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Listening to FDR's broadcast to reform the Supreme Court (add a new justice for every 70+-year old on the bench) I have two questions - why did this effort, right at the start of his 2nd term, fail, and what was the 'judicial' philosophy of the justices that opposed some New Deal efforts?	6
The Jacksonian democratic age saw an embrace of the mass white male vote, the strengthening of the man of the people at the expense of its representatives, the desire to end the appointing of judges and belief in Manifest Destiny. What was opposition to Jacksonians and what was their fate?	6
Is the phrase "So let it be written, so let it be done" from The Ten Commandments based on actual historical quotations from Biblical or Ancient Egyptian sources?	6
The Royal Navy outnumbered the German High Seas Fleet, forcing the Germans into a strategy of trying to engage with just a portion of the British fleet to sink it and avoid a general battle. How come the British didn't just simply force their way into where the German ships were with their numbers?	6
In the Age of Discovery, the only woman with a primary role in popular memory is Queen Isabella of Spain (the only one I can name in my own ignorance of the period). What other roles did women play in the Iberian naval expeditions of this era? What are their stories?	6
Christian & Jewish influence under Muslim rule in the Middle East in the Middle Ages	6
After the hydrogen bomb, what new goal were all those scientific resources placed towards creating? Or did scientists feel they reached the limits of explosive possibilities / usefulness?	6
Why did it take nearly 80 years for the United States of America to break apart? Is it an anomaly that the US states did not ultimately break off from one another within a couple decades, or did it build off other examples of federal-type nations?	6
Looking for information on Crown Prince Yusuf Izzettin Efendi of the Ottoman Empire at the outbreak of WWI and his apparent suicide in 1916.	6
How do we exactly know about the prehistoric Amber Road? What is the evidence that is used to establish it between the Black and Baltic Seas? And what must it have been like to travel along it?	6

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