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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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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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Seneca relates a tale of a cruel Roman knight who kept a pool of lampreys (or possibly moray eels) at his villa for throwing slaves into to be eaten. Would this actually be feasible?
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Why did the USSR make no efforts to rescue Ernst Thaelmann from Soviet captivity after their rapproachment with Germany in 1939?
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Many of the high-ups in the Khmer Rouge were educated in France. Is this a significant fact, and if so, why?
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What was it like to travel across the continental United States by car before the interstate highway network was constructed?
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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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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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