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To get around food rationing during World War II, a black market for flour, sugar, meat, coffee, and other goods sprang up. Where were these black marketeers sourcing their goods from? Where did Americans shop for these otherwise-rationed foods? Did people think black market food was moral?
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Sulla thought the Roman Republic was broken and seized power in an attempt to fix it. How successful were his reforms?
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"Myths And Monsters," says that preindustrial man feared the sea because hardly anyone could swim - is there any truth to this?
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Were the natives of central and south America as unusually large and physically robust as those of North America?
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Andrew Jackson targeted the 2nd Bank Of The United States during his presidential campaign and won - did most people really care about the nation's central banking system?
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The Romans passed several laws against overeating and buying fancy foods. Were they effective? Were they ever enforced?
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The infantry of medieval armies were often not peasants with spears, but highly trained and well-armed urban militias. How eager to fight and warlike were these militias? Did they train frequently? How did they do on the battlefield?
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Women often face systems that label them responsible for crimes committed against them, like rape, and murder. In the west, legal systems don't do this, and our culture is moving further away from it. When and why did the west begin moving away from the blame-the-victim approach common elsewhere? NSFW
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