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Tolkien writes in The Silmarillion of a battle between Sauron and Finrod Felagund that took the form of competing songs; almost like a "rap battle". Was there a historical basis in Tolkien's time and place of linguistic focus for such a conflict?
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How were Soviet and East German spies in the US trained to lose their accents when speaking English?
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First French Republic was not the first or only republic in the Europe at the time, nor was Louis XVI the first monarch to be executed. Why did the French Revolution cause such a high level of reaction from the other European countries?
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Were kunoichis/ female ninjas in ancient japan actually trained to kill their target by seduction and wearing revealing clothes and get their guard down, using hidden weapons, or is it just another women on the battlefield trope by movies?
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In his memoirs Eisenhower wrote that after 1955, "no region of the world received as much of my close attention and that of my colleagues as did the Middle East." What did he mean by that? Other than the Suez crisis, what else happened that demanded his attention?
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How did the ancient people of the Nile Valley come to be referred to as Egyptians, and not Kemetians?
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