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The car lobby is often cited as the reason public transportation was stifled in the US. But the US also had a massive powerful railroad industry in the 19th century. Did they try to counter-lobby in any way? Why did they fail?
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How did banks work in the Soviet Union? Were people allowed to save money and accumulate wealth? Was there personal lending? How did this all work in the soviet communist system?
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Western texts talk at length about Eastern goods received from the Silk Road such as spices and silk. What Western goods went east through the Silk Road of Antiquity that were in high demand for Eastern traders?
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The year is 1320, I am a peasant living in Central Europe. During the night, masked men enter my house, assault me and steal the little money I have and some other goods. To whom do I report the theft and what kind of investigation would take place?
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In the recent WWI documentary 'They Shall Not Grow Old' it is stated that the Prussian regiments were considered to be more 'fanatical' and 'aggressive', and that at one point a Bavarian regiment warned their British opponents that their relief was Prussian. Is there evidence to support this?
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Were there former Roman provinces that believed they were a part of the Roman Empire years after its collapse?
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