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How did the Romance languages all develop a variant of "pump man" as their word for "firefighter" despite branching (and, in the case of Romanian, becoming isolated) long before the widespread use of water pumps in firefighting?

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Scott Andrew Selby depicts Wilhelm Ludtke as a compulsory Nazi who mostly did the bare minimum required by his post. Is this accurate?

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Why did single-party/totalitarian states need party officials separate from the state? What did they do?

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I've seen in several places the claim that American police primarily evolved from fugitive slave patrols. How true is this?

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How did the Romance languages all develop a variant of "pump man" as their word for "firefighter" despite branching (and, in the case of Romanian, becoming isolated) long before the widespread use of water pumps in firefighting?	2
Scott Andrew Selby depicts Wilhelm Ludtke as a compulsory Nazi who mostly did the bare minimum required by his post. Is this accurate?	1
Why did single-party/totalitarian states need party officials separate from the state? What did they do?	1
I've seen in several places the claim that American police primarily evolved from fugitive slave patrols. How true is this?	1