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What are the similarities and differences between Fascism and "Feudalism"? And what do they have in common with absolute monarchy? Is centralism absolutely essential in all three?
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Did Wealth Only Come From Inheritance in Medieval Europe? Would It Have Been Possible For a Poor Person to Become Wealthy?
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The main plot in the 1984 movie "Footloose" starts when the local minister banned dancing, how prevalent were these type of laws in 1980's America?
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How well could Gaius Marius read? As well as a historian here? How well could a senator in his time read? How about a free man? Could they read out this text aloud?
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Just finished watching the film “The Negotiator” and am now wondering— has a hostage situation ever worked out in favor of the hostage-taker?
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In the trench stages of WW1, the Western front was supposedly a long line of trenches i between the North Sea and Switzerland. What did the opposite ends look like? How did soldiers fight there? What impracticalities were there from fighting next to the shore/to a neutral country's border?
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