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Alexander Hamilton had great success and helped build the United States, but by the end of the 1790s he told a friend that there is no place in this country for me. Why did he feel this way?
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Why did so many prominent post-War French Philosophers, such as Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, and Jean-Paul Sartre sign a petition against age of consent laws?
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Why do many people take sniper kill counts for granted? Can we really trust any of the offical numbers, some as high as 4-500? How reliable are the figures?
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How were feminist movements in countries with male-only compulsory military service (e.g. Finland, Singapore) affected by such policies, if at all? What did they think about such policies, which some men claim favours women since they had the priviledge to not serve?
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When a Roman emperor or European king would mint new coins with his portrait (or whatever) on them, did they take the old ones of previous rulers out of circulation? Or would citizens be faced with a myriad of coins with different faces of different people?
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When did the "tipping culture" in the US originate? Was there ever "mandatory" tipping prior to that in other countries?
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