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In Ancient Rome, 69 AD was known as the “Year of Four Emperors”. How did this political turmoil affect the daily life of an average citizen in the city of Rome?
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What, if any, vestiges of the Roman Empire endure until present day within the Vatican and the Roman Catholic Church?
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I recently learned that during WWII the US Navy collaborated with the Italian mafia to prevent dockworkers from going on strike. Can anybody here give more details on this? Was this collaboration effective?
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I’m reading a book about the American Revolution, and it says miners and sappers were allowed no quarter by the British and would be killed. Why did rules of war in the 1780s allow such harsh treatment of enemy military engineers?
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What is the general medical consensus of the suggested link between health risks and 9/11 first responders?
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I once heard a theory that many Americans are afraid of nuclear power because of “The Simpsons”, where town idiot Homer Simpson is the safety inspector in a nuclear plant seemingly always on the verge of meltdown. Is there any historical/sociological evidence to support this?
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