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I am a 17th century English baker. Do I understand why/how my bread is rising? What’s the baking process look like? Is there “magic” or witchcraft” involved?
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Ancient Rome did not have police, but it did have at least some criminal laws. How were those enforced?
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LBJ was elected in 1964 in a landslide victory, yet 4 years later he decided not to run again after it was apparent he wouldn’t win the Democratic primaries. After passing Civil Right, Voting Rights, Medicare, clean air, etc. - was his downfall in popularity solely due to Vietnam?
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Did Woody Guthrie remove two verses from "This Land Is Your Land" to avoid accusations of communism?
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A friend of mine just told me that until the civil rights movement, black men having consensual relationships with white women was legally seen as assault, but any assault done to black women by any man wasn’t punished by law. Is there any validity to this? NSFW
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It's the middle of the night and the Ku Klux Klan has just arrived at my house and looking to do harm. I have right to bear arms and a right to self-defense, so I start blastin'. Do I have any type of protection under the law in the Jim Crow South? Am I arrested the following morning?
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The Druze religion accepted new members and actively evangelized between its founding in 1017 and the "Closing of the Divine Call" in 1043, when it ended new membership and became an exclusively hereditary faith. What social classes, people, and communities in the Fatimid Caliphate became Druze?
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