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When Dwight Eisenhower took office in 1953 Democrats had been in control of the presidency for nearly 20 years. Was there a shortage of experienced Republican personnel to staff the White House?
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Notorious SS officer Reinhard Heydrich was kicked out of the German Navy in 1931 for “conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman”. Has it ever been determined specifically what he did to receive such a harsh, but vague, penalty?
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George Washington and John Adams warned of hyper-partisanship and a two party dominated state. Did they ever offer an alternative system to try to prevent this from happening?
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[Urbanism] In "The Great Train Robbery," Michael Crichton describes wealth and poverty in 1850s London as being so closely juxtaposed that a thief could rob a mansion and cross the street into neighborhood the police wouldn't want to enter; how close to reality is that?
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Why weren’t there diseases in the “new world” that would have effected colonisers similarly to how native Americans were wiped out by western diseases?
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Barring any religious beliefs. Do we actually know who wrote, or condensed the stories of the Bible into the book it is today?
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[Meta] As a Christmas present to r/Askhistorians, could the mods tell us on average how many comments are removed daily?
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