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It's 1961, and I've got a picture of President John F. Kennedy on my wall next to a painting of Jesus. What's my deal?
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The Nazi-era Lebensborn were a plot device in Man in the High Castle. Were they really the product of a Nazi-sanctioned, marriage-free, blue-eyed, blond-haired baby drive? What happened to the babies? Did the unmarried pregnant women face scorn?
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Was Abraham Lincoln a good lawyer? Was he as effective at convincing juries using the same relentless logic and clarity displayed in political speeches such as his Peoria speech?
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Why did so much wealth accumulate in the Mediterranean's Renaissance trade hubs like Florence, Genoa, Venice, etc, when it apparently did not, to the same degree, in Classical trade hubs like Athens, Alexandria, Rome, etc?
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The Indus-Sarasvati civilization had roads constructed in geometric patterns, large cities, and bronze tools, but apparently no temples or sacred places, and no iconography or prayer sculptures. Did they have no conception of or belief in god? Was this unusual? Did they "believe" in anything?
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Why was Pope Gregory X unable to rally Europeans to assist the ailing Crusading States? Had there been some sort of shift that made further crusades less appealing?
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The Romani attack Harriet Smith in Jane Austen's "Emma," demanding money. Were many Romani roaming England in the early 19th century? Who were they, how did they get to England, and what were they up to?
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Socrates used philosophy to conclude that he knew nothing. Yet his students, Plato the Academic and Antisthenes the Cynic, went on to found philosophical schools that taught lot of "known things", both in terms of theory and practical living advice. How did they go from nothing to so many ideas?
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