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Outside of the Muslim world, it appears alcohol prohibition only occurred in N. America and Scandinavia, and only in the early to mid 1900s. Why did these nations totally prohibit alcohol at around the same time, and re allow it at around the same time?

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During the American Civil War, the Union added a star to its flag twice, for Kansas in 1861, and for West Virginia in 1863. During the war, how common was it that the Union soldiers used an updated flag?

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Outside of the Muslim world, it appears alcohol prohibition only occurred in N. America and Scandinavia, and only in the early to mid 1900s. Why did these nations totally prohibit alcohol at around the same time, and re allow it at around the same time?	110
During the American Civil War, the Union added a star to its flag twice, for Kansas in 1861, and for West Virginia in 1863. During the war, how common was it that the Union soldiers used an updated flag?	8