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Were armed people allowed an audience with dignitaries e.g. during the Renaissance, and if so when did society change to screening people for weapons?

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Which of the communist movements that existed, whether or not they gained power, from the Russian revolution until the fall of the Berlin wall, would have been endorsed by Karl Marx, were he alive?

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So ... was the trebuchet the superior siege weapon, prior to the cannon?

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Prior to the invention of P.A. systems, how large a crowd could hear an orator and how was the speech conveyed to those out of hearing range?

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Why do you historians question the historicity of George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire accounts?

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Were armed people allowed an audience with dignitaries e.g. during the Renaissance, and if so when did society change to screening people for weapons?	3
Which of the communist movements that existed, whether or not they gained power, from the Russian revolution until the fall of the Berlin wall, would have been endorsed by Karl Marx, were he alive?	3
So ... was the trebuchet the superior siege weapon, prior to the cannon?	3
Prior to the invention of P.A. systems, how large a crowd could hear an orator and how was the speech conveyed to those out of hearing range?	3
Why do you historians question the historicity of George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire accounts?	0