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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?	3	AskHistorians
When did Irish people in Ireland start thinking of emigrants as "Irish-Americans" and not "Irish in America" (or substitute "-Canadians", "-Australians", or anywhere in the diaspora) and how did they talk and write about it?	3	AskHistorians
Given that the later Ottomans seemed to look down strongly on their nomadic or peasant/"Turk" subjects, what did they make of their dynasty's own nomadic origins? Did they downplay the nomadic/semi-nomadic background of their predecessors?	3	AskHistorians
Were there trade guilds in the late Eastern Roman Empire? Were there "national" guilds that coordinated local guilds? How did Eastern Roman guild structures influence those of neighboring and successor states?	3	AskHistorians
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.	3	AskHistorians
The French military operated state-run brothels until 1995. Was the general public aware of their existence in those last few decades? What was the public attitude towards prostitution (state-sanctioned and general) & questions of exploitation, the final brothel being in a colonial possession?	3	AskHistorians
Did the religion of the Ancient Romans influence that of the peoples they contacted?	3	AskHistorians
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	AskHistorians
Was there any sign of revanchism towards their Bronze Age territories by later ancient Egyptians, even if only rhetorically? Did Late Period or Hellenistic rulers consider themselves the nominal suzerains of the Levant by right of their Egyptian legitimacy, for example?	2	AskHistorians
In what parts of the U.S. and Canada in the 19th and early 20th centuries would it have been common for non-indigenous people to learn indigenous languages or related pidgins/creoles?	2	AskHistorians

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