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Karl Marx published the first volume of Capital in 1867, two years after the American civil war and around the beginning of the "Old West" period in the United States. Were there any communist cowboys?
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In Peter Kropotkin's "The Conquest of Bread", he repeatedly cites the English Lifeboat Association (circa the 1890s) as exemplifying the principles of free agreement and anarchic organization. How exactly was the association organized/run at this time?
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Is it really true that conceptualizing women's breasts as sexually attractive is (relatively) unique to the modern West?
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I have read the claim that "Sanskrit has 100 times the number of manuscripts of Latin and Ancient Greek combined". How much validity is there to this? If it is true, what precisely might be meant by "number of manuscripts"?
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What is the history of the job interview? When and how did it originate, and become so ubiquitous? Also, how did the standard set of job interview questions (like "what are your biggest strengths/weaknesses") come about?
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Greek and Roman mythology are famously very similar. How many of these similarities are traceable back to Proto-Indo-European religion, and how many emerged through later cultural contact between the Romans and the Greeks?
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What level of familiarity with Marxist historiography is necessary before attempting to read the work of a Marxist/Marxian historian?
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In Tokugawa Japan, why did the Shogunate continue to allow the daimyo to exist? It seems the shogun had the power to reassign daimyo at will, and some daimyo posed a consistent threat to his power. Why not just remove them all and transfer local administrative duties to the provinces or something?
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