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Was it very difficult to wear a bustle? Could they be put on and taken off without assistance? Could you sit on a chair or ride in a carriage while wearing one? Did they complicate using a bathroom? Did you have to be extra aware of your surroundings, so as to not knock stuff over all the time?
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In his sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” Jonathan Edwards says “[the Devil] stands waiting for them, like greedy hungry lions that see their prey, and expect to have it…” What would the average English colonist have known of exotic African animals like lions, elephants, etc. in 1741?
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How were students selected to study at universities hundreds of years ago? What qualified them before GPAs and ACTs? (Places like: U of Oxford, U of Bologna, U of Paris, Harvard U, etc.)
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Considering how easy it is to get an infection from a badly administered tattoo, how have so many different cultures managed to give people tattoos for thousands of years without killing everybody that got one?
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During the cold war, did the Soviet Union actually build "American" towns as places for Soviet spies to train to pass for Americans?
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Would people who live on different planets age at different rates if one planet moves through space faster than the other?
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How serious was the “Mormon Extermination Order” (Missouri 1838)? Could someone really have killed a Mormon who refused to leave the area and get away without punishment? Did that ever happen?
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