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It's generally accepted by mainstream historians that Robert E. Lee was not actually a genteel anti-slavery advocate who was compelled by reluctant honor to choose his homeland, but did Lee himself work to build this image, or was it built for him by Lost Cause advocates after he died?
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The Inca Empire referred to itself as the 'Four Parts Together', but what were the four parts, and what distinguished them? Was it just an arbitrary administrative separation, or did they represent distinct cultural groups within the empire?
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Are there cases of Jewish people that remained in hiding for months/years after WW2 was over, because they were unaware it ended?
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How did the early Chinese react to Vietnamese women’s higher status and more dominant role in society?
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Julius Caesar allegedly ended a revolt of his soldiers by saying one word. Does anyone have any more information on this event?
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Did the Mafia play any role in the occupation and subsequent liberation Sicily and Italy during WW2?
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I just listened to Dan Carlin's latest Hardcore History podcast. In it he claimed that most of the armies on the Western Front in World War I trained their soldiers in how to kill a wounded comrade to end his suffering. Is there any truth to this?
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How did Manichaeism go from one of the chief rivals of early Christianity to extinct or almost so by the 1300s? Especially when it had such a large range from Rome to China?
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