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France is proposing to ban the wearing of the Muslim abaya headscarf in French schools on the basis of its strict state secularism or "laïcité". What are the origins of this policy? Has France ever come into conflict with other religious minorities in enforcing "laïcité"?
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Did Adolf Hitler really say that Belgian collaborationist politician Leon Degrelle was the son he never had? (And other Qs re: Degrelle)
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When and where did it first become common for ordinary people to have a bank account rather than keeping their wealth on their person or hidden somewhere safe?
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I am a foreman or skilled worker in a factory in St Petersburg or Moscow during the Great Purge. I am not a Party member and do not take part in political activities. How much danger am I in?
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A common fantasy trope is of wandering adventurers who travel from town to town seeking work as mercenaries, bodyguards, bandit-fighters and swords-for-hire. Was this a common occupation in Medieval Europe? What about in other areas and time periods?
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If the Confederacy had won the Civil War, how likely is it that they would have tried to expand the CSA into the Caribbean/Latin America to create the "Golden Circle"?
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In the antebellum South, would a child of a free black slaveholder and a slave mother be free or slave?
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