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If in ww2 the Nazis had developed and detonated a nuke over Washington D.C. killing the President, V. President and Speaker, before the 1947 Succession Act and 25th Amendment, what would presidential succession look like?

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Could the Third Century Crisis in ancient Rome, the fall of the Han Dynasty in China and the fall of Parthian Empire in Persia be considered an example of systems collapse?

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How did all the western built banks and trade houses on the Shanghai Bund survive the Cultural Revolution? The Communists destroyed temples and gatehouses but not the literal buildings of the bourgeois?

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Reading Archie Browns history of Communism, and seems like Stalin used the elections in Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia as a vehicle to install communist puppet governments. Is that why the CIA felt comfortable overthrowing Mohammed Mosaddegh in Iran?

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Issachar Jacox Roberts died of Leprosy in 1871, is possible he may have passed the disease on to any of the members of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom?

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I’m curious, who was the first black person that if you mentioned their name to a middle class white family they’d generally know who you were talking about? Celebrities/politicians/activists/athletes included?

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If in ww2 the Nazis had developed and detonated a nuke over Washington D.C. killing the President, V. President and Speaker, before the 1947 Succession Act and 25th Amendment, what would presidential succession look like?	1
Could the Third Century Crisis in ancient Rome, the fall of the Han Dynasty in China and the fall of Parthian Empire in Persia be considered an example of systems collapse?	1
How did all the western built banks and trade houses on the Shanghai Bund survive the Cultural Revolution? The Communists destroyed temples and gatehouses but not the literal buildings of the bourgeois?	1
Reading Archie Browns history of Communism, and seems like Stalin used the elections in Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia as a vehicle to install communist puppet governments. Is that why the CIA felt comfortable overthrowing Mohammed Mosaddegh in Iran?	0
Issachar Jacox Roberts died of Leprosy in 1871, is possible he may have passed the disease on to any of the members of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom?	0
I’m curious, who was the first black person that if you mentioned their name to a middle class white family they’d generally know who you were talking about? Celebrities/politicians/activists/athletes included?	0