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Did the historical Israelites actually fight the wars and conquer the cities and peoples described in Numbers, Joshua and other books of the Bible?
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Joris-Karl Huysmans called Edgar Degas's Little Dancer of Fourteen Years "the first truly modern attempt at sculpture I know." What made it truly modern, and what did "modern" mean to a French writer or artist in 1880?
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The author William Boyd claims that with Anton Chekhov, "For the first time in literature the fluidity and randomness of life was made the form of the fiction. Before Chekhov, the event-plot drove all fictions." Is that true at all?
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Did alchemists have any concerns about the potential economic consequences of being able to turn common metals into gold?
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The United States hasn't declared war on a country since 1942, despite obviously having fought in many wars since then. Why?
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How did the term "nativism" come to be used for an ideology which, in the US, is all about the descendants of colonists and immigrants who massacred and displaced the country's native population?
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The Japanese were deemed honorary Aryans by Hitler, but how confident could they be that this designation would last after the war was over, or whenever their alliance was no longer considered useful? Did they have a plan in case they were next in line for genocide by the Nazis?
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