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What was life like for black people in Dublin or Liverpool (and nearby places) at the turn of the 20th century? How were black people treated in working-class communities?
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Who knows/knew more about the Roman Republic: historians of today or W. European historians of the 8th century? And who is/was more confident about what they know/knew?
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Let's say a young person in late medieval/very early Renaissance Europe is experiencing a personal crisis and can't/won't approach their family about it. Who else might form their support network? Especially medieval women (of any social class)
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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?
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There's a bit of old gun lore that later generation intermediate cartridges (5.56 NATO, 5.45x39) were adopted because they specifically caused fewer deaths but more woundings thus tying up enemy resources in medical care. Substance or complete myth?
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Did 18th-19th century Scandinavia have a dueling culture like the Anglosphere, Francophonie, Germany or Italy did? Did they attempt to draw a connection, metaphorically or literally, to the dueling culture of medieval Scandinavia, such as depicted in the sagas?
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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?
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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?
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