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In "All Quiet on the Western Front" the soldiers avoid using bayonets with saws on one side as soldiers who are captured with one are often executed on the spot, or even tortured for their use of the weapon. Were there other similar examples of weapons being avoided for their brutality?
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Napoleon: information about Parents, how they met, life before revolution, them joining the revolution. Sibling’s (where did Napoleon fit in birthday/age wise), what happened with his family when he left to go to school in France (scholarship Procured by his father), before he came home to visit?
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I understand that the radiation in Hiroshima had dispersed enough to make it livable after only a few years. If Russia and America had devastated each other with nuclear weapons during the Cold War, how long would those weapons have rendered different cities unlivable for, compared to the WW2 bombs?
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What exactly were the superpowers trying to acheive during Cold War, and by what measure is USSR considered the loser?
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Why is it that Dragons are found in almost all major civilizations through out history, yet many seem to have had no contact with each other, with Dragons being factually a myth?
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