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"In those days, "surgeons operated in blood-stiffened frock coats – the stiffer the coat, the prouder the busy surgeon", "pus was as inseparable from surgery as blood", and "Cleanliness was next to prudishness"" How would this make sense in the light of the miasma theory? Wouldnt everything reek?
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During the Korean War, both Seoul and Pyongyang were occupied by enemy forces for several months. What do we know about the different occupation policies for these two capitals? Were there attempts to set up aligned local governments, to prosecute enemies of the occupying regimes, etc?
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Is there any truth to Ivanhoe inspiring the use of military titles, and the idea of Chivalry, in the Antebellum South?
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In medieval feudalism, if you have a baron who's vassal to an earl, and the earl is vassal to a duke, does the duke have any authority over the baron?
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In "The Hunt for Red October," Soviet Captain Marko Ramius tells Jack Ryan that he read Ryan's book about Admiral Halsey and that Ryan's conclusions were "all wrong;" that "Halsey acted stupidly." Is Halsey a controversial commander in naval history? And if so, why?
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How did ancient people like the Romans reconcile their own morality with the ones exhibited by their own Gods? Such as with adultery, rape and incest? NSFW
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