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Where does the president's cabinet come from? I'm Dr. Lindsay Chervinsky, here to discuss my new book 'The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution' and early Presidential history, AMA!
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How come some of the Nazi leadership were pagans or practiced occultism and mysticism despite most of Germany being Christian? Did Hitler seek such men out? Was there a plan to erradicate Christianity in Germany and replace it with such beliefs? What did German citizens think of all this?
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The Knights Hospitaller (AKA the Knights of Malta) ruled over Malta and its people for nearly 300 years. How did the knights govern? Was the Grand Master a proto-head of state, or did the knights have some kind of special committee to administrate the island, the people, and collect taxes?
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Teotihuacan was the most influential and powerful city state of its time, with control over a large trade network. They worshiped a "spider goddess" but this goddess doesn't seem to show up in later pantheons after the city was abandoned. Why?
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Tiananmen 1989: Is it true that the Chinese army used tanks to crush the dead bodies of protesters to be able to wash them into the sewer?
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When the people of Salem threw suspected witches in a river and they drowned, did they acknowledge that they had killed an innocent person?
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There is a fantasy trope of the use of “famous swords” (e.g.: rallying around the carrier of some ancestral blade, fear of a specific sword). Is there any historical basis for this?
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