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What are the most likely reasons Old Sarum got two Members of Parliament?	7
Were there unifying reasons for the rises and falls of large, wealthy, diverse R&D companies like Bell Labs? Bell Labs, GE, and PARC all still exist in some form, but only GE is still a major entity and they're no longer particularly innovative.	7
[Corruption & Anti-Corruption movements] 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 six month prison sentence?	6
What was the extent of Thomas Jefferson's advocacy for abolition and was the hypocrisy of Jefferson advocating abolition while keeping his own slaves noted/criticized during his political career or later life?	6
Lower class children have historically offset the cost of raising them or even increased a family's resources from middle childhood through unskilled labor. But what about aristocratic children? At what age did aristocrats generally start contributing to their family's resources?	6
[Great Reformers] How were Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs contemporaneously received?	6
Today marks 50 years and two days since the Kent State "Incident." What, if any, controversy is there over how and why the shootings occurred? How was the National Guard affected and how did it respond? Should the incident be called a "massacre?" (Why/why not?)	6
What policies did the Nazis enact to INCREASE birthrates, and what were their effects?	6
Why did Carter lose the Evangelical vote to Reagan?	6
Apparently, Monaco's real estate development east of the Casino de Monte-Carlo was almost all done after WWII, even though Monaco was well under 1 square mile in size. (Even with land reclamation, it's still under 1 square mile in size.) Why?	6

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