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How visible (and audible) was women's public life in the central to eastern Mediterranean and nearby inland areas in the early modern period, especially among elite and/or urban women?
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Mariners in the age of sail have a reputation for being exceptionally superstitious. But were they really more superstitious than the average person? What separated a superstition from a "regular stition" anyway?
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Why is it that Sikhs appear to be disproportionately represented in the American trucking industry? Is it related to the fact that Punjabis appear to be disproportionately represented in the Indian trucking industry? Is it related to the Partition, as I've seen explained in non-academic sources?
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In medieval or ancient Europe (or places nearby) was skipping considered childish the way it is now? Did adults skip on the way to work if they were feeling whimsical? Or would people think an adult was weird for doing something only kids do?
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How long after germ theory became solidly accepted by Western health workers and biologists did it take for concepts re: "bad air"/miasma to disappear from the beliefs and practices of average people?
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Pop culture sometimes preemptively declares the 21st century as "China's century". Which country (or countries) did commentators in 1880, 1900, or 1920 predict would be the economic, cultural and political powerhouse(s) of the 20th?
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It's the 19th century American frontier. My mixed race family would like to educate our children in the (presumably whites-only) Territory or County-funded schoolhouse and we're on very good terms with our neighbors. Can we get away with it?
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1050 CE: I'm a countryside farmer in what is now eastern France (Burgundy). Who do I consider a foreigner? Is a Christian in Dijon a foreigner? What about a Jew in Dijon? Or either in Paris? Is a guy in the next valley a foreigner? How does a foreigner become "one of ours?"
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How did upper-class continental Europeans of the Napoleonic Era judge the Scots? Did they consider them European? White? Civilized or not (quite)? And did they mistakenly assume that the culture and imagery of the Highlands represented the whole country?
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