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Andrew Jackson is known to history as an impulsive, reckless guy who took personal slights and adopted governmental policies in reaction. Was this known when he was in office? Did it have any affect on his popularity?
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AFAIK, one of the reasons for Mecca's opposition to Muhammad was the importance of the pilgrimage business. Was the development of the Hajj as a very important act in Islam a compromise for the needs of the Meccans?
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Hi! I'm Dr. Megan Hunt, cultural historian of the civil rights movement. I study how your favourite films about civil rights have shaped how we understand the movement itself. I'm here to answer your questions about civil rights for Black History Month. AMA!
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What was life like in the Papal States for ordinary people? Any time period is interesting to me - I'm curious mainly whether it functioned like any other italian state or if it was significantly different to them on account of the Pope's rule
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Is there historical precedent for the absurd housing costs in modern cities like Amsterdam, San Francisco, New York, etc? If you go back to the 1920s or 1960s for example would it have been comparatively expensive in these kinds of cities as it is now?
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Did the Manchu (Qing) empire know of its connection to the earlier Jurchen Jin dynasty? Did they ever harken back to the memory of that dynasty in their official propaganda? Did they ever want to take revenge from the Mongols for destroying the Jurchen Jin empire?
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