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Are there any misconceptions the public have about the Holocaust, that might be hard to explain without coming across as a Holocaust denier/revisionist?
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I want to know more about the Pinkerton detectives. Were there many private security agencies like them when they were prominent? What could and couldn’t they do legally, and what’s changed since then? What caused them to fall out of the spotlight, considering they company still exists?
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As I understand it, sword duels between gentlemen were rarely to the death, but rather ended at first blood. Why then did English duellers switch to using pistols when this could more easily kill them or their opponent?
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If actual combat wasn't common during medieval wars, why are there so many developments on arms and armor during the medieval period?
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A handful of protected “too big to fail” companies now have tremendous influence on geopolitics. What actually happened economically and politically when East India Company, the original TBTF monolith, failed or was forced to end/split?
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The movie Patton claimed General George S. Patton believed he could remember living and fighting in past lives. Was this apocryphal, for movie drama, or did he actually claim this? Also, how extensively was his death investigated after the war?
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Did Shakespeare really "invent" hundreds of words, or are his plays just the oldest examples of those words being written down?
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