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Propagandists of the time liked to portray WW1 as a just war by virtuous democracies defending their own against corrupt, autocratic monarchies. I've heard on the internet that in the last couple years of the war, it came pretty close to being as black and white as that. Is this true?

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We know they existed in European and Middle Eastern manuscripts, but do any manuscripts from East, South, or Southeast Asia have palimpsests, or is it solely a Western phenomenon?

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What were the stereotypes of Scots in the Industrial Revolution and the Enlightenment?

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Were there States-within-States in the Ancient Near East like in modern times?

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Propagandists of the time liked to portray WW1 as a just war by virtuous democracies defending their own against corrupt, autocratic monarchies. I've heard on the internet that in the last couple years of the war, it came pretty close to being as black and white as that. Is this true?	13
We know they existed in European and Middle Eastern manuscripts, but do any manuscripts from East, South, or Southeast Asia have palimpsests, or is it solely a Western phenomenon?	9
What were the stereotypes of Scots in the Industrial Revolution and the Enlightenment?	5
Were there States-within-States in the Ancient Near East like in modern times?	3