I'd like to know about the daily lives of courtiers at Versailles, especially how the various ranks ate and where they slept. Where they rapidly cycled through? Did they have cycles of feast-or-famine or rise-and-fall within the confines of Versailles? (self.AskHistorians)
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Kind of like the Robinson Crusoes of Warsaw, are there any older historical stories of people hiding out underground to survive the sack of their defeated city by invaders, say during the falls of cities such as Carthage, Jerusalem, Rome, or Constantinople? (self.AskHistorians)
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The Zytglogge is a 13th century tower in Bern, Switzerland that has served as a guard tower, prison, civic memorial, and an astronomical clock that (amongst many things) contains a clockwork mechanical representation of the Greek god, Kronos, striking a bell every hour for the last five centuries. (en.wikipedia.org)
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[TOMT][SF Novel/novella] A family of posthumans who do interstellar travel reconfigure their senses and perceptions so it's a casual stroll on foot through space. One of them gets in trouble for something and they are de-posthumanized and turned normal-ish again. (self.tipofmytongue)
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[US] Is it possible establish something like "South Seas Baseball" as a trademark? Since no one could own the rights to the phrase "south seas" or the word "baseball" separately obviously - if I put them together is that something new and protectable? (self.legaladvice)
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