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Was getting away with crime during the medieval period extremely easy? With he lack of forensic evidence, investigative ability, and surveillance tools (cameras, microphones, etc); how did law enforcement deal with criminals who ran from the crime scene?	105
[Weird question] I've noticed that most great Soviet leaders were very short (Lenin - 5'5'', Stalin - 5'6'', Khrushchev - 5'3''). Coincidence or not? How were short men perceived in the USSR? Did Soviet culture somehow predispose shorter men to go into politics and public service?	105
The anarchist Peter Kropotkin posited that there was a "revolution of the communes" in the twelfth century. What would the perspective of modern medievalists be on this?	104
How to counter holocaust deniers?	104
Why was Hawaii removed from the list of UN territories to be decolonized?	104
How aware were the English of their Norman/Viking/Varangian heritage in the time of Shakespeare? Would the Viking sagas have been available? Would the layman know who you were referring to if you said Ragnar Lothbrok or an iteration of that name?	104
Where did the Slavs come from? How did they manage to spread out over so much of Eastern Europe?	104
Did the average viet kong soldier know/care about the american anti war movement during the Vietnam war?	104
Why is the area consisting of Massachusetts, Vermont, Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire and Rhode Island known as New England today? Why isn't somewhere settled earlier like Virginia or North Carolina considered part of it?	104
I have read that there was a third atomic bomb attack planned for Japan, why did the United States not go through with it?	104

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