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Why do some older books have a title that seems to be two titles? For example The wreck of the Titan; or Futility
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In Guys and Dolls, Nathan Detroit claims that he hasn’t yet married his fiancée of fourteen years because he can’t afford “the blood test”. Why did you need a blood test to get married in 1950s New York?
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Prior to the launch of global imaging satellites, had cartographers accurately mapped the whole world? Did the first satellite images of the planet provide us with new places to explore?
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Does Arno Mayer's theory that the first world war was launched by Europe's elites to distract from the possibility of mass revolutionary activity have much support?
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Jon Stewart did a famous interview with Judith Miller where he says that there was “a concerted effort to take us to war in Iraq". Did this concerted effort actually exist in the US government?
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