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Robert Bork is widely believed to have fired Archibald Cox as a show of loyalty to Nixon during the Saturday Night Massacre. However, his predecessor, AG Elliot Richardson, apparently advised Bork to fire Cox to avoid destabilizing the government. What were Ruckelshaus's and Richardson's concerns?

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Should WW2 be split into two wars?

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How did President Jimmy Carter's blanket pardon of the draft-dodgers work?

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Why did the US Supreme Court sit a jury for Georgia v. Brailsford in 1792 instead of having a lower court address it first as with all other cases? Was it experimenting with different judicial concepts at the time?

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When the Southern states seceded to form the Confederacy, what were their expectations for the Union response, especially leading up to the Battle of Fort Sumter?

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Aboard the HMS Bounty, how did William Bligh's discipline compare to contemporary commanding officers?

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[Meta] What is the relationship between the fields of archaeology and history?

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How did Georgy Zhukov's fall from grace come about?

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Did B-17 test pilots only accept checklists because Boeing threatened to give their jobs to women if they refused?

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What was the French relationship with the USSR like after de Gaulle withdrew France from NATO's integrated command structure in 1966?

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Robert Bork is widely believed to have fired Archibald Cox as a show of loyalty to Nixon during the Saturday Night Massacre. However, his predecessor, AG Elliot Richardson, apparently advised Bork to fire Cox to avoid destabilizing the government. What were Ruckelshaus's and Richardson's concerns?	16
Should WW2 be split into two wars?	14
How did President Jimmy Carter's blanket pardon of the draft-dodgers work?	14
Why did the US Supreme Court sit a jury for Georgia v. Brailsford in 1792 instead of having a lower court address it first as with all other cases? Was it experimenting with different judicial concepts at the time?	13
When the Southern states seceded to form the Confederacy, what were their expectations for the Union response, especially leading up to the Battle of Fort Sumter?	12
Aboard the HMS Bounty, how did William Bligh's discipline compare to contemporary commanding officers?	12
[Meta] What is the relationship between the fields of archaeology and history?	11
How did Georgy Zhukov's fall from grace come about?	11
Did B-17 test pilots only accept checklists because Boeing threatened to give their jobs to women if they refused?	10
What was the French relationship with the USSR like after de Gaulle withdrew France from NATO's integrated command structure in 1966?	10