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What are your thoughts on Ibn Khaldun's 'Muqaddimah' (1377), sometimes also called his 'Prolegomena to the Book of Lessons'?
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I've read that, on Feb. 25th of 1917, a German destroyer was dispatched to shell Lord Northcliffe's country home in Kent with the intention of assassinating him. Do we know *which* destroyer this was? [x-post from /r/WWI]
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How was Bishop Fulton Sheen able to become so widely popular -- on television, no less -- during a time when Roman Catholicism was still viewed with a certain amount of bigotry and suspicion in the United States?
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Did the ancient Israelites/Hebrews have any dramatic tradition? Did they ever write and perform plays?
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