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“The most valuable company in history was the the Dutch East India Company, with an adjusted value of ~$8,000,000,000,000.00” What did this wealth mean back then? The owners and executives couldn’t exactly log on to their bank accounts. What were the other stock metrics? P/E? Etc.
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In 1990 when Iraq invaded Kuwait they cited Kuwait slant drilling and stealing their oil as a reason for war. How true was this? Did Saddam Hussein ever present evidence of Kuwait’s alleged slant drilling?
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Were there any prominent contemporary anti-imperialists at any point in the Roman Empire's existence?
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I've just read article about Vikings where author stated that bathing and washing clothes was considered sinful amongst the contemporary Christians. Is this claim true? If so, do we have any idea where that line of thought could have developed from?
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Kropotkin says in The Conquest of Bread that: "The history of mankind, thus understood, does not offer, then, an argument against Communism. It appears, on the contrary, as a succession of endeavours to realize some sort of communist organization.." Would today's historians tend to agree with this?
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What is the role of USA in the military dictatorship that took place in Brazil from the 60s to the 80s?
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When the Civil War ended, how many (if any) plantation owners kept their slaves in violation of the law?
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