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Were there any famous criminals in ancient times equivalent to today's Al Capone, Pable Escobar, etc etc?

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Did significant numbers from Orthodox countries ever join in on Crusades called by the Pope?

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After John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Lincoln, he shouted, "Sic Semper Tyrannis." Did the Confederacy view Lincoln as a tyrant? If not, how did they see him?

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Has Volograd recovered to pre WWII industrial and population levels?

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What profanities and euphanisms from modern times existed back in the early 1900s and even earlier?

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It’s 10AD and I am a young male from a very rich Roman family. What is my relationship to my family’s slaves and how do I treat them?

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Was H.G. Wells's "The Time Machine" the first major work of fiction to use evolution as a plot point?

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The children's show "Horrible Histories", makes the claim that Victorian era children had names like "Okay" and "Toilet", If true, why were these bizarre names apparently common during the Victorian era?

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What event in American history is considered the water shed moment when the American public began to see himself as the leading political power of the world?

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Why is it that the Assyrian empire fell so hard that the Assyrian people never formed a country ever again?

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Were there any famous criminals in ancient times equivalent to today's Al Capone, Pable Escobar, etc etc?	78
Did significant numbers from Orthodox countries ever join in on Crusades called by the Pope?	78
After John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Lincoln, he shouted, "Sic Semper Tyrannis." Did the Confederacy view Lincoln as a tyrant? If not, how did they see him?	78
Has Volograd recovered to pre WWII industrial and population levels?	78
What profanities and euphanisms from modern times existed back in the early 1900s and even earlier?	78
It’s 10AD and I am a young male from a very rich Roman family. What is my relationship to my family’s slaves and how do I treat them?	77
Was H.G. Wells's "The Time Machine" the first major work of fiction to use evolution as a plot point?	77
The children's show "Horrible Histories", makes the claim that Victorian era children had names like "Okay" and "Toilet", If true, why were these bizarre names apparently common during the Victorian era?	77
What event in American history is considered the water shed moment when the American public began to see himself as the leading political power of the world?	77
Why is it that the Assyrian empire fell so hard that the Assyrian people never formed a country ever again?	77