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What were some famous atheists or agnostics in the Middle Ages? How were they treated?

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Are there any early depictions of Jesus wearing a yarmulke?

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What was the point of the Warsaw Pact? Didn't the Soviet Union already have military control of those countries?

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Can we talk about the Japan-was-rejected-from-the-table narrative from the perspective of Western powers?

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The impression I got from learning about the Soviet Union was that it was a unified country with unlimited federal power. If this is the case, then was the Warsaw pact just to pretend that countries had power? If not, did Soviet countries actually have individual armies that they controlled?

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How, when and where was the split between AM and PM decided? Wouldn't it have made more sense for, at least on the equatorial equinox, 12 AM to be sunrise and 12 PM to be sunset?

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How long after Stalin's death until Soviet citizens started criticizing him? Who was the first person to publicly get away with it?

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What was the original historical justification for having states in the United States instead of a unified government? And has this justification changed over time?

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Was the joke about France surrendering all the time common 20+ years ago?

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Was there a point in history when most maps started showing Greenland as separate from Denmark, or was it always that way?

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What were some famous atheists or agnostics in the Middle Ages? How were they treated?	2
Are there any early depictions of Jesus wearing a yarmulke?	2
What was the point of the Warsaw Pact? Didn't the Soviet Union already have military control of those countries?	2
Can we talk about the Japan-was-rejected-from-the-table narrative from the perspective of Western powers?	2
The impression I got from learning about the Soviet Union was that it was a unified country with unlimited federal power. If this is the case, then was the Warsaw pact just to pretend that countries had power? If not, did Soviet countries actually have individual armies that they controlled?	2
How, when and where was the split between AM and PM decided? Wouldn't it have made more sense for, at least on the equatorial equinox, 12 AM to be sunrise and 12 PM to be sunset?	2
How long after Stalin's death until Soviet citizens started criticizing him? Who was the first person to publicly get away with it?	2
What was the original historical justification for having states in the United States instead of a unified government? And has this justification changed over time?	2
Was the joke about France surrendering all the time common 20+ years ago?	2
Was there a point in history when most maps started showing Greenland as separate from Denmark, or was it always that way?	2