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Bill Clinton has often said that his greatest foreign policy failure was inaction during the Rwandan Genocide. But at the time, was there any domestic pressure calling for US intervention or public debate about whether the US should intervene?
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How "populated" were the woods of medieval Europe? On what reality is the image of the secluded cabin in the middle of the forest based?
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In 1900 there were large, old, and well establish Jewish communities across the Middle East. Today these are basically all gone. What happened to them?
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During the Ming Dynasty, "Japanese pirates" (wokou) were a chronic problem. Do we have accounts of them from the Japanese perspective? How did they fit into contemporary Japanese society (eg were they sponsored by daimyo)?
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Timelines of women's rights frequently include gaining the right to own property. But there are plenty of accounts of women in the Middle Ages who owned and managed property. Was here a post-Medieval regression in women's rights or is something else going on?
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