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Urban warfare is seen as a fairly modern concept, house to house fighting, smoke grenades and air strikes but where their other major instances of urban fighting prior to the rise of modern firearms?
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In 1784 Thomas Jefferson proposed federal legislation banning slavery in the New Territories after 1800, which failed by one vote. What was the origin of this legislation, and what prompted the single Southern vote in favor, the absent New Jersey representative, and its overall failure to pass?
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Were there any cases of Black American Soldiers in World War 2 meeting, talking, or interacting with African colonial fighters from other allied nations?
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Margaret Thatcher famously considered 'Yes, Minister' to be her favourite telly programme, and was one of many politicians to remark that it was somewhat true to life. To what extent were ministers really subverted by the civil service in the second half of the twentieth century?
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Latin was, "the primary language of Europe until it was killed off by renaissance scholars who complained that Modern Latin was nowhere near the strength of classical Latin." How true is this?
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In The Compleat Angler (1653) three complete strangers quickly enter into protracted conversation and eventually lodge together. In Barry Lyndon (set in the 1750s) Barry is invited to eat with strangers within seconds of meeting. Was it common for random people to just...hang out?
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