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When did the terms "Allies" and "Axis" come into use to describe participants of World War II, and what were the two sides referred to at the time?
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I specialise in the history of vasectomy in Britain and, more broadly, histories of eugenics, contraception, reproductive rights, and masculinity. AMA!
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When Patrick O'Brian was revealed to have fabricated his biography in the late-90s (not Irish, not a sailor, not a spy), how much controversy did it cause at the time?
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Did the USSR fund or aid insurrections across the world as the USA and European capitalist nations did?
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National participation in the holocaust varied, but Romania seems to be among the worst, frightening even SS officers, and Bulgaria among the best, inspiring SS officers to reject their orders — Why did these two nations alike in history, religion, and position have such antithetical responses?
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In the fantasy novel A Clash of Kings (1998) by George R. R. Martin, the antagonist Ramsay Snow abducts a widowed noblewoman, forcibly marries her, and kills her in order to claim her lands. To what extent was this tactic possible, legal, and actually practiced in 'real-life' medieval Europe?
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In several hadith (in Islam) the Antichrist is expected to come from the region around Persia. Why Persia? What historical context that makes this narrative possible?
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