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Early modern (15/16th century) European illustrations depict farms as being very packed in, with an enormous variety of crops and animals growing very close together. Were farms actually like this i.e diverse, self-sufficient, and did people's diets reflect this?

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In the movie 'For a few dollars more' Lee Van Cleef's character uses a revolver attached to a rifle stock. Did this actually happen during the 1860s/1870s?

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Early modern (15/16th century) European illustrations depict farms as being very packed in, with an enormous variety of crops and animals growing very close together. Were farms actually like this i.e diverse, self-sufficient, and did people's diets reflect this?	182
In the movie 'For a few dollars more' Lee Van Cleef's character uses a revolver attached to a rifle stock. Did this actually happen during the 1860s/1870s?	48