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The origins of translation conventions.

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Gerrard Winstanley, the Digger leader, frequently refers to the "waste lands" that he intends to farm. What does this refer to?

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Whatever happened to the study of rhetoric?

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What sort of organized crime was there in the US southeast during the early/mid twentieth century?

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Were the Ming and Qing courts actually unaware of the Satsuma invasion of the Ryukyus and subsequent Japanese incorporation of the islands as vassal states?

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What is the current consensus on "Indian trail trees"? Are they actually the result of human activity or just natural?

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What was the reason behind the mass Soviet deportations of the Chechens, Crimean Tatars and others along the southwest frontier? Did anti-Muslim sentiment play into it?

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Where did the Guild system develop, and how did it spread so effectively over Medieval Europe?

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How real and significant was the problem of grain hoarding during the French Revolution?

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What was the relation between the Baltic Crusades and Hanseatic League? How did the institutions of religious conquest become those of mercantile activity?

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The origins of translation conventions.	52
Gerrard Winstanley, the Digger leader, frequently refers to the "waste lands" that he intends to farm. What does this refer to?	52
Whatever happened to the study of rhetoric?	50
What sort of organized crime was there in the US southeast during the early/mid twentieth century?	50
Were the Ming and Qing courts actually unaware of the Satsuma invasion of the Ryukyus and subsequent Japanese incorporation of the islands as vassal states?	47
What is the current consensus on "Indian trail trees"? Are they actually the result of human activity or just natural?	47
What was the reason behind the mass Soviet deportations of the Chechens, Crimean Tatars and others along the southwest frontier? Did anti-Muslim sentiment play into it?	46
Where did the Guild system develop, and how did it spread so effectively over Medieval Europe?	45
How real and significant was the problem of grain hoarding during the French Revolution?	45
What was the relation between the Baltic Crusades and Hanseatic League? How did the institutions of religious conquest become those of mercantile activity?	45