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Prior to the digital age, how did U.S. stock traders verify that the stocks they were purchasing/receiving were valid and not forged and what precautions did listing companies take to reduce forgeries?
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Is there any evidence that the Norse settlers in North America may have spread disease to the natives? And if so, could these have caused sharp declines in the native population similar to that of later centuries?
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In the television show Vikings, various Medieval European courts and nobles are pictured as having a variety of rare or exotic animals such as monkeys and parrots. The leader of the Vikings is also shown petting both a rat and a python at one point. Are such portrayals historically accurate?
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Were all of the written historical artefacts of sub-Saharan Africa destroyed by western imperialists or were they simply not made?
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand's assassin, Gavrilo Princip, lived until 1918. What were his thoughts on the war, did he feel personally responsible, and did people at the time curse him for starting the conflict?
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Why did Stalin trust Hitler to not attack russia in the beginning of the war when he’d already known Hitler had violated the Munich agreement?
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Did the U.S. government and white Americans agree with the Nazis before, during, and after the war like this tweet claims?
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