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Why were freedoms of speech, religion, press, assembly and petition all loaded into the first amendment rather than each given its own amendment?
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My grandpa told me stories about Congolese rivers from his days as an onion merchant ship crew. Said, no matter how deep into the jungle they sailed, many stopovers were flocked with kinds of mercs just like cantinas in Star Wars. He's a bit rigged in the head so I gotta ask, how true is this?
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Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd used to destroy mortgages when he robbed banks. How likely was it that he actually freed people of their mortgages by doing so in the 1930s?
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Why was Winston Churchill so seemingly obsessed with the "soft underbelly" of the enemy? He backed both the failed Galippoli invasion in WW1 and the underwhelming Italian Campaign in WW2.
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In a lot of children-oriented and royalty free representations of Ancient Egypt, we often see figures standing in a distinctive "Egyptian Walk" pose, holding their arms in a Z shape. Yet I have never seen this in authentic Ancient Egyptian art.
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