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Before Reagan started returning the salute, how/when did US service members saluting POTUS end their salute?

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When and why did the US stop selling retired military aircraft?

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How did Lee Kwan Yew become so powerful? Are his memoirs known to be accurate?

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What was the relationship between the IJA and the IJN? At times, they seem to have been overly independent, but the IJN also provided air support deep inland over China in the Second Sino-Japanese War.

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Was Thomas Jefferson willing to support the full abolition of slavery? Did he ever make plans to free his slaves?

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William Zanzinger killed poor Hattie Carroll with a cane that he twirled around his diamond ringed finger. Why was he handed out, for penalty and repentance, the punishment of a mere six month prison sentence?

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When, why, and how did cordwaining and cobbling become distinct trades? All I can find is that there were laws barring cobblers from using new leather in England in the 11th(?)-14th centuries and that there's uncertainty as to the etymology of "cobbler." Thanks!

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It's 1793 and a French merchant company is paying me and four others to spend 18 months hunting and skinning ~2,500 seals on Île Amsterdam, so that they can sell the pelts in Canton, China. How much are we being paid? How do we know we'll get the money and passage home?

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When and why did the US stop selling retired military aircraft and the like?

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Was slave labor necessary for Colonial and Antebellum American exports to be profitable? (Or Haitian, Brazilian, etc exports, for that matter.)

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Before Reagan started returning the salute, how/when did US service members saluting POTUS end their salute?	11
When and why did the US stop selling retired military aircraft?	11
How did Lee Kwan Yew become so powerful? Are his memoirs known to be accurate?	11
What was the relationship between the IJA and the IJN? At times, they seem to have been overly independent, but the IJN also provided air support deep inland over China in the Second Sino-Japanese War.	11
Was Thomas Jefferson willing to support the full abolition of slavery? Did he ever make plans to free his slaves?	10
William Zanzinger killed poor Hattie Carroll with a cane that he twirled around his diamond ringed finger. Why was he handed out, for penalty and repentance, the punishment of a mere six month prison sentence?	10
When, why, and how did cordwaining and cobbling become distinct trades? All I can find is that there were laws barring cobblers from using new leather in England in the 11th(?)-14th centuries and that there's uncertainty as to the etymology of "cobbler." Thanks!	10
It's 1793 and a French merchant company is paying me and four others to spend 18 months hunting and skinning ~2,500 seals on Île Amsterdam, so that they can sell the pelts in Canton, China. How much are we being paid? How do we know we'll get the money and passage home?	10
When and why did the US stop selling retired military aircraft and the like?	9
Was slave labor necessary for Colonial and Antebellum American exports to be profitable? (Or Haitian, Brazilian, etc exports, for that matter.)	9