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How were the Siddi (Indians of sub-Saharan African descent) treated in the later colonial period in India/Pakistan? Did their status in society change with the coming of imported European notions of racial hierarchy or did it stay the same?	1
A. Cornelius Cossus to ___ ___, Quaestor Aerarius S.D.: when I grow up I'd like to a fatcat accountant with the keys to vault just like you. What's your day like?	1
Militaries of modern countries are often associated with subcultures distinct from the civilian population (or, for countries with universal conscription, at least distinct from civilian life, e.g. high school part 2). Did the mid & later Roman Republic recognize a subculture in their army?	1
What was the Roman attitude towards the loser in late Republican and early Imperial Rome? Did they have our familiar modern notion of the "noble defeat" in sport, war, or social causes? Was a losing athlete or a survivor of a lost battle/campaign worthy of respect?	1
How did wealthy and upper-middle class white mid-20th century Southerners attempt to rationalize the cruelty of the system their society enforced with the affection they felt for the black nannies and housekeepers that raised them and their children?	1
What were early to 1960s Soviet circuses like? Did they travel on rail like American circus? How much censorship were they subject to? Were there clandestine/unapproved circuses?	1
What were the cultural changes that lead to Ireland's abolition of the death penalty in 1990 (constitutionally in 2001)? And was there a concurrent reassessment of the justification/propriety of executions undertaken by the state during the Civil War?	1
Conduct Unbecoming: How did attitude/behavioral expectations, both on and off-duty, change in the U.S. military between the 1940s and the early 1980s, especially for officers?	1
When did sumo culture in Japan become so conservative/explicitly "traditional"?	1
If someone in the West during the Khrushchev-Brezhnev eras of the USSR, especially in places without particularly close proximity to the Soviet Union & its cultures like the U.S./Canada, wanted to learn about current popular art & music there how easy/hard would it be for them to learn?	0

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