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I’m an English heir of a noble house whose been away for 10 years warring in the holy lands. When I come back, all my family has died, who do I have to prove to that I’m the legitimate successor and how would I go about this?
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The soldiers of the Arkansas National Guard went from enforcing segregation to enforcing integration within a week in 1957. How did they react to this?
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Were there any 'losers' in the Columbian Exchange - vegetables or fruits that ended up being dropped from popular consumption in either the Americas or Europe because they were replaced by something better in their culinary niches?
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Thirty-four years after scribbling E = mc2, Albert Einstein wrote to President Franklin Roosevelt to warn him the Nazis were turning his famous theory into a nuclear weapon. How did Einstein know this, and did Roosevelt actually read his letter?
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In Avatar, Firelord(King) Zuko lived as a wanderer/waiter before becoming Firelord. This was a contrast with his privileged childhood as a prince. Is there any real life e.g. of kings who were born into power spending years as peasants before taking the throne? Particularly Absolute or Feudal kings?
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