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In Don Quixote, Cervantes claims that even if the 'insane' Don Quixote commits murder, he would not be held accountable. Was this actually the case for the Spanish legal system in the early 1600s?	230
A.J.P. Taylor famously described Giuseppe Garibaldi as ‘the only admirable figure in modern history’. What qualities did Garibaldi possessed which appeals to and might compel Taylor to make such a statement?	196
Today, the Taliban has banned Nowruz from being publicly celebrated due to the festival being 'pagan'. Has religious/political backlash against the Persian festival always been present or is this a more recent development?	176
In a meeting with FDR, Ibn Saud reportedly protested the idea that Israel should be in the Middle East, instead suggesting that it should be in Bavaria (Germany). But why Bavaria?	143
In 1990, an amendment to the Clean Air Act was passed in a bipartisan manner. Yet, in 2001, the US pulled out of the Kyoto Protocol. How did climate change turn from a bipartisan to a partisan issue in those 11 years?	138
From 1996 to 2001, the Afghan Northern Alliance managed to hold out against the Taliban regime. How did they manage to do this?	132
According to Al Jazeera, it wasn‘t until 1982 that West Germany officially recognize the Nazi‘s genocide of Roma and Sinti people. But why did this recognition occur in 1982?	109
Economic historians, just how disastrous was Haiti's 'debt' to France to the Haitian economy?	104
W.E.B. DuBois asserted that around the 1880s-1890s, to get a ‚real position in a university‘ every American had to go to Germany‘s universities to get their degree. Why and how did this tradition develop in the US university System?	100
I‘m an unmarried American white women in a secret relationship with an African-American man in 1900s Ohio. My town has found out, and I haven't denied our relationship, what would my punishment be? Could I also be lynched?	99

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