Rights movement in (Northern) Ireland address ethnic and racial issues? And where did the Traveler/Mincéir community appear in the conversation, being neither foreign or mainstream?	2
Did the demographics/wealth level of visitors to national parks change with the proliferation of the automobile in the U.S., especially in Western states/territories? Did many people even visit far off (from Eastern cities) national parks before personal transportation became affordable?	2
How and when did "empire" transform from a narrow term for Christian/Greek/Roman legitimacy to a broad type of state organization? And other questions.	2
Would rats and mice have been associated with disease and uncleanliness in urban spaces before the widespread popular awareness of germ theory?	2

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