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During the Korean War, MacArthur sent a letter to the Speaker of the House stating that "if we lose the war to communism in Asia the fall of Europe is inevitable, win it and Europe most probably would avoid war and yet preserve freedom." Is there any valid basis for MacArthur's claims?
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Can anybody point me to a good work or discussion on the rise of the religious right in the Republican Party? Especially the mechanisms the religious right employed to gain influence within the party.
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"In the early colonial years, most Africans in the Thirteen Colonies were held under such contracts of indentured servitude. they were released after a contracted period with many of the indentured receiving land and equipment." If this is true, why weren't any black slave owners remaining later on?
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The original Hippocratic Oath contains a clause banning the doctor from conducting an abortion. What do we know about ancient societies' laws regarding abortion and infanticide?
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What factors contributed to whether or not an ancient author's works survived to the modern day? Why do we have, for example, a great deal more of Aristotle than we do Posidonius?
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