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What role, if any, did axes play in ancient warfare, especially when compared to spears or swords?

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I'm a hot blooded young Soviet man in the 1950s hitting the streets of Moscow for a night out with my comrades and I got rubles burning a hole in my purse. What kind of vice and wanton pleasures are available to me?

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Which way was William Faulkner leaning politically (in the 1920s)? What exactly did he mean in his resignation letter in 1923 when he referred to "itinerant scoundrel[s]" with "two cents to invest in a postage stamp"?

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What role, if any, did axes play in ancient warfare, especially when compared to spears or swords?	1316
I'm a hot blooded young Soviet man in the 1950s hitting the streets of Moscow for a night out with my comrades and I got rubles burning a hole in my purse. What kind of vice and wanton pleasures are available to me?	8
Which way was William Faulkner leaning politically (in the 1920s)? What exactly did he mean in his resignation letter in 1923 when he referred to "itinerant scoundrel[s]" with "two cents to invest in a postage stamp"?	2