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In The West Wing, Jed Bartlet agonizes over which specific Bible he will use to swear in at his second inauguration. Has this historically been a notable political conundrum for US Presidents? Was it ever a conversation piece for typical voters?
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Did feudal lords genuinely protect peasents from attacks, crime, and other threats to their livelyhood? Or did the nobility mainly exist to extract produce from serfs?
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What was the reaction of the Portuguese when they found out that there were Christians in India that used Syriac as liturgical language and claimed that were founded by Saint Thomas, the Apostle?
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The musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (based on Genesis 41) mentions that ancient Egypt had grain stored for a seven year famine. Was this architecturally feasible?
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Historians, where are some good places that I can donate pictures of victims of the Holocaust? They are starting to mold and I do not want a tragic but important part of history to be lost.
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Singapore is quite proud of its leap from "third world to first world" within a generation. How true is this claim? Was Singapore in its early years truly a poor and backwards state, or did it actually inherit the institutions and infrastructure for building a wealthy nation?
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