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Ten US states created state-owned banks in the 1800s. All of them failed the early 1900s. In 1919 North Dakota created its own state-run bank-and it's still going more than 100 years later. What set North Dakota's bank apart from the previous failures?
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In WW1, was it really, "not unusual for two or three German soldiers on bicycle or horseback to escort as many as 500 Russian prisoners?"
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I am a minor knight in 13th-century England, and thanks to friends in high places I've been awarded some land of my own... but currently nobody lives there. Where/how do I recruit some peasants to farm my lands for me? How much will it cost? What rights will they have?
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Has there always been a ~30 year “cultural echo” as young people that are now in positions of power and influence set out to recreate fashion and cultural trends that were popular when they were children?
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I have heard that Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian. But when I think about German food, I can’t think of a single vegetarian entrée. What would a vegetarian diet in 1940s Germany actually look like?
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Around 1700, Scotland attempted to start a small colony in Panama, in an area Spain had claimed. They were forced out after a Spanish blockade. Did the Scots anticipate this response? If so, why did they still attempt to create this colony?
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In 1002 in the king of England(Æthelred) ordered that killing of all the Danes in the country. as I understand it England didn't have anything analogues to a police force or a standing army back then, that being the case who would have been charged with actually carrying out that genocide?
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