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What does the math look like when calculating how much force it takes to crush a full soup can with a force coaxial with the can?
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Throughout the history of Christian Europe, Jews were faced with the decision: convert or die. As an atheist, faking the conversion seems the obvious choice. What religious or legal factors prevented Spanish Jews from faking a conversion to Christianity to avoid death?
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How did the US Marshals - both in general, and the ones escorting Ruby Bridges to school in particular - feel about integration? Was there resistance among the ranks? Was there opposition that was quelled by the chain of command?
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I've heard that in the Age of Sail, an exploratory trip to the far flung parts of the world could have a 50% fatality rate to scurvy. What was the mood like among the crew when a ship got such an assignment? I would have previously though jubilant, now horrified.
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'TIL Parasite (parasitus) was an accepted role in Roman society, in which a person could live off the hospitality of others, in return for "flattery, simple services, and a willingness to endure humiliation".' Is any part of this correct?
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In 1986, Rudy Giuliani imprisoned the heads of all five New York mafia Families - and, surprisingly to me, lived to the tell the tale. In the decades after the passage of RICO, how did American law enforcement protect their own from organized crime?
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With desegregation in the US, I believe there was a decrease in demand for small businesses - where previously two existed to serve two populations, now one could serve both populations. Overall, did the white community or the non-white community expand more/contract less than the other?
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How did crime and imprisonment rates compare between the USSR and the USA during the Cold War? I'm especially interested in the period after de-Stalinization.
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