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In cases where the CIA backed coups in the Cold War, was the State Department involved or even aware of what was being planned? Did the local ambassadors typically have to give approval?
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Did 18th century line infantry wear hearing protection? If not, did they report hearing loss later in life?
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What was the actual death toll of the Spanish Inquisition? How common was torture? How long did it last? Was it exaggerated or minimized in popular thought?
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Two guys in Poland are claiming they found an old Nazi train loaded with gold deep in a Polish mountain, can somebody tell me more about this and are there more WOII myths/stories like these?
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The first transatlantic cable must have been a sea-change in communications... is it correct to assume that the time it took for news to travel from the US to Europe went from weeks/months to instant? Are there firsthand sources of people marveling at this and the impact on life as they knew it?
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Suppose you're an English Lord living around 1110 to 1120, how often would you actually eat one of those giant lavish multi-course feasts that people tend to dwell on when they talk about medieval dinning?
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