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In his 'Arsenal of Democracy'-speech, Roosevelt implied that the Axis powers might try to invade the US at some point. Did he know that Japan and Germany had no such plans or did he genuinely fear an invasion?
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During the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, women were seen as having a naturally greater sex drive than men; today the opposite is true. When and why did this change occur?
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When did the phrase 'Judeo-Christian' become popular and why? Does it have anything to do with the Holocaust?
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When did the phrase 'Judeo-Christian' become popular and why? Does it have anything to do with the Holocaust?
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Why did the USSR choose an inhabited area in Kazakhstan (the Semipalatinsk Test Site) to test nuclear weapons?
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Why was the year of the Hijra chosen as the beginnning of the Islamic calendar? Why not the year of Muhammed's birth, his first revelation or his death?
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Nahum Sarna argues that the Genesis creation story was never meant as a literal, scientific explanation of the origins of the world. If this is true and Genesis was always meant to be allegorical, then how did the author of Genesis (and other ancient Israelites) think that the world came about?
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