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What exactly were the Red Lancers that Rudyard Kipling mentions in a few of his stories?

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What should I do with an old document

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How did the Greek democracy really work?

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What did it mean to be politically left wing in 1850?

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How easy was it to fake your identity, or steal someone else's identity, in the 19th Century?

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What ultimately led the Soviet Union to dissolve in 1991?

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It is 1830 in the American Deep South. I decide to shoot and kill a slave owned by a different man. What happens to me and what would the charge be?

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People today can’t fathom how things like cigarette smoking and asbestos were so ubiquitous in American society 50 years ago. Did Americans in the early 1900s feel the same way about anything that was similarly popular in the mid-1800s? (Other than slavery, of course)

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What is definitively know about the direct influence or lack thereof by Buddhism on Stoicism, Epicureanism, or Gnosticism during the Alexandrian and Roman contacts between the Near East and Hellenic/Roman worlds?

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Why did medieval executioners wear hoods?

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What exactly were the Red Lancers that Rudyard Kipling mentions in a few of his stories?	17
What should I do with an old document	17
How did the Greek democracy really work?	17
What did it mean to be politically left wing in 1850?	17
How easy was it to fake your identity, or steal someone else's identity, in the 19th Century?	17
What ultimately led the Soviet Union to dissolve in 1991?	17
It is 1830 in the American Deep South. I decide to shoot and kill a slave owned by a different man. What happens to me and what would the charge be?	17
People today can’t fathom how things like cigarette smoking and asbestos were so ubiquitous in American society 50 years ago. Did Americans in the early 1900s feel the same way about anything that was similarly popular in the mid-1800s? (Other than slavery, of course)	17
What is definitively know about the direct influence or lack thereof by Buddhism on Stoicism, Epicureanism, or Gnosticism during the Alexandrian and Roman contacts between the Near East and Hellenic/Roman worlds?	17
Why did medieval executioners wear hoods?	17