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Joan of Arc was burned at the stake in 1431 and declared a martyr in 1456. How was this received in England, and what was the political context?
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The Muslim world saw a rise of “quranists” in the 20th century who rejected Hadith. They faced great persecution and even death. How did the practices of these people differ from ordinary Muslims, and why were they so controversial?
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I read that Muslim slave traders deliberately checked the expansion of Islam so they might have pagan preserves from which to gather slaves? Is this true, is there Islamic record of it?
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In 1808, the word “bourgeois” is identical to the word “burgher” or citizen. In 1848, Marx is using it to refer to a separate class which springs from the citizens and it has had this meaning ever since. What changed?
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In the 1990s, what induced people to join, respectively, the Crips or the Bloods? Did either group seriously hope to defeat the other?
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Scientology has a number of “secret doctrines,” including ones related to the alien king Xenu. What is the significance of these doctrines?
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