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Let's say there WAS room at the inn. What might Mary and Joseph's experience have been like at the 'first Christmas'?

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What would the experience of going to an inn in a modest town in the Kingdom of Judah around 2000 years ago be like?

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Say I'm an innkeeper in Israel out in the remote suburbs of Jerusalem around 2000 years ago. What is my life, livelyhood and place of business likely like?

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Have there been any other agreeable transfers of territory through gifts/purchases/trades between states on the scale of the Louisiana and Alaska Purchases?

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Let's say there WAS room at the inn. What might Mary and Joseph's experience have been like at the 'first Christmas'?	279
What would the experience of going to an inn in a modest town in the Kingdom of Judah around 2000 years ago be like?	33
Say I'm an innkeeper in Israel out in the remote suburbs of Jerusalem around 2000 years ago. What is my life, livelyhood and place of business likely like?	3
Have there been any other agreeable transfers of territory through gifts/purchases/trades between states on the scale of the Louisiana and Alaska Purchases?	2